Frank Anderson, Treasurer

Parent of Isabel in 2nd grade and Charlotte in kindergarten. Frank is the founder and CEO of Blingo, a successful consumer website that he started in 2004 and sold to Publishers Clearing House in 2006. Frank has almost 20 years of business and financial experience, including management consulting, investment banking, and corporate development at various technology firms. Frank is a CPA, earned a BS in accounting from the University of Illinois, and holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago. Frank has also served as treasurer and as a member of the board of directors at the Mountain School, a Waldorf-inspired preschool in Corte Madera.

Brian Chadbourne, Vice-Chair

Parent of Lizzie in 8th grade, Brian is a business consultant with The Cambridge Group, a Chicago-based firm specializing in growth strategy and business development. He has survived over 30 years in international business, working as CEO for companies like ACNielsen, International Flavors & Fragrances, and Keebler. He has marketing experience as well as board level experience at VNU Inc. ACNielsen, IFF Inc. (the world’s largest fragrance house), and United Biscuits. Brian brings tremendous expertise to his role on the board. He has an assertive style and a capacity to clarify priorities in a way that saves everyone a lot of time. He hails from England and earned his BS in physics from Bristol University . He has three children.

Scott Hamilton

Parent of Owen in 5th grade and Nate in 2nd grade, Scott is an adjunct assistant professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. He is also active as an independent statistical consultant for Phase II and Phase III drug development programs, and is also an NIH Grant Review committee member who writes and presents formal reviews to committee members and NIH staff. Previously Scott founded and was the president of Dynarand, an interactive voice response and Web-based solution company for clinical trial management. Scott has a BA in economics and rhetoric from UC Davis, a masters in biostatistics from UCLA, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina in biostatistics.

Colleen Kane-Dacri, Chair

Parent of Lillian in 5th grade, Colleen had many years of board experience before joining the Greenwood School board of trustees five years ago. She is serving her second year as the board chair. She is a member of the Development Committee and worked with the team on the very first Annual Giving Campaign, Winter Faire and the Moonlight Auction. She was also on the Lavender Committee, which facilitated the development of our Greenwood Naturals product line and was the chair of the community lunch program. Colleen worked as Greenwood School’s assistant director in 2008. Her career path began in the dental field. She later studied midwifery and worked as a birth attendant for 10 years before returning to graduate school to pursue a career in psychology. Colleen was the director of Greenwich Psychotherapy Services in San Francisco for 18 years. She holds a BS in public health, an MA in counseling psychology, and a PhD in clinical psychology. Colleen is currently a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Larkspur.  

Merel Kennedy

Parent of Emmett Lurssen in 4th grade and Eliza Lurssen in 1st grade, Merel has worked for the past 12 years in graphic design, currently as a freelancer and previously with two firms. After completing her BA in art history with a minor in biology from Bowdoin College and conducting foreign and domestic policy research as an intern in the Office of the Counselor to the President (think White House), she came west and completed a BFA in graphic design at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Merel recently completed a three-year term on the Mountain School board, working in the areas of tuition assistance, personnel and compensation, and several fundraising and community-building events.

deBorah Jones

deBorah comes to Greenwood ’s board with over 18 years of school board experience. It is the 5th board of trustees on which she has served. A native of North Carolina, deBorah received her BA in history and sociology with a teaching credential from the University of North Carolina and later completed graduate work in counseling and special education. This year she begins her 37th year of teaching, which has included being a homebound public school teacher of terminally ill high school students in Tampa, Florida; a learning disabilities specialist for College of the Redwoods in Mendocino; a kindergarten and class teacher at the Three Rivers Waldorf School (which she co-founded), a class teacher and extra lesson teacher at Malamalama Waldorf School on the Big Island of Hawaii; an extra lesson teacher in Virginia; and a class teacher at Willow Wood Waldorf School in Sebastopol. She graduated our 2003 and 2005 eighth grade classes. deBorah has two sons, Dylan and Tyja, who were Waldorf students. She dreams of visiting every continent in this lifetime and living to be an outrageous old woman who is never accused of being an old lady.

Danica Remy

Having been at GWS since 2000 she is the parent of alumni Dylan Remy Gamley (class of 2004) currently at UC Santa Cruz and parent of Drew Remy Soltis in the 8th grade. Danica previously served as GWS board chair and board secretary. She is currently managing director in addition to an officer at Tides, a $200M nonprofit that is committed to partnering with philanthropists, foundations, activists, and organizations to promote economic justice, robust democratic processes, and the opportunity to live in a healthy and sustainable environment where human rights are preserved and protected. Previously, she was vice president of operations at Organic, an Internet services company; vice president for Knowledge Universe, an education holding company and Vice President for The Well, the pioneering online service and where she took the Internet to Woodstock in ‘94. She helped cofound Global Business Network, a futures research and scenario planning firm. She attended San Francisco State and studied computer science and theater arts. In addition to serving on the GWS board, she serves on numerous boards including Network for Good and Point Foundation, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog and founder of The WELL. She follows in her mother’s footsteps of public service and helping start schools.

