Who We Are
Team
Meet the team

Lucas Ames
Director of Operations
GOA

Amanda Burch
Instructional Designer

Carly Caplener
Program Assistant

Jason Cummings
Director of Student Programs
GOA

Jessica Gould
GOA Faculty & Coach

Becky Green
Associate Director of Professional Learning
Kelsey Hall
Associate Director of School Engagement

Emily Hamlin
Associate Director of Students and Schools
GOA

Alexis Hope
Program Coordinator

Eric Hudson
Director of Learning and Design
GOA

Bonnie Lathram
Director of Professional Learning
GOA

Ellen Min Hartman
Associate Director of Learner Experience

Michael Nachbar
Executive Director
GOA

Robin Pinné
Assistant to the Executive Director
GOA

Deepjyot (Deep) Sidhu
Director of Equity and Inclusion/Associate Director of Professional Learning

Sara Tahir
Associate Director of Professional Learning
Global Online Academy

John Austin
Deerfield Academy

Tim Bazemore
Catlin Gabel School

Jim Best
Mission & Governance Committee Chair
Dalton School

Madeleine Hewitt
Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools

Julie Jungalwala (formerly Wilson)
Institute for the Future of Learning

Kristen Kral

Emily McCarren
Board Vice Chair
Punahou School

Mark Milliron
Civitas Learning

Bernie Noe
Strategy Committee Chair
Lakeside School

Dana Okeson Weeks
Finance Committee Chair
Germantown Friends School

Reshan Richards
New Canaan Country School

Andrew Watson
Board Chair
Albuquerque Academy

Ayako Anderson
Noble & Greenough School
Glenda Baker

Tina Bessias
Durham Academy

Megan Bounit
The Park School

David Boxer
The Blake School

Jennifer Bray
Providence Day School

Jenny Carlson-Pietraszek
Noble & Greenough School

Jake Clapp

Darcy Cleaver
Louisville Collegiate School

Jeff Dungan
Shanghai American School

Jamey Everett
Park Tudor School

Tara Ferrell

Joel Garza

Jessica Gould
American School in Japan

Treavor Kendall
Greenhill School

Kawai Lai

Adam Lavallee
The Episcopal Academy

Kathleen Ralf
Genocide and Human Rights
Frankfurt International School, Oberursel, Germany

Lina Samawi
King's Academy

Carmen Taylor
Park Tudor School

Mila Tewell
The Dalton School

Matt Westman
St. Andrew's School, Middletown, Delaware

Jim Wysocki

Christian Abbott
Computer Science I: Computational Thinking
Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida

Shari Abbott
Prisons and Criminal Law
American International School-Chennai (AISC), Chennai, India

Rania Al Natsheh
Arabic Language through Culture I
King’s Academy, Madaba, Jordan

Ayako Anderson
Japanese Language through Culture
Noble and Greenough School (Dedham, MA), Phillips Academy (Andover, MA)

Kim Banion
Gender Studies, Prisons and Criminal Law
The Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Missouri

Etsuko Barber
Japanese Language through Culture I
St. Marks School of Texas, Dallas, Texas

Doug Behse
Entrepreneurship in the Global Context
Formerly Jakarta International School, South Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore American School, the Republic of Singapore

Christopher Bell
Introduction to Investments
International School Bangkok, Nonthaburi Province, Thailand

Tina Bessias
Algorithms, AI & Machine Learning and Climate Change and Global Inequality
Durham Academy, Durham, North Carolina

Hillary Boles
Creative Nonfiction
Louisville Collegiate School, Louisville, Kentucky
Jim Bologna
CS II: Game Design and Development, Cyber Security, and iOS App Design
Windward School, Los Angeles, California

Jennifer Bray
Psychology and Neuropsychology
Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina

Natalie Broderick
Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology
Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong and Boston, Massachusetts

Jim Burns
9/11 in a Global Context, Genocide and Human Rights
American School Foundation of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

