Sarah Dunbar is in her third journey through the grades with Maple Class at Live Oak Waldorf School in Meadow Vista, California, where she started teaching in 2001. While most of these years have been devoted to class teaching, she also led the parent-child program for three delightful years. In addition to teaching, Sarah serves as a teacher training practicum supervisor, observation host, teacher mentor, and in various school leadership bodies and roles. She has a B.S. in Biology from Sonoma State University, a Waldorf Teaching Certificate from Rudolf Steiner College, and certification as an Outdoor Educator and Wilderness First Responder from National Outdoor Leadership School. In the School of Spiritual Science, Sarah is active as a member, in Class holding for the Sierra Nevada community, in co-coordinating for the Class holders in North America, and in pedagogical deepening and research work at Live Oak and in the wider movement.

David Barham, M.Ed.  Executive Director of Center for Anthroposophy since August 2024 and Director of CfA’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program (WHiSTEP) as of 2022, David has worked in four North American Waldorf schools, including one in Mexico, both as a class and high school teacher. Before joining CfA, he taught humanities at the Maine Coast Waldorf School in Freeport, ME, for more than a decade. In the fall of 2021, he was appointed to AWSNA’s Leadership Council as Leader for the Northeast/Quebec region. David continues to teach, write, and consult with various Waldorf schools.

Liz Beaven, EdD, has been involved in Waldorf education for 40 years as a class teacher, school administrator, adult educator, researcher, writer, parent, and grandparent. Born and educated in New Zealand, she began her journey in Waldorf education at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City then spent 21 years at the Sacramento Waldorf School as a class teacher and school administrator. She received a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of California, Davis in 2011. She served for a short period as President of Rudolf Steiner College in California and was Provost of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco before taking her current position as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education. She has been actively engaged in the expansion of Waldorf education in the US into public schools from the early 1990s. Liz is a member of the Ideal Learning Round Table, a national advocacy group, a participant in the Waldorf Associations Working Group, and participates in international research on Waldorf education.

Heather Church is the Co-Director of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN) and a member of the Board. Heather has many years of experience as an early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and adult educator, working with Waldorf parents. She serves on the Council of Anthroposophical Initiatives (CAO) and attends the International Teacher Educators Forum (ITEF) and the IASWECE Teacher Trainers’ Group monthly meetings. Heather lives in Gores Landing, Ontario, Canada.

Vernon Dewey has been serving as a class teacher and faculty chair at Mālamalama Waldorf School since 2022. Previously, he taught at The Denver Waldorf School for 14 years, including serving as Education Director for the 2021-22 school year. He was a founding member of DWS’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Committee, working to deepen and fulfill Waldorf education’s social mission organizationally and in the classroom. He also teaches Grade 7 In Gradalis’s Teaching as an Art program and its teacher training program. He received his Waldorf Teaching Certificate and Master’s in Education from Antioch University of New England in 2010.

Douglas Gerwin, himself a Waldorf graduate,  is Executive Director of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE) and mentor of Waldorf high school teachers across North America. A teacher of history, literature, German, music, and life science at the university and Waldorf high school level since 1983, he is author/editor of eleven books, as well as numerous articles and webinars, on Waldorf education and anthroposophy. In 1996 he launched a new training for Waldorf high school educators at the Center for Anthroposophy in Wilton, NH, a program he directed for a quarter-century. Over the years, he has also served on the Leadership Council of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and as a member of the international Hague Circle. He received his Ph.D. in phenomenology and depth psychology from the Graduate School at the University of Dallas.