Chikako Miyoshi
Chikako Miyoshi was born and raised in Japan. She has worked as at fitness instructor since her college years. Chikako moved to New York in 1997 and became a Pilates instructor, and a Feldenkrais practitioner. She will be completing a Master in education at Antioch University in 2023. Email
Maria Creamer
Maria Consuelo Creamer (Botero) is the elementary and middle school Spanish teacher since 2002. She has a degree in education from La Corporacion Universitaria Lasallista in her hometown Medellin, Colombia. Maria has more than 20 years experience as Spanish teacher and 5 years as elementary school teacher in Latin America. She also studied music at […]
Giannina Zlatar
Giannina Zlatar began as a class teacher at Rudolf Steiner School in 1992, shortly after graduating from the Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education program at Sunbridge College. She took two classes through the upper grades and one from first grade through eighth grade. She then went to the Brooklyn Waldorf School, where she mentored teachers and […]
Jeff Spade
Jeff Spade has been teaching music in Waldorf schools for more than 30 years, having served as the Music Director at the Kimberton Waldorf School, the Chicago Waldorf School, and currently the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. As a guest teacher, mentor, and consultant, he has worked with the Pasadena Waldorf High School, […]
Jeffrey Venho
Jeffrey Venho grew up in Northern New Jersey where his mother taught piano lessons, and his father commuted to NYC each day to work at the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center. In eighth grade, he was thrilled to play his trumpet for the Tonight Show music director and trumpet legend, Doc Severinsen, who gifted one […]
Yoav Liberman
Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture artist, a writer, and an educator. His pieces have been featured in many curated exhibitions and in several woodworking books, most recently in Robin Wood’s CORES Recycled. He’s a regular contributor to Popular Woodworking magazine and a past contributor to American Woodworker and Woodwork Magazines. Yoav has a degree in architecture and later held two competitive residency programs: at The Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts, and the Windgate Foundation Fellowship at Purchase College, New York. Yoav teaches woodworking at the Rudolf Steiner School in […]
Jorge Martinez
Class Teacher for the Class of 2028, Jorge joined the faculty of the Rudolf Steiner School in 2013. Prior to his arrival at Rudolf Steiner, Mr. Martinez worked at the Waldorf school of Aravaca in Madrid, and at the Garden City Waldorf School. He has a Masters in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Second […]
Julia Sergeyeva
Julia teaches at Rudolf Steiner School since 1992. She has a MA in Pedagogy and French Language Teaching since 1972, from the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages, in Moscow (Russia). Email
Marisha Plotnik
Marisha Plotnik began teaching at the Rudolf Steiner School in 1995. A graduate of the Toronto Waldorf School, she studied physics at university earning her Honours B.Sc. (Physics) and B.Ed. (Physics and Mathematics) degrees in Canada. Marisha completed her Waldorf High School Teacher Training (Mathematics) as part of the lead cohort at the Center for […]