Dance  Teacher Corrine Nagata joins the SFFS faculty with an extraordinary range of experience as a dance teacher. For eighteen years, she has been a dancer, teacher and choreographer with the Alvin Ailey American School of Dance, National Dance...
First Grade Teaching Assistant Alyssa has been working professionally with young people for more than eight years as both a preschool teacher and nanny. She is enthused and inspired by the diverse experiences and perspectives children bring to her...
Learning Specialist (Middle School) Before joining the SFFS community, Mitch worked with elementary, middle, and high school students as a classroom teacher, tutor and educational therapist. Mitch has a B.A. in American Studies from Yale, a teaching...
Spanish Teacher - 6th/7th Grade Ashley was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan, where she majored in Spanish. Studying abroad in Sevilla, Spain, inspired a love of the language and culture, and led to her...
Third Grade Teacher A Speech and Communications graduate of San Francisco State University, Rich began his work as an educator as the coordinator of the after-school program at Schools of the Sacred Heart, and continued as third grade teacher at...
Controller Chris Oey was raised in Indonesia and Singapore, and earned his B.A. in Economics (with an emphasis in Accounting) in Indonesia. He has worked for more than sixteen years in the financial and accounting profession and is experienced in...
Board of Trustees Ellen Pack grew up in New York and earned her BA and MBA from Columbia University with a period in between working in the economic studies program at Brookings in Washington, DC.  After business school, she moved to the Bay Area...
Board of Trustees Vicki Penny was raised in San Diego, California. She received a BA in Environmental Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  She has spend the over 20 years working in development for nonprofit organizations like the...
Seventh Grade Humanities Teacher Jodi brought twenty years of experience as an educator to San Francisco Friends School where she was part of our founding team of Middle School educators. Prior to joining SFFS, she served as Middle School Dean of...
Fourth Grade Teacher Jeff, a pioneering member of the fourth grade team, was born in the Panama Canal Zone and moved twenty times before the age of 18 due to his father’s career in the U.S. Army and at West Point. He developed an interest in...
Katherine Preston Mental Health Consultant Katherine Preston joined our Developmental Support in the spring of 2010. She collaborates closely with teachers, advisors, learning support staff and parents. Katherine maintains a private practice in San...
Shannon K'doah Range Director of Communications Shannon K’doah Range has an unusual name and an unusual career. Before joining us at SFFS this summer, he taught soccer in South Africa, completed doctoral studies in the politics of American...
Academic Dean Gwen, who has worked for 18 years as an educator, came to SFFS in 2008. She was a founding middle school teacher at Prospect Sierra School, where she served as a humanities teacher, curriculum coordinator, advisor, schedule designer,...
Board of Trustees Alan Robin is a partner of Shartsis Friese, LLP, a San Francisco law firm, where he specializes in real estate, investment and corporate matters in the United States and in China. Alan's commitment to Quaker education began as an...
Abby Rovner High School Transition Coordinator Abby comes to SFFS directly from the Mission-based “I Have A Dream” Foundation of San Francisco. Since its inception more than a decade ago, Abby served as its Executive Director. Abby taught...
Ed Ryan Facilities Director Ed comes to SFFS with almost 20 years of construction and construction management experience. Ed has a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Rutgers University in New Jersey as well as numerous construction certifications....
Board of Trustees Mark Sachleben earned AB and BS degrees from Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Stanford University. He is currently COO at New Relic, Inc., a start-up software company. Prior to joining New Relic, Mark was Vice President of...
Middle School Head Andrew Salverda joined the SFFS team in 2008 with more than fifteen years of middle school teaching, coaching, and administrative experience. For eleven years, he worked at the Nueva School in many roles: teaching humanities,...
Director of Community Engagement Guybe joined SFFS in 2009 from the Head-Royce School where he was the Dean of Students in the high school. Over his 15 years in education, his focus has always been to expand and enhance learning beyond the...
Fifth Grade Teacher A Minnesota native, Chris graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in English and Theatre, and launched his career as a freelance film writer, actor, director and producer here in the Bay Area. In addition, he wrote...