Faculty & Staff

Stephen Sagarin, Ph.D., received his doctorate in U.S. History from Columbia University and his B.A. in Art History and Fine Art from Princeton University. He is a graduate of the Waldorf School of Garden City, NY, where he taught for 12 years before moving to Massachusetts. He is Associate Professor in Waldorf Teacher Education at Sunbridge Institute and former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education. He has taught at Teachers College, NY, the City University of New York, NY, and Berkshire Community College, MA. His blog is called “What is Education?” Dr. Sagarin’s most recent book is The Story of Waldorf Education in the United States: Past, Present, and Future.

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.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Orenstein, life science, art, has a degree in botany, ethnobotany, and botanical illustration from Goddard College. She also studied classics, Abrahamic religions, and art history at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since returning to the Berkshires, she has worked with local organizations on environmental education programs, volunteered with the Sheffield Contra Dance, and produced swing dances. Ms. Orenstein is also a proud member of Berkshire Waldorf High School’s Class of 2010.

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 all levels of English, she teaches literature and history seminars, and the Globe and Debate electives. https://samanthastier.com/

Ursula Wirth is a graduate of the Munich Rudolf Steiner School. She worked as a librarian and research assistant at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she also taught German for Siemens, Ltd. She has also worked as a German and English language tutor in Munich. She taught German at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School for 13 years and is a founding member of the Berkshire Waldorf High School faculty. Every two years Frau Wirth escorts groups of our students to Munich, Germany, where they attend classes at the Munich Waldorf School

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.

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/

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.

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.

Patrick White, business manager, owns a boutique marketing communications agency in Stockbridge, focusing on direct mail, design, copywriting, and database management. Previously, he founded several start-ups where he raised more than $30 million in venture capital. He is a 1980 graduate of Monument Mountain Regional High School and a 1984 graduate of Boston College, where he won the Finneran Commencement Award, one of the University’s highest honors. He lives in Stockbridge with his dog Sadie.