No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. H.E. Luccock
Amy Rosenberg
AON World LX Designer & Faculty
Writer, reader, bike-rider, parent, teacher, walk-taker. I like terrible Hollywood disaster films (the more terrible the better). I play the bass guitar in an indie-punk-rock-riot-grrrl band. I’m an extrovert on the inside.
“Teach us to care and not to care.”
Austin Volz
Director, Program Design
I climb things. Raiser of questions, keeper of Great Books literary, philosophical, mathematical, and scientific, more languages forgotten than remembered, one-time cheese-maker, veers off the rails. True opinion makes me cranky.
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.”
Blake Bush
Senior Lx Designer
Curious. Animator. Stone carver. Austinite. Art museum and nature visitor. Michelle Dante’s husband. Skylar June’s father.
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
Carmel Schettino
Global Academic Dean
Researcher & introvert, mother, lover of corgis, musician, mathematician & mad Italiophile. Social constructivist, disrupter of norms and lifelong educator and learner.
“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. This is the only preparation which in the long run, amounts to anything.”
Charles Xavier
Research Scientist
Avid learner, former teacher. Fierce croquet competitor. Skeptical optimist. Reader and collector of books. Curious, philosophic, anti-fragile. Educational psychologist and neuroscientist. Meaningmaker, merrymaker, troublemaker.
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.”
Claire Renegado
Data Analyst
Coder, data miner, visualiser, pattern seeker and a full stack developer way back.
“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg.”
David Palumbo
Strategic Advisor
World class arm waver, passionate advocate, and gray haired entrepreneur and inventor focused on all aspects of educational innovation.
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
Dirk DeLo
AON Math LX Designer & Faculty
Innovative educational technologist, mathematician, global educator, passionate advocate, explorer and MacGyver in all pursuits.
“You won’t discover new worlds if you stay tied safe at the dock.”
Drew Edwards
Research Associate
Philanthropic vagabond by day, carpenter by night. Entrepreneur, over competitive athlete, ever patient coach, and aspiring master storyteller.
“Don’t let fatigue make a coward out of you.”
Ed Novak
Senior Software Engineer
Problem solver, programmer, gamer, cynic, and dinosaur who appreciates the simple things in life.
“How ‘bout we solve this over beer?”
Gerry Manacsa
Senior UI/IX Designer
Designer, geek, photographer, explorer, long-ago rocket scientist, seeker of coffee shops and forgotten places.
“Life without memory is no life at all.”
Isil Celimli
Research Scientist
Social scientist, teacher, researcher, ethnographer, wannabe yoga instructor, proud Brooklynite, enthusiast of Greek islands.
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
Jared Thorn
Industrial Designer
Designer, maker, house fixer, happy camper. I love spending time with my family and creating things, often at the same time.
“The best way to complain is to make things.”
Jason Holden
Electrical Engineer
Electrical engineer, artist, inventor, entrepreneur, tai chi practitioner. Breaker of boxes. Solver of problems.
“Don’t oppose forces; use them.
God is a verb, not a noun.”
Jenny Aleman
Manager, Planning and Design
Designer, long-distance walker, novice indoor gardener, admirer of fireworks displays and avid traveler dreaming of the next city to explore and next mountain to ski.
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Jill Butler
Senior UI/IX Designer
Designer, author, ant trying to channel my inner grasshopper. I enjoy transforming mundane tasks into delightful experiences.
“Life is available only in the present.”
Julia Chun
Global Director of Education
Reader, 저자님.
선생님, learner.
New Yorker, 서울사람.
딸, mother.
“There is no such thing as perfect writing, just like there is no such thing as perfect despair.”
Julia Higdon
Global Director, Research Analytics and Measurement
Scientist, seeker, teacher, purveyor of fine statistical methods, retired roller derby pivot, consistent trouble-maker. Approximately 60% Bayesian, 20% frequentist, and 20% other. Demands more cowbell.
“You can’t fix by analysis what you bungled by design.”
Kelly Oka
Senior Software Engineer
Programmer, gamer, procrastinator, father, world class misspeller. I struggle to make the Photoshop world a reality.
“There are always three sides to a story…”
Liz Lee
Director, Planning and Design
Former violinist. Mother of Penelope. Fan of true crime documentaries and bad horror flicks. Consumer of textures. Snacker extraordinaire.
“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”
Maggie Wollner
Director, Curriculum Design
Reader, learner, New Yorker. Dedicated to making schools places where students find belonging, joy, and purpose.
“You can dance in a hurricane
But only if you’re standing in the eye.”
Marcia Tingley
Editorial Director
Editor, writer, voracious reader, enthusiastic birder, environmental and political activist, occasional gardener. Entranced by theater. Long-ago programmer. Avenues employee #11, new resident of Arizona. Wife of Tyler, mother of two sons, grandmother of two boys.
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
Mark Gutkowski
Global Academic Dean
Master teacher, missionary of the revolution; designer and creator of innovative education programs that embrace complexity and imagination; snowboarder, surfer, and motorcycle enthusiast. “What if?” Select. Strike. Repeat.
“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.”
Mike Maccarone
Global Academic Dean
Interdisciplinarian. Music and mistake listener and maker. Uncertainty-principle and hazy-IPA enthusiast. Problem and crossword solver. Skiing, hiking, and kayaking go-er. Rolling stone.
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”
Rebecca Strauss
Strategic Initiatives Lead
Writer at large, lowbrow aesthete, native New Yorker, culinary enthusiast, irreverent dinner date, prolific reader, natural born storyteller.
“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”
Rosanna Satterfield
AON STEAM LX Designer & Faculty
Avid reader, travel addict, outdoor enthusiast and high altitude balloon hobbyist. My favorite course in college: Interdisciplinary Colloquium. My favorite STEAM subject: all of them but physics first.
“Science is magic that works.”
Steven Dracht
AON STEAM LX Designer & Faculty
Rube Goldberg aficionado, do-it-yourselfer, nature-lover, seeker, eternal optimist, husband, and father.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Tim Carr
Co-Head, AON
Global vagabond, horizon thinker, international community builder, trail jogger, wannabe woodworker, future-learning-focussed international school veteran, husband of Barbara, and father of two adult lads.
“Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.”
Ty Tingley
Chief Editor and Chief Academic Officer, Emeritus
Serial Head of many independent schools, passionate scholar of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, birder, photographer, fisherman and designer of custom fishing rods, fan of that which makes young people lifelong learners.
“I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that nature with which I am acquainted. Mythology comes nearest to it…”
William Lidwell
Vice President R&D
Cat herder, author, designer, entrepreneur, ex-NASA nerd, crusader against type III error (i.e., solving the wrong problems perfectly). I ate the marshmallow because researchers can’t be trusted.
“Dogs bark but the caravan moves on.”
Yangzi Zhao
Research Associate
Social scientist, fan fiction lover, amateur monster hunter, wannabe movie reviewer, sociologist who worships cats, rice, and croissants. I appreciate and enjoy dealing with inner conflicts.
“I’m gonna break the cycle. I’m gonna shake up the system. I’m gonna destroy my ego. I’m gonna close my body now.”