BOARD OFFICERS

President
Cheryl Dressler, Ed.D., Harvard University, has specialized in creating literacy programs for English language learners. She is a researcher and has experience designing and implementing evaluation tools to assess learning outcomes of educational programs. Cheryl has a deep appreciation for Waldorf pedagogy and understands the healing nature of its potential.​

Vice President
Margaret Ris, M. Ed, Antioch University, brings two decades of Waldorf teaching and administration to the team along with years of working with inner city children. The mentoring and evaluation she has done for Waldorf programs throughout the northeast gives her a deep experience in best practices of Waldorf Education.

Treasurer
Betsy Peck, B.A.,Wellesley College, has been volunteering and/or working at the Waldorf School of Lexington for over 27 years. Currently working in the Business and Development Offices, she also takes photographs for the website, publications, and parent use. Her two adult sons are graduates of the school, and she would love to see Waldorf educational principles available to wider communities.

Secretary
Jaquelin Harris, B.S. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, brings eight years of experience promoting Richard Stoltzman's music career and managing his studio. She is currently an English tutor at Commonwealth School in Boston, where she is also the school's proofreader. Jaquelin’s three children were educated in Waldorf schools and she’s been involved in Waldorf education in multiple capacities, such as being a founding parent of the Hartsbrook Waldorf School in Hadley, MA

BOARD MEMBERS

Linda Mack, Vice President of Development and Donor Services at the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts. Previously Linda was the CEO of her own business, HeronGrace Non Profit Solutions, based in Townsend. The organization specialized in providing fundraising consulting to smaller nonprofits to improve their fundraising efficiencies and capabilities. Prior to that, she served as executive director for the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions and for 15 years as Director of Development and Alumni Relations at High Mowing School, a Waldorf boarding/day high school in Wilton, N.H. where she established their first planned giving program and completed two Capital Campaigns of 3.5 million each. Linda has lived in Townsend for over 30 years on a small farm, and has two adult sons and two grandchildren.

Lauren Smith, Waldorf Education Certificate, Antioch University New England is a teacher at the Waldorf School of Lexington, MA. Having graduated a class of students in 2012 after an eight-year cycle with them, Lauren enjoyed a well-earned sabbatical year. During that year, she has volunteered her time to Cairn Hill to help create and teach the program we piloted at the Salemwood School in Malden, MA. She is now leading another class through the 8-year cycle at the Waldorf School of Lexington. ​