Rebecca Hays Nelson ’07
Co-Director. Practical Work of the Class Teacher; Life Sciences; Geometry
Rebecca, who was appointed Elementary program director in 2024, is a middle school specialist at Waldorf School of New Orleans, where she has taught since 2010. Prior to joining that school’s faculty, she took a class from sixth-eighth grade at Green Meadow Waldorf School. In recent years, Rebecca has also been an instructor in and leading force behind Sunbridge’s Summer Series middle school grades courses. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, where she majored in English and anthropology, Rebecca discovered Waldorf education while studying Mayan archaeology at Tulane University, from which she earned an MA in anthropology. She also holds an MSEd in Waldorf elementary education from Sunbridge College.
Justin Trombly
Co-Director
Justin joined Rebecca as Elementary co-director in 2025. A Waldorf educator since 2004, he is currently grades pedagogical chair, faculty chair, and upper grades math and art teacher at Detroit Waldorf School, where he has been on the faculty since 2016 and where he guided the class of 2024 from first-eighth grade. Prior to joining Detroit Waldorf, Justin taught in the early childhood section and in grades 1-8 at Swallowtail Waldorf School and Farm, where he graduated his first eighth grade class. He earned a BA in Elementary Education and Philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago and received his Waldorf teaching certification from the Micha-el Institute. We are happy to welcome him to Sunbridge!
Olga Domokos
Math
Olga teaches math in Sunbridge’s Approaching the Grades Summer Series courses. Formerly a class teacher and the administrative director at Waldorf School of Palm Beach, she is currently on the faculty of Lotus & Ivy. Olga earned her her MSEd in Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education from Sunbridge College and her MEd in Instruction and Curriculum through Sunbridge Institute’s partnership with SUNY Empire State University.
Stephen K. Sagarin
Education, Fine Art, Color Theory, School Governance, Inner Development
Steve, who has been teaching at Sunbridge since 2000, founded and directs our High School Teacher Education program and is also co-founder and faculty chair at the Berkshire Waldorf High School, where he teaches history and art. He is also a former teacher and administrator at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School and the Waldorf School of Garden City, the high school from which he graduated. From 2019-23, he served as a trustee on the Sunbridge Board. Steve has taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York. He is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; the author of The History of Waldorf Education in the United States: Past, Present and Future; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration. Steve has a PhD in history from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in art history, with a certificate of proficiency in fine art, from Princeton University.
Brigida Baldszun
Eurythmy
An independent working eurythmist and therapeutic eurythmist, Brigida was born and educated in Europe, where she began her career. She has taught eurythmy in Waldorf schools in Europe, the US, South Africa, India, China, and Russia. She currently teaches on the East Coast where she also performs, both as a soloist and with a eurythmy ensemble. In addition to holding a BA in performing arts from the University of Oslo, Brigida earned diplomas in eurythmy and eurythmy therapy from the Goetheanum in Dornach and a certificate in pedagogical eurythmy from Stuttgart Waldorf Teacher Training.
Will Crane
Spacial Dynamics
Following a 30-year career at Green Meadow Waldorf School as a class teacher (1986-1991) and as Director of Physical Education and Athletics (1991-2016), Will is broadening the spectrum of his work in movement education to meet the growing needs of our time. His current endeavors include bringing Spacial Dynamics® movement to complement adult education at Sunbridge as well as at the Fiber Craft Studio’s Applied Arts program, “Uncovering the Voice” (Werbec singing/voice training), and the Christian Community Seminary, among others. He also works with individual clients in movement therapy, is a teacher and movement therapist at the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge, NY, and is a long-time contributor to the trainings at the Spacial Dynamics Institute. As a professional movement educator, Will brings his skills in mentoring and consulting to help developing teachers in Waldorf schools worldwide. He received his Foundation Year education and teacher training at Rudolf Steiner College.
Elizabeth Doshi
Language Arts
Elizabeth is a faculty member at the Ashwood Waldorf School in Rockport, Maine, where she has taught grade one for the last five years, either as a stand-alone class or a combined grades one and two class. Before coming to Ashwood, she was a grades three-six class teacher at Cape Ann Waldorf School (now The Waldorf School of Moraine Farm); taught grades two, three, and four at the Lexington Waldorf School; assisted in grade four at Pine Hill Waldorf School; and, at the Waldorf Steiner School in Singapore, taught parent-child classes, parent education workshops, and enrichment for grade one. Elizabeth, who is also a Sunbridge Summer Series “Grades” instructor, studied theater and philosophy at Bard College, has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and completed her Waldorf training at Antioch New England.
