With a natural artistic flair and love of sewing and embroidery, MaryLynn worked with vintage fabrics & mixed media for years. Her background and love of theater opened opportunities for costume design and led to a nomination for a Metro award. Upon being introduced to Waldorf Education, she knew this was her path. After completing the […]
Cybelle Afable is currently our third-grade class teacher and has already graduated two eighth grades. Cybelle joined the Steiner School faculty in 2004 as a middle school language arts and math teacher and became a class teacher the following year. She left for two years to move to Spain, where she taught English in the Waldorf School of […]
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
Ms. Kelly, a native of South Jersey with family roots in Estonia, earned a BA in both Dance and Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, an MFA in Dance from Temple University, and an MSEd in Waldorf Education from Sunbridge College. She performed professionally with two different modern dance companies in Philadelphia before […]
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 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 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 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 […]
New York native Alex Yagupsky teaches music and mathematics at the Rudolf Steiner School. After studying piano in Europe, he began composition lessons at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics. While working full-time as a systems analyst, he entered the Manhattan School of Music to study under David Noon. His music […]
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 […]
