Facilities Staff Ramiro is a long-time San Francisco transplant from the land of mariachi music, Jalisco, Mexico. He was raised on a ranch outside the municipality of San Juan de los Lagos and moved to the United States in 1983. Ramiro spent twenty...
Board of Trustees Christine Hoang was born in Dalat, Vietnam and, at the age of four, immigrated to the United States. She was raised in San Jose and later attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and law school at UC...
Head of School The daughter of a British Quaker physician and a Danish musician, Cathy was born in London and raised in upstate New York.  She received her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and began her teaching career at...
Technical Support Specialist Michael joined SFFS in 2008, coming from Philadelphia. Previous to his time at SFFS, Michael worked in higher education, providing technical support to multi-media, digital photography, video, music, and design students...
Fourth Grade Teacher In 2005, Chris served as a second grade teaching assistant at Friends School but felt the need to spread his wings. He headed to Aurora, Colorado where he completed his teaching credential and B.A. in Sociology at Colorado...
Music Teacher Kent joins San Francisco Friends School performing arts team with over 20 years of music teaching and administrative experiences from Lincoln Unified School District in Stockton, Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, The Park School...
Board of Trustees Harold (Koof) Kalkstein is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he majored in Economics and Political Science, and of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford where he received his MBA. He is also a graduate of Greene Street...
First Grade Teacher Erin Kendrew was born and raised in New Zealand, graduating with her B.A. in English and History from Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She went on to receive her teaching diploma, and launched her career...
Physical Education Teacher The second of four children, Greta was born and raised in Santa Cruz in a family of educators. Her father, a professor of philosophy, and her mother, a literature and poetry teacher, run a nonprofit in Tanzania when they...
Fifth and Seventh Grade Math/Science Teacher Saber Khan joined the SFFS staff in the fall of 2009 as a middle school science specialist, teaching fifth and seventh graders and helping SFFS build and outfit our new science laboratories. Originally...
Board of Trustees Stuart Kogod was raised near Washington DC, where he attended the Sidwell Friends School from grades K - 12. He earned a BA in History from the University of Vermont before moving to San Francisco. He has spent the last fifteen...
Fourth Grade Teaching Assistant A Korean-American, Christine grew up as the youngest of three girls in Santa Monica, CA. She attended Boston University where she earned a B.S. in communication with a minor in psychology. Christine moved to San...
Travis Lee Second Grade Teaching Assistant Travis was born and raised in Oakland, California, attending Redwood Heights Elementary, Bret Hart Middle School, and Skyline High School. He played soccer in Oakland’s Jack London soccer club for ten...
Board of Trustees Alan Lessik is Executive Director of Civicorps Schools in Oakland. Previously he worked with a number of educational non-profits and institutions, including San Francisco School Volunteers, Community School for Music and Arts, UCSF...
Seventh and Eighth Grade Math Teacher David grew up in Southern California always moving - playing soccer, swimming and running. After graduating from Pomona College, he escaped to the Bay Area where he studied Math Education at Stanford. He has...
Educational Specialist Helene received her certificate in Educational Therapy at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed training as a Slingerland specialist. She has served as a Learning Specialist at the Nueva School and supported...
Sixth Grade Math and Science Teacher Tracie grew up in New York and went to college at the University of Virginia. Although she started off as a math major at the university, she quickly turned that into a math minor and pursued her passion for...
Board of Trustees Patty McCormac grew up just outside of Athens, Greece, and then came to the US to earn a BA from Stanford University and then a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco.   Throughout her career as an RN...
Physical Education Teacher Lisa McEachron joined the SFFS staff in 2009 after a hiatus in her career as a physical education teacher. Lisa originally taught P.E. at Katherine Delmar Burke School in the mid-1990s for three years. Previous to that,...
Second Grade Teacher Ilsa has taught grades K through 3rd in both public and private schools during her seventeen years as an educator. Ilsa holds a BA in Applied Design and a Masters in Education. Ilsa has also worked on content for LeapPad, taught...