Winnie Stern ā14
Director
Winnie assumed the directorship of our Elementary program in 2022. After having completed taking her class of students from first through eighth grade at Green Meadow Waldorf School in 2021, she currently teaches history in Green Meadow’s high school. A former substitute teacher, Winnie initially became interested in exploring the foundations and goals of education through a philosophical lens, and discovered Waldorf education while seeking to answer the question āWhat kind of education helps to create a happy and healthy human being?ā She holds a double-major BA in philosophy and education from Brooklyn College, an MA in philosophy and education from Columbia University Teachers College, a NYS teaching license in grades 1-6 education, and her Waldorf teacher certification from Sunbridge Institute.
Rebecca Hays Nelson ā07
Incoming Director
Rebecca currently teaches eighth grade at the Waldorf School of New Orleans, where she has taught since 2010 and is a middle school specialist. Prior to joining that school’s faculty, she took a class from sixth-eighth grade at Green Meadow Waldorf School. In recent years, Rebecca has also been an instructor in and leading force behind Sunbridge’s Summer Series middle school grades courses. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, where she majored in English and anthropology, Rebecca discovered Waldorf education while studying Mayan archaeology at Tulane University, from which she earned an MA in anthropology. She also holds an MSEd in Waldorf elementary education from Sunbridge College.
Jana Hawley
Core Faculty; Music and Chorus, Inner Development
Jana began teaching in Sunbridgeās Elementary Teacher Education program in 2002 and directed the program from 2009-2022; she is also on the faculty of our Early Childhood program. Since 2006, Jana has also been on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School, where she has been a class teacher, music teacher, Lower School chair,Ā Ā member of the GMWS Teacher Development Committee, and co-chair of the Festival Committee. Previously, she spent 14 years on the faculty of the Whidbey Island Waldorf School, teaching music and main lessons.
Jana has been a visiting faculty member at several Waldorf teacher training institutes in the US as wellĀ as at institutes abroad, including China and Australia. She has led workshops in movement, singing, and composition, and is a contributor toĀ The Mood of the Fifth: A Musical Approach to Early Childhood,Ā a WECAN publication.Ā Jana earned her BFA in Music from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, and her MSEd in Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education from Sunbridge College.
Stephen K. Sagarin
Core Faculty; Education, Fine Art, Color Theory, School Governance, Inner Development
Steve, who has been teaching at Sunbridge since 2000, founded and directs our High School Teacher Education program and is also co-founder and faculty chair at the Berkshire Waldorf High School, where he teaches history and art. He is also a former teacher and administrator at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School and the Waldorf School of Garden City, the high school from which he graduated. From 2019-23, he served as a trustee on the Sunbridge Board. Steve has taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York. He is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; the author of The History of Waldorf Education in the United States: Past, Present and Future; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration.Ā Steve has a PhD in history from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, and a bachelorās degree in art history, with a certificate of proficiency in fine art, from Princeton University.
Brigida Baldszun
Eurythmy
An independent working eurythmist and therapeutic eurythmist, Brigida was born and educated in Europe, where she began her career. She has taught eurythmy in Waldorf schools in Europe, the US, South Africa, India, China, and Russia. She currently teaches on the East Coast where she also performs, both as a soloist and with a eurythmy ensemble. In addition to holding a BA in performing arts from the University of Oslo, Brigida earned diplomas in eurythmy and eurythmy therapy from the Goetheanum in Dornach and a certificate in pedagogical eurythmy from Stuttgart Waldorf Teacher Training.
Will Crane
Spacial Dynamics
Following a 30-year career at Green Meadow Waldorf School as a class teacher (1986-1991) and as Director of Physical Education and Athletics (1991-2016), Will is broadening the spectrum of his work in movement education to meet the growing needs of our time. His current endeavors include bringing Spacial DynamicsĀ® movement to complement adult educationĀ atĀ Sunbridge as well as at the Fiber Craft Studioās Applied Arts program, āUncovering the Voiceā (Werbec singing/voice training), and the Christian Community Seminary, among others. He also works with individual clients in movement therapy, is a teacher and movement therapist at the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge, NY, and is a long-time contributor to the trainings at the Spacial Dynamics Institute. As a professional movement educator, Will brings his skills in mentoring and consulting to help developing teachers in Waldorf schools worldwide. HeĀ received his Foundation Year education and teacher training at Rudolf Steiner College.