Ale Cantu
Climate Change and Global Inequality
American School Foundation of Monterrey

Leah Cataldo
Neuropsychology
Buckingham Browne and Nichols, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Amy Choi
International Relations
The Mount Vernon School, Atlanta, Georgia

Anita Churchville
Abnormal Psychology
American School of Bombay, Mumbai, India
Meghan Codd
Spanish Language Through Culture I
The Bishop's School, San Diego, California

Scott Cotton
International Relations, 9/11 in a Global Context
Greenhill School, Dallas, Texas

Jacob Crowder
Introduction to Psychology and Designing for Online Learning
Brookstone School, Columbus, Georgia

Joel Garza
Race and Society
Greenhill School, Addison, Texas

Lauren Gehman
Positive Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, and Learners for Life: Growth, Grit and Gratitude
Metairie Park Country Day School, Metairie, Louisiana

Brian Germain
Abnormal Psychology
International School of Beijing, Beijing, China
Brendan Gill
Digital Photography, Filmmaking
Catlin Gabel School, Portland, Oregon

Jessica Gould
Bioethics, Global Health, and Medical Problem Solving I and II
Lincoln Community School, Accra, Ghana

Ala Hamdan
Arabic Language through Culture
King's Academy, Madaba, Jordan

Heather Hersey
Abnormal Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Learners for Life: Designing Excellent Questions
Harvard Westlake Middle School, Los Angeles, California

Kevin Hurley
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Personal Finance
American School of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Justin Jacobson
Introduction to Investments and Personal Finance
The American School in Japan, Chōfu-shi, Japan

Treavor Kendall
Medical Problem Solving and Problem Solving with Engineering and Design
Greenhill School, Addison, Texas

Margaret Kim
CS II: Analyzing Data with Python, CS I: Computational Thinking, and Problem Solving with Engineering and Design
American School in Japan, Chōfu, Japan

Matt Lage
Introduction to Investments and Prisons and the Criminal Law
Brookstone School, Columbus, Georgia

Adam Lavallee
Microeconomics
The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Jenny Marien
Prisons and the Criminal Law and Social Psychology
The Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Missouri

Amy Merrell
Global Health and Medical Problem Solving
Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Cassie O'Brien
Social Psychology
Lincoln Community School, Accra, Ghana

Cris Pessoa
Linear Algebra and Number Theory
International School of Curitiba, Curitiba, Paraná Brazil

Aaron Preetam
Business Problem Solving
Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lucius Provase
Climate Change and Global
Graded - The American School of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Kathleen Ralf
Genocide and Human Rights
Frankfurt International School, Oberursel, Germany

James Reeder
CS I: Computational Thinking
Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina

Laura Reysz
Medical Problem Solving I and II
Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Mohammad Sarhan
Business Problem Solving and Introduction to Investments
King’s Academy, Madaba, Jordan

Nadim Sarhan
CS I: Computational Thinking and CS II: Game Design and Development
King’s Academy, Madaba, Jordan

Brendan Sarsfield
Architecture and Graphic Design
The American School in Japan, Chōfu-shi, Japan

Ken Schwartz
Architecture
Carol Morgan School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Meredith Sjoberg
Abnormal Psychology and Positive Psychology
Lakeside School, Seattle, Washington

Joe Steiner
Geometry
Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, Connecticut

Christine Taylor
Medical Problem Solving I
Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina

Carmen Taylor
Geometry, Medical Problem Solving II, and Multivariable Calculus
Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Mila Tewell
Climate Change and Global Inequality and Microeconomics
The Dalton School, New York, New York
Paulette Unger
Bioethics
Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina

Matt Westman
Arabic Language through Culture I, II, and III
St. Andrew's School, Middletown, Delaware

Leah Wolf
CS I: Computational Thinking and CS II: Java
Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Jim Wysocki
Linear Algebra and Number Theory
Catlin Gabel School, Portland, Oregon
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