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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Front Desk Clerk Anna is a graduate student at the University of San Francisco, working toward a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. She is originally from Iowa. She has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from San Francisco...
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Janitor Eswin “Omar” Cotom was born and raised in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, along with his five brothers and sisters. After graduating with a technical degree as a lathe operator, Omar was married, and he and his wife welcomed their first...
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Janitor Gloria was born and raised in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala where she married and started a family with Eswin Omar. She joined her husband in San Francisco five years ago and promptly began helping him with his janitorial work at Live Oak School...
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Sixth Grade Humanities Teacher Kristen Daniel brought nine years of teaching experience to our founding sixth grade team. She attended Brown University and jumped immediately into the classroom at Summit Middle School to fulfill her New Jersey...
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Accounting Maria has B.S. in Psychology from university in the Philippines, where she grew up. Maria came to SFFS with 17 years working in accounting, conflict/records management, and business services. She also served for five years as an air...
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Developmental Support Coordinator, Learning Specialist (Grades K-4) Frances joined the SFFS team as a consulting learning specialist in 2008, and moved into her current role as developmental support services coordinator and learning specialist in...
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Board of Trustees Brian Elliott grew up in Illinois and earned his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Brian worked for Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Singapore and San Francisco...
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Fifth and Sixth Grade Humanities Teacher A native San Franciscan from Noe Valley, Evelyn has three degrees from UC Berkeley: a B.A. in Anthropology and Economics, and a Master’s in Business Administration. She spent nearly decade as a business...
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Third Grade Teaching Assistant Sarah Fox was born and raised in a family of ten in southern California. As a child she was a jock - playing soccer and Little League and later joining Palos Verdes Peninsula High School soccer, softball and track and...
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Middle School Teaching Assistant Don Frazier joined the SFFS team in 2008. He has a long interest in animation, graphic arts and music, and graduated with his BS in Media Arts and Animation from the Art Institute of California-San Francisco in 2009....
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