Elizabeth Doshi
Language Arts
Elizabeth is a faculty member at the Ashwood Waldorf School in Rockport, Maine, where she has taught grade one for the last five years, either as a stand alone class or a combined grades one and two class. She is also a Sunbridge Summer Series Grades instructor. Before coming to Ashwood, Elizabeth was a grades three-six class teacher at Cape Ann Waldorf School (now The Waldorf School of Moraine Farm), taught grades two, three, and four at the Lexington Waldorf School, assisted in grade four at Pine Hill Waldorf School, and, at the Waldorf Steiner School in Singapore, taught parent-child classes, parent education workshops, and enrichment for grade one. She completed her training at Antioch New England Graduate School
Elizabeth Hall
Language Arts, Humanities
Liz is the eighth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the schoolās Collegium and the Teacher Development Committee. Prior to joining the Green Meadow faculty, she was a class teacher and lower school chair at the Waldorf School of Baltimore. Liz is a longtime member of the Sunbridge Elementary faculty and also teaches anthroposophical studies in our Early Childhood program. She holds a BA from Earlham College, where she double-majored in English and Spanish and minored in Art History; an MA in Education and Waldorf Certificate 1-8 from Antioch New England Graduate School; NH certification 1-6; and a Certificate of Curative Education from Camphill Special Schools, Inc.
Mary Lynn Hetsko
Handwork
Mary Lynn is the lower school handwork teacher at NYC’s Rudolf Steiner School, where she has been a member ofĀ the faculty since 2009Ā and sits on the College of Teachers. Prior to that, she taught handwork for several years at Green Meadow Waldorf School. Mary Lynn has also taught handwork workshops for the Fiber Craft Studio and at AWSNA conferences. SheĀ holds a certificate in Applied Arts from Sunbridge College.
Kemal Lowenthal
Woodwork
Kemal teaches woodwork and clay in the middle school and applied arts in the high school at Green Meadow Waldorf School, the school from which he graduated and where he has taught since 2017. Prior to coming to Green Meadow, he was on the faculty ofĀ the Maine Coast Waldorf School for five years, where he served as the elementary faculty chair and sat on the Leadership Committee and the College of Teachers. Kemal’s subjects have also included high school math, literature, art, 6th grade geology, 7th grade algebra, and drama. He holds a BFA in ceramics and sculpture, with a minor in art history, from the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MEd in Waldorf elementary education from Antioch University of New England.
Jennifer Kleinbach
Art of Speech
Jennifer is a eurythmist and speech artist. She currently teaches the art of speech (also known as āSpeech Formationā or āCreative Speechā) in the Eurythmy Spring Valley School of Eurythmy and in part-time programs at Threefold Educational Foundation. She also performs with the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble.
Adola McWilliam
Remedial Education
A leading figure in the Camphill movement, Adola co-founded the Ita Wegman Association and Glenora Farm Camphill Community in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1984; she remains a curative teacher there today. Adola was educated atĀ Amsterdams Lyceum, Institution Sevigne, and Camphill Seminar.
Mac Mead
Gardening
Mac has been the director of the Pfeiffer Center since 2007. HeĀ has farmed and gardened biodynamically for more than thirty years, working with the land on every scale from hand work to field-scale vegetables, tending an orchard to managing dairy cows. HeĀ was the resident farmer at the Fellowship Communityās Duryea Farm from 1997 until 2005 and a co-worker at the Camphill Village in Copake, NY, from 1972 to 1974, where he did therapeutic community work and also taught nature and games at the fledgling Waldorf school there. As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, MacĀ helped start the third grade farming block atĀ Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Centerās public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson. MacĀ graduated from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania with a degree in psychology.
Tommi Sue Morgan
Circle Work; Language Arts; Science
Tommi is a longtime Waldorf educator and teacher trainer who has been teaching in Sunbridge’s Elementary program for over a decade. She is a former faculty member at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she served as a grades teacher between 1997 and 2007 and then a middle school block teacher. She was also on the faculty at Sound Circle Teacher Training and formerly directed Waldorf teacher training in Xi’an China. She travels widely, teaching main lesson blocks, mentoring teachers, and stepping in as a long-term substitute. Tommi studied at the University of Washington where she received a BA in English, a Washington State teaching certificate, and an MAEd; she also attended Waldorf teacher training at Rudolf Steiner College.