Peggy Rock

Peggy hails from suburban Chicago and a “Prairie Home Companion”-like background. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in secondary education, then studied mime and various other performing arts, eventually settling in the Bay Area with her husband. While living here, she has performed in assorted dramas, musicals, and singing ensembles. It was her son, now 29, who brought her to Waldorf education. Her 22-year-old daughter was a Waldorf student from kindergarten through her junior year. Peggy has worked with young children for over 20 years, providing in-home daycare, parent co-op participation, and teaching in several Bay Area Waldorf schools. She has trained kindergarten teachers at the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, and served on the boards of the Marin Waldorf School and the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. She now serves on the Greenwood School board. As she heads into her sixth year of teaching at Greenwood, Peggy feels blessed to be working with a talented and mature faculty and staff and an enthusiastic and informed parent body.

Patricia Rudd

Parent of Olivia in 6th grade and Cosmo in 1st grade, Patricia was among the first kindergarten families at Greenwood School. While her family left Greenwood in 2006 for 1½ years to home school and relocate, they have returned with enthusiasm for the future of Greenwood. Patricia has been a tireless and generous volunteer for Greenwood, serving as a class parent, working on development and open house committees, establishing the craft circle, and organizing community lunches. She recently initiated an effort to provide food for weekly faculty meetings. Since 1992 Patricia has assisted her husband, Mike, in the Rudd Equipment Company by organizing a wide variety of special events and developing a charitable giving program for employees. She has also worked and volunteered with local theater companies in Mill Valley and Louisville. Patricia has a BA in theater arts from Eastern Kentucky University . . . and she was the only candidate with experience as crew chief for a professional hot air balloon team!

Robert Schiappacasse

Robert joined Greenwood School as its first school director in July 2008. He has over 21 years of experience in Waldorf education, school leadership, and administration, a career that grew out of a deep commitment to and enthusiasm for Rudolf Steiner’s principles of child development and education. He is a leading authority and teacher on Waldorf administration and has consulted with Waldorf schools in the U.S. and in Canada. Robert served as president of Sunbridge College, in New York, from 2006–2008, which offers master’s degrees and professional development programs for Waldorf educators. From 1993 to 2006, Robert was administrative director of Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado. Shining Mountain is an independent school with 330 students from pre-K through 12th grade. There he worked closely with faculty, staff, parents, and the board to advance the school’s mission, vision, and strategic plan. Under his leadership, Shining Mountain achieved dual accreditation from the Colorado Association of Independent Schools and from the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. Robert began his school administration career at Waldorf schools in the East Bay and Portland, Oregon. He earned his BA from Beloit College and holds a master’s degree from San Francisco State University. He has three daughters.  

Carl Spitzer

Parent of Zoe Goldberg in 8th grade and Sasha Goldberg in 4rd grade, Carl has been at Greenwood for seven years and intends to continue here until Sasha graduates, so he is just beyond the midpoint of a 12-year commitment to Greenwood. He has 16 years of experience as a board-certified emergency physician, and has been at Marin General for the last 10 years, where he also serves as chair of the Physician IT Committee. Carl brings excellent research and technology skills and some knowledge of local real estate and construction, having taught himself to do residential construction/renovation. Carl serves as treasurer of his daughters’ classes, has accompanied both girls’ classes on trips, and often lends a hand with festivals and events. He undertook a huge volunteer effort a few years ago to develop an on-line photo roster of Greenwood families, which was well received by the community. Carl completed his B.Sc. in applied mathematics and biology at Brown University, earned his MD degree from the University of Vermont, completed his emergency medicine residency at LA County/USC Medical Center, and is currently pursuing an MBA in sustainable management at Presidio Graduate School.

Marcy Summers

Kindergarten. Marcy was born in Oakland, California and grew up in La Jolla, California. She received her BA in comparative literature from the United States International University and spent part of her college years in England. Five years later, she returned to England, where she studied Waldorf education at Emerson College and completed her training at Rudolf Steiner College. She joined the newly founded San Francisco Waldorf School as a kindergarten teacher where she taught for five years. She received her masters degree in early childhood education from Pacific Oaks College and went on to teach kindergarten at the Marin Waldorf School for nine years. Marcy is currently the faculty chair at Greenwood.

Cynthia Ulman, Secretary

Parent of Ethan Daniel in 7th grade and Julia a sophomore at Tam High. Cynthia’s career has been dedicated to management and organizational growth in the non-profit sector, and we’ve been the lucky recipient of her skillful efforts to help facilitate and guide us through the process of reinventing this board. She’s held senior management positions at the National Women’s Education Fund in Washington, DC, and at Merritt Peralta Medical Center in Oakland, and since 1990 has been an independent consultant on strategy, planning, and operations for non-profit organizations in education, community services, and health care. Her experience on past boards includes the Coalition for Elders Independence, Community Adult Day Health Service, California Network of Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers, Kumara School parent board, and Congregation Kol Shofar. She has an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Wesleyan University.