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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.
Past Faculty

Morgan Comey

Leslie Sandefur

Madeleine Colvin

Malia Bertelsen

Biz Osborne-Schwartz

Becky Fitzpatrick

Meredith Bannon

Beth Billington

Ali Brooks

Dawn Card Maltarollo

Victoria Cavanaugh

Lander Cooney

Autumn DeMet

Heather Foran

Anna Graves

Megan Hardy

Gennifre Hartman
Founder & Former Executive Director

Jen Sarna Herdina

Drew Higgins

Claire Hirschmann

Abigail Hunter

Bekah Hykan

Shannon Jakes

Maddie Johnson

Rachel Johnson

Savannah Johnson

Brenna Kelleher

Leah Knickerbocker

Cara Kropp

Whitney Lonsdale

Allie Mack

Liz MacNeil

Clara Maeder

Eileen Mahler

Laurel Major

Emily Mallory
Board of Directors – Former President

Quinn Mawhinney

Rhea Maze

Jenae McCarroll
Board of Directors – Former Director

Phoebe McGuire

Kate McMahon

Maria McMorrow

Lauren Miranda

Ariane Mohr-Felsen

Chrissie Monaghan
Board of Directors – Former President

Samantha Mora

Mary Reid Munford
Academic Dean

Caroline Goodman

Shannon Ongaro

Heather Politi

Julia Reich

Linnaea Renz

Danika Robison

Cara Rosingana

Jennifer Royall
Executive Director

Katelin Ryan

Erin Schaberg

Sarah Schuh

Melissa Seehausen

Sylvia Segar

Leah Shorb

Allegra Fisher

Thea Sittler

Tory Smith

Gaby Stablein

Kate Steckmest

Anna Taft

Aunge Thomas
Head of School

Elsie Thomson

Dr. Genevieve Walsh, Ed.D

Heather Weas

Sarah White

Maya von Wodke