Meggan Gill ’10
Anti-Bias Education
Meggan joined Sunbridge’s administrative team in 2021 as director of education and organizational culture. She is also a member of the Sunbridge Early Childhood program faculty and in 2025 was named co-director of WECAN. A specialist in diversity, equity, and inclusion and a member of Alma Partners, she is an active workshop presenter for AWSNA and WECAN and, along with Dr. Linda Williams, led a workshop at the 2023 World Teachers’ Conference. Meggan’s teaching experience includes serving on the faculty of Brooklyn Waldorf School from 2009-20, where she led parent-and-child and kindergarten classes and was active on the Faculty Council. Prior to joining BWS, she taught kindergarten at the Olympia Waldorf School and parent-and-child and nursery classes at the New Amsterdam School. She earned her undergraduate degree in health sciences from The Evergreen State College, her MEd in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in Waldorf education from SUNY Empire State, and her certificate in Waldorf early childhood education from Sunbridge.
Elizabeth Hall
Language Arts, Humanities
Liz is a middle school specialist at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school’s Collegium and the Teacher Development Committee. Prior to joining the Green Meadow faculty, she was a class teacher and lower school chair at the Waldorf School of Baltimore. A longtime member of the Sunbridge Elementary faculty, Liz is also a member of our Early Childhood program faculty and along with Meggan Gill serves as co-lead instructor of Sunbridge’s “Waldorf Weekend” workshop. She holds a BA from Earlham College, where she double-majored in English and Spanish and minored in Art History; an MA in Education and Waldorf Certificate 1-8 from Antioch New England Graduate School; NH certification 1-6; and a Certificate of Curative Education from Camphill Special Schools, Inc.
Kemal Lowenthal
Woodwork & handcraft
Kemal teaches woodwork and clay in the middle school and applied arts in the high school at Green Meadow Waldorf School, the school from which he graduated and where he has taught since 2017. Prior to coming to Green Meadow, he was on the faculty of the Maine Coast Waldorf School for five years, where he served as the elementary faculty chair and sat on the Leadership Committee and the College of Teachers. Kemal’s subjects have also included high school math, literature, art, 6th grade geology, 7th grade algebra, and drama. He holds a BFA in ceramics and sculpture, with a minor in art history, from the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MEd in Waldorf elementary education from Antioch University of New England.
Irene Richardson
Anti-Bias Education; Classroom Management; Language Arts
Irene is the gardening and woodwork teacher at the River Valley Waldorf School. Previously, she served as class teacher to three groups of Waldorf students, in Princeton, Tucson, and Philadelphia. A love of mythology and folklore, the natural world, and growing things were common threads that ran through Irene’s undergraduate degree in comparative religion at Bard College, her master’s in education at Sunbridge College, and her certificate in biodynamics at the Pfeiffer Center. When she is not teaching, Irene is supporting collaborative leadership and self-development in Waldorf schools through her work as an AWSNA delegate. She is enthusiastic about the work of carrying Waldorf education forward into its second century and toward liberation for all, and balances her work life with time exploring forests and museums with her child and collecting stacks of books she hopes to read eventually.
Mac Mead
Gardening
Mac has been the director of the Pfeiffer Center since 2007. He has farmed and gardened biodynamically for more than thirty years, working with the land on every scale from hand work to field-scale vegetables, tending an orchard to managing dairy cows. He was the resident farmer at the Fellowship Community’s Duryea Farm from 1997 until 2005 and a co-worker at the Camphill Village in Copake, NY, from 1972 to 1974, where he did therapeutic community work and also taught nature and games at the fledgling Waldorf school there. As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the third grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center’s public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson. Mac graduated from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania with a degree in psychology.
Rubeena Sandhu
Inner Development
Rubeena has been a Waldorf educator and school head for over 25 years. She currently works as a certified New Adult Educator and school counselor, helping to support students, teachers, administrators, and parents, and is co-director of The New Adult Learning Institute’s “Grounded In Practice” foundation studies program. Rubeena’s previous experience as an adult educator includes serving as faculty member and director of the Grades program at The West Coast Institute for Studies in Anthroposophy. The Northwest/Pacific Region member of the AWSNA Leadership Council since 2018, and secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, Rubeena holds a bachelor’s of fine arts degree, a master’s of education in school counseling, and a Waldorf teaching certificate.
Emily Remensperger ’16
Art
Emily returned to Green Meadow Waldorf School, which she attended from kindergarten to twelfth grade, as a class teacher in fall 2024. Previously, she served as a class teacher at Housatonic Valley Waldorf School from 2013-24. Emily, who has also been a Grades instructor in Sunbridge’s Summer Series, holds a master’s degree in art education from Pratt Institute and received her Waldorf teacher training at Sunbridge.
Suchi Swift ’13
Math
Suchi is a class teacher at the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge, NY, and is a longtime member of Sunbridge’s Summer Series Approaching the Grades faculty. Previously, she was a class teacher for many years at Green Meadow Waldorf School, where she sat on the Collegium and served as lower school chair. Suchi began her teaching career in the New York City public school system in 2002, and after eight years working across a variety of grades decided to pursue Waldorf education professionally. Prior to joining Green Meadow, she taught at New Amsterdam School and The Brooklyn Waldorf School. Suchi earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, her MS in education from Hunter College, and her elementary teaching certificate from Sunbridge.
