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GARMAN
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SKRZYPEK
KLEINMAN
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LUCAS
SHELLEY
JACKSON
DANOWSKI
LIÈVANO-BINFORD
GUITY
New Faces at Friends FACULTY, STAFF & TRUSTEES
ADMINISTRATION Cassandra Malloy, Assistant to the Head of School, joins us from Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, where she served as an executive assistant. Prior to that she served in a similar capacity for the Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ashley Principe (B.A., Sewanee: The University of the South; M.E., Vanderbilt University), Director of Development, joins us from Gilman School, where she served most recently as Associate Director of Development.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES Jessica Garman (B.A., Goucher College; M.L.S. University of Maryland), Upper School Librarian, joins us from 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based educational nonprofit organization, where she tutored and led after-school writing workshops.
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Frederic Skrzypek (Bachelor of Philosophy, M.A., University of Paris XII), Upper School Technology Coordinator and French teacher, joins us from Francis Parker School in San Diego, Calif., where he chaired the Middle School Technology Committee.
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LOWER SCHOOL Eric Danowski (B.A., University of San Francisco), Pre-Primary associate teacher, joins us from Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School in Washington, D.C., where he served as an assistant educator in the school’s pre-kindergarten, preschool and after-care programs.
Heidi Bichler-Harris (B.A., Brock University), Development Services and Prospect Research Manager, joins us from the Washington, D.C.-based Global Fund for Children, where she served as the database and research manager.
Linar Etemadi-Cusic (B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M. Ed., University of Pittsburgh), first grade homeroom teacher, joins Friends from Montgomery County Public Schools, where she served as a substitute teacher.
Jenna Jackson (B.F.A., University of Florida), Development Office Associate, joins us from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she designed curriculum for the developmental playroom. She also spent two years serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia.
Michelle Feiss (B.A., M.A., Notre Dame of Maryland University), fifth grade teacher, joins us from Kowloon Junior School in Hong Kong, where she was the Year 4 classroom teacher.
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Safina Kleinman (B.A., Macaulay Honors College; 90-hour child-care certificate, Howard Community College), Lower School Teaching Fellow, has served Friends as a frequent Lower School substitute.
Gillian Lucas (B.A, M.A.T., Goucher College), Pre-First Associate, brings more than 12 years of experience as a kindergarten and pre-first teacher, respectively, at Glenelg and Calvert Schools. Caren Shelley (B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art), Lower School Art assistant teacher, joins us from Legacy School in Eldersburg, Md., where she taught visual arts to grades 1-8.
UPPER SCHOOL Dahira Lièvano-Binford ’81 (B.A., Franklin & Marshall College), Upper School Spanish teacher, is a longtime substitute teacher at Friends and Roland Park Country Schools. Niquiche Guity (B.S., Ph.D., SUNYAlbany), Upper School Biology teacher, joins us from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, where she served as a research associate in oncology with an emphasis on blood, colorectal, and prostate cancer. She was also adjunct faculty at Loyola University of Maryland and University of Phoenix.
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