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Jadi Taveras — Dean of Multicultural Education Jadi is a graduate of Kimball Union Academy and went on to earn a B.A. in Political Science from Siena College. He has a M.A. in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management from the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT. He worked as the World Studies Program Manager at Marlboro College for one year and has been at the Putney School for three years where he was the Assistant Dean of Students/Director of Diversity and Cultural Exchanges. He conducted training on issues of implicit bias, managed student affinity groups, trained students in leading and facilitating workshops, advised the social justice curriculum for senior electives, and coordinated overseas programs. He teaches a section of Junior English and is the assistant girls’ Varsity basketball coach. Jed Wartman — Dean of Students Jed graduated from Phillips Andover and went on to earn a B.A. in Spanish with a minor in Psychology from Bowdoin College. He has a M. Ed. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He worked at Bowdoin College as the Assistant Director of Residential Life for three years, at Wheelock College as the
Director of Residential Life for one year, at M.I.T. as the Assistant Dean for Student Activities for three years, and at Colby College for the past six years as Associate Dean of Students and Director of Campus Life, Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director of Campus Life, and Senior Associate Dean of Students. He has experience in developing, delivering, and facilitating a range of activities to engage students, foster community, develop leadership skills, improve performance of groups and teams, and increase organizational effectiveness. In addition to his role as Dean of Students, he will assist in coaching JV boys’ lacrosse. Tom Woessner — English Tom graduated from Connecticut College with a B.A. in History and a double minor in Economics and Public Policy and he captained the lacrosse team. Since his graduation he has worked in sales, has been an instructor at the Tenacity program in Boston, serving as a tutor, mentor, and coach to Boston Public School students, and this past spring worked as the head JV lacrosse coach at Roxbury Latin. He teaches freshman and sophomore English, coach instructional hockey, and assist coaching varsity boys’ lacrosse.
Kristen Donahue — Spanish Kristen received her B.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College and her M. Ed. in Elementary Education from Boston University. She also earned a Masters of Spanish Language and Culture from the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. She was an English as a second language instructor at the Colorado Mountain College, taught Spanish at the Tower School for six years, and presently is a part time preschool Spanish teacher at the Newburyport Montessori School. She is teaching three sections of Spanish. Kristen lives with her husband and three children in Newburyport. Tim Winslow ‘10 — Intern, Dean of Students Office Tim is an alumnus of The Governor’s Academy and graduated from Widener University with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology. Since his graduation he has worked in sales, managed a farm, been a lacrosse skills coach, served as the head coach for several Boston Laxachusetts Lacrosse teams, and assisted coaching the Govs Varsity boys’ lacrosse team. Tim works as an intern for the Dean of Students’ office, is an assistant for JV football and JV boys’ hockey, and will be the head coach for varsity boys’ lacrosse.
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