Afternoon/Evening Front Desk Clerk Laizu comes to SFFS with over nine years of customer service experience. Laizu was born and raised in Narsingdi, Bangladesh, where she graduated from an all-girls’ high school with an emphasis in science, and...
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Spanish Teacher Luz grew up in Argentina where she studied psychology in communication and received her degree in education from the College of Italian Culture in Buenos Aires. Over the next ten years, she taught elementary-aged students in an array...
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Lower School Art Teacher Caren’s family lived in Connecticut, Georgia, Texas, New Jersey and Maryland before settling in the Bay Area in 1972. Caren attended Katherine Delmar Burke School and graduated from The Urban School, deepening her...
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Instrumental Music Teacher Garth is entering his fourth year teaching the Friends school. In that time he has built the instrumental program music to include an orchestra and world music ensemble in every grade of the middle school, a middle school...
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Lower School Head Jennifer Arnest grew up in Baltimore, where she and her two brothers attended Baltimore Friends School. Jennifer’s mother was a teacher, and Jen felt like a “school person” from her earliest years. Jennifer brings twenty...
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Spanish Teacher Originally from El Salvador, Ester became a San Franciscan at age four. After attending public schools in the city, she attended San Francisco State University, earning a B.A. degree in both Liberal Studies and Spanish. At age...
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Second Grade Teacher Zach came to SFFS in 2007 after earning his teaching credential through the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute. He joined SFFS as a fourth grade teaching assistant and now teaches second grade. This year will be Zach’s...
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Director of Admissions Yvette came to San Francisco Friends School as part of its founding staff with experience as an office manager and conferencing coordinator at The WELL, an online discussion community. She studied classical violin at the...
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Sixth and Seventh Grade Math/Science Teacher Diali Bose-Roy joined the SFFS team after completing her Master’s in Education Leadership at Columbia. The daughter of a nuclear engineer and a civil engineer, Diali grew up just outside of Los...
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Kindergarten Teacher Noah joined the Friends School team in 2003 after teaching for three years in the Riverside Unified School District in southern California and at Jump Academy, a charter school in San Francisco. Noah received his B.A. in Early...
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Kindergarten Teacher A native of Indiana, Shawn received her BA in Early Childhood Education from DePaul University in Chicago. Shawn has taught at the San Francisco School, Pacific Primary, Marin Country Day School and Windrush School in the East...
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Eighth Grade Humanities Teacher Sabrina joined the original SFFS 8th grade team after nine years of teaching middle school at The Town School in New York City. In her time at Town, Sabrina taught and created curriculum for social studies and...
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Fifth and Eighth Grade Spanish Teacher Emma has had a passion for the Spanish language ever since she discovered it in high school. She has spent time in Spain, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and the Dominican Republic and has studied abroad in...
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Drama Teacher Jon started acting early - he fondly remembers performing at the Pacific Yearly Meeting of Friends while growing up in a Quaker family. Jon has performed Shakespeare in Hungary and Kafka in Slovakia, taught drama in Tennessee,...
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Administrative Assistant Brandelyn is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained a B.A. in English. Prior to working at SFFS, Brandelyn worked in education through BUILD, a nonprofit in Oakland, and Bret Harte Middle...
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Chapman, Paul Board of Trustees Paul Chapman is the executive director of Inverness Associates, an educational consulting firm that supports schools in sustainability, strategic planning, and effective management. He is especially interested in...
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Seventh and Eighth Grade Science Teacher Anil has been interested in physical and theoretical world ever since he started peering through a telescope at eight years old. Born in London to parents who emigrated from Punjab, India, Anil studied...
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Board of Trustees Shannon Cogen grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. After clerking for the Hon. Amalya L. Kearse on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Shannon...
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Athletic Director/P.E. Teacher Mick brings more than ten years of coaching and teaching experience to SFFS. He worked as a coach, P.E. instructor and Athletic Director at the San Francisco Waldorf School and as the Youth Athletic Program...
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Drama Teacher Tracy was born and raised in Britain and attended the Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset. She came to college in the United States and received her B.S. in Early Childhood Education from the University of Vermont. Following...
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