Core Faculty
Our Core Faculty constitutes one of the two governing bodies of the school; the other is the Board of Trustees. Members of the Core Faculty meet weekly, support day-to-day operation of the school, and serve as advisers to our students.
Samantha Eliot Stier has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BA in Film from California State University Long Beach. She taught English as a second language at an academy in Los Angeles, California, and at a bilingual high school in Madrid, Spain. Her short stories have been published in several literary journals and magazines, and in 2014 a selection of her stories was featured as part of the New Short Fiction Series, LA’s longest running spoken-word series. She was part of the first ever class at Berkshire Waldorf High School and is a Waldorf graduate. In addition to teaching English and serving as Admissions Director, she teaches several literature and history seminars, as well as the Globe and Debate electives. https://samanthastier.com/
Susan Bilodeau has an MA in Mathematics Education from Lesley University and a BS in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also studied physics, chemistry, and engineering. She has taught mathematics in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District since 2009, and she holds four different teaching licenses in the State of Massachusetts. Ms. Bilodeau teaches two sections of math, as well as physics, chemistry, and the robotics elective.
Genève Brossard has a Ph.D. in art practice from Goldsmiths College, University of London; an MA in sculpture from Pratt Institute; an MA in art education from Brooklyn College; and a BA in fine art from Mt. Holyoke College. Ms. Brossard has taught and developed art curricula for the New York City Department of Education and many cultural organizations, as well as teaching in undergraduate and graduate art education and fine art programs internationally. She is a practicing artist, with work in exhibitions in London (U.K), Florence and Assisi (Italy), NYC, Mexico City, and locally in Brattleboro, VT and Great Barrington. In addition to art, Ms. Brossard is offering Boxing as an after-school elective. She is a two-time Golden Gloves New York State Boxing Champion and former athlete on the USA Boxing Team, with over a decade of international competition experience.
Julia Nuñez earned her B.A. in French, with a minor in Spanish, from Wichita State University, Kansas. She did graduate work in French at Middlebury College, in Spanish at Hunter College, studied in Morelia, Mexico, and was in a doctoral program in French and Linguistics at Georgetown University. She received her Waldorf teacher training certification from Emerson College, England and taught French at Michael Hall School. She also taught Spanish at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York. She is a founder of the Berkshire Waldorf High School, taught for us for our first six years, and has now returned after eight years from The Waldorf School of San Diego where she was a founder and the lead teacher of the high school. There she taught French, Spanish, humanities main lessons, dance and led the community service programs.
Sarah Blexrud has a B.A. in English Literature from The Colorado College, an M.A.T. from Queens University of Charlotte, NC, and a Sixth Year degree in Educational Leadership from Central Connecticut State University. Ms. Blexrud has taught English, math, and drama, in high school and in middle school, in Massachusetts and in Connecticut, including in Torrington, Darien, New Canaan, and Cornwall. She has also worked at Canyon Ranch and as a ski instructor.
Amy Inglis obtained a B.A. in Studio Arts from Florida Southern College. She completed an Americorps program working at Camphill California and has been a dorm parent and teacher at High Mowing School in New Hampshire. Amy is founder of Art Oasis Gallery, a collection of anthroposophical paintings, and she has a full-time wedding photography business, Avida Love Photography. Amy has also taught photography at her alma mater, Miss Hall’s School. https://avidalove.com/
Visiting Faculty
The Berkshire Waldorf High School has an extensive visiting faculty, specialists in their fields, who help to create a big world of experiences for our students.
Guy Nordoff completed his K-12 Waldorf Education at High Mowing School in New Hampshire. His art studies include the Goetheanum Painting Training in Dornach, Switzerland, and training with Frau Doctor Hauschka in art therapy. To complete his credentials as an art therapist, Mr. Nordoff worked for two years at Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, a community hospital in Germany. This training included breakthrough work with Herr Reichart in the therapeutic use of sculpture with psychiatric patients. Early in his career, he was an art teacher at a Camphill Village in South Africa.
Peter Elliston majored in history at Pomona College, graduated from Georgetown Law School, and worked for Legal Aid in New Mexico, before buying and managing a small bookstore in Albuquerque, NM. Ten years later, he attended Emerson College in England, leading to further study in eurythmy, which he completed in Spring Valley, NY. He taught grades 6 through 8 at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School and then became a full-time high school teacher at the Hawthorne Valley School through 2005. Mr. Elliston continues to teach history and U.S. Constitution at our school and at the Hawthorne Valley School.
Staff
Samantha Eliot Stier has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BA in Film from California State University Long Beach. She taught English as a second language at an academy in Los Angeles, California, and at a bilingual high school in Madrid, Spain. Her short stories have been published in several literary journals and magazines, and in 2014 a selection of her stories was featured as part of the New Short Fiction Series, LA’s longest running spoken-word series. She was part of the first ever class at Berkshire Waldorf High School and is a Waldorf graduate. In addition to teaching English and serving as Admissions Director, she teaches several literature and history seminars, as well as the Globe and Debate electives. https://samanthastier.com/
Sarah Blexrud has a B.A. in English Literature from The Colorado College, an M.A.T. from Queens University of Charlotte, NC, and a Sixth Year degree in Educational Leadership from Central Connecticut State University. Ms. Blexrud has taught English, math, and drama, in high school and in middle school, in Massachusetts and in Connecticut, including in Torrington, Darien, New Canaan, and Cornwall. She has also worked at Canyon Ranch and as a ski instructor.