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Faculty

Traveling School faculty create magic in and out of the classroom! More than just educators, they are mentors, role models and guides along the journey of a Traveling School semester. Our faculty are passion-driven, and go above and beyond to ensure students have the support and resources they need to thrive.

Arden Simone

Faculty Mentor & Academic Teacher

Base Camp: Bay Area, California
South America Spring 2024
3rd semester with TTS

Arden Simone’s educational journey began in Pennsylvania, where attending an all-girls school from 3rd through 12th grade ignited her unwavering commitment to all-girls education. She later graduated from Davidson College with a degree in Psychology. Her most recent role at Khan Lab School (KLS) in the Bay Area involved teaching Humanities and co-leading the department. While at Khan, Arden also founded and directed KLS Outdoors, an expeditionary learning program that provides outdoor experiences to the student body, fostering a deeper connection to nature and experiential learning.

Prior to KLS, Arden taught in diverse educational settings across twelve countries, guiding U.S. high school students through Southeast Asia, Europe, Western Africa, and the United States. At The School for Field Studies, a study-abroad program for U.S. college students in Cambodia, she spent a year overseeing risk management, student well-being, and field research. She also taught in northern India and at a Friends School in the United States. In fall of 2019, she served as Program Coordinator and Lead Academic Teacher for The Traveling School’s Southern Africa Semester, where her passion for transformative international education deepened further, and she returned to TTS as Program Coordinator and Lead Teacher for this past fall’s Southern Africa Semester as well.

In addition to her educational pursuits, Arden loves traveling (of course!), backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, cooking, going out for dim sum, and chatting with friends around a campfire. She is thrilled to rejoin The Traveling School, recognizing it as an extraordinarily powerful, joyful, and transformative opportunity for young women.

Meredith Nass

Program Coordinator & Academic Teacher

Base Camp: Durango, Colorado
South America Spring 2024
3rd semester with TTS

Graduated with her Master’s in Education from University of Colorado, Boulder with a focus on Ethnic Studies and Educational Policy, Meredith has spent her career tackling critical questions related to justice work, with an emphasis on reimagining the roles of transformative educators. A dedicated mentor, Meredith finds inspiration working with young people and specifically in utilizing liberatory pedagogies in experiential settings. She previously worked as Assistant Director of Camp Glenbrook in New Hampshire, and for Gap at Glenbrook, facilitating programming on a rural farm with graduated high schoolers taking a gap year. In the spring of 2022, she taught for The Traveling School’s Western US semester. She adores her previous students and looks forward to teaching for The Traveling School in the fall of 2023 and spring of 2024. When she’s not teaching, Meredith loves to dance, do yoga, bike, ski, practice Spanish, garden, cook, read, and spend time with friends and family in the mountains and desert landscape of her home-base in the Southwest.

You should know that The Traveling School did a masterful job of finding superlative instructors – ones so good that they will, without question, rank among the best of the best of [our daughter’s] entire K-12 (and probably beyond) educational experience.

John, 2018 Alumnae Parent