Team

Meet the team

Lucas Ames Director of Operations GOA

Glenda Baker Interim Associate Director of Faculty Experience

Amanda Burch Associate Director of Learning and Design

Carly Caplener Operations and Marketing Associate

Jacqueline Chu Director of Finance

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 Partnership Programs GOA

Alexis Hope Senior Associate of Operations

Eric Hudson Director of Learning and Design GOA

Valerie Krempus Director of Communications

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 Learning Design Coach

Adam Lavallee The Episcopal Academy

Kathleen Ralf 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

Mais Alazab Architecture American University of Madaba

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

Tom Cahill Digital Photography King's Academy, Madaba-Manja Jordan

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

Stephanie Coulibaly Graphic Design Atlanta, GA

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

Rob Curran Academic English Accelerator The Savannah Country Day School, Savanna Georgia

Ikram Easton Boston College, Boston, MA

Jennifer Fleischer Personal Finance and Multivariable Calculus Polytechnic School, Pasadena, CA

Sandra Flores Positive Psychology United Nations International School, Hanoi, Vietnam

Nichole Foster Game Theory and Medical Problem Solving I Frankfurt International School, Oberursel, Germany

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

Yoko Hotta Japanese Language Through Culture I Japan Society of Boston, Boston Massachusetts

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

Simon Huss Problem Solving with Engineering & Design Windward School Los Angeles, CA

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

Jennifer Mack-Watkins Arts Entrepreneurship Pingry School, Hoboken, NJ

Georges Marayati Arabic Language Through Cultrue Center of Arabic Culture, Somerville, MA

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

Bakir Mohammad Arabic Language Through Culture I King's Academy, Madaba-Manja Jordan

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

Naadia Owens Gender & Society University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Chicago IL

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

Matt Piercy Entrepreneurship in a Global Context International School Bangkok, Bangkok Thailand

Emily Poland Bioethics Taipei, Taiwan

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

Daniel Quiros Microeconomics and Personal Finance Gulliver Preparatory School, Miami, FL

Kathleen Ralf 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

Paul Richards Positive Psychology American School of Bombay, Mumbai, India

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

Neela Singh Introduction to Psychology Frankfurt International School, Frankfurt Germany

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

Marcus Smith Race & Society Providence Day School, Charlotte, NC

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

Ashton Trawinski Forsyth Country Day School, Lewisville, North Carolina

Dr. Melacyn Turner Medical Problem Solving I American School of Doha, Doha, Qatar

Paulette Unger Bioethics Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina

Reanna Ursin Westminster School, Atlanta Georgia

Katie Walthall Developmental Psychology Columbia, Missouri

James Welch Medical Problem Solving I & II International School Bangkok, Pakkret, Thailand

Faye Wells Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL Medical Problem Solving I

Tanya West Johnson Neuropsychology Atlanta Georgia

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

Megan White Arabic Language Through Culture I Forsyth Country Day School, Lewisville, NC

Nate Whitman Introduction to Investments Roland Park Country School, Baltimore Maryland

Katelyn Williams Introduction to Psychology Greensboro Day School, Greensboro, NC

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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