Diana Humphrey Carlson - First Grade Teacher
BA in Public Relations, French minor, San Jose State University
Diana grew up in California's Silicon Valley. She began the Waldorf teacher training program at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento and is currently in her second year of the part-time Masters in Waldorf Education program at Antioch New England Graduate School.
Diana enjoys all that homemaking entails - cooking, seasonal crafts, singing, telling stories, enjoying nature as a family. She is a former yoga teacher, dancer and midwife - all still abiding interests. She loves reading and usually has about three books going at once. Other interests include sustainable/biodynamic farming/eating, architecture and design, travel, foreign languages and dance. Diana is a member of the Anthroposophical Society. She began teaching at Green Meadow in 2009; her three daughters attend our school.
Kit Olbris - Second Grade Teacher
B.A. University Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Waldorf Grades Teaching Certificate and Foundation Year in Anthroposophic Studies, Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, CA; California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA.
Kit is a member of the Care Group.
Kit's university career spans Journalism, Egyptian Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology and Geology.
Bonnie Manacas - Third Grade Teacher
B.F.A., Art Education, M.F.A. Art Education, both from Concordia University in Canada; Waldorf Teacher Training, Sunbridge College.
Bonnie is a member of the Care Group and the Social Inclusion Committee.
She has written twelve class plays, and translated, as well as performed, "The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson." A singer and songwriter, Bonnie produced "A Class By Themselves," a CD of folk music sung by her Green Meadow eighth grade class in 1998. She has a strong and long-abiding involvement with American Roots music and the singer/songwriter tradition. Her two children are Green Meadow alumni.
Wendy Kelly - Fourth Grade Teacher
B.A. Dance, B.A. Psychology, University of Maryland; M.F.A. Dance, Temple University; M.S. Ed., Sunbridge College.
Wendy serves on the Collegium and the Social Inclusion Committee and is an AWSNA 1st Delegate. Her article, "Third Grade Farm Trip: Life Lessons" was published in the Summer 2003 edition of Lilipoh. A former professional dancer (modern dance) and dance educator, Wendy still teaches children and adults at Coupe Dance Studio. She is the mother of three Green Meadow students.
Karl Schurman - Fifth Grade Teacher
Princeton University, NYU Undergraduate Film School; Empire State College (BS); Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program, New England Center of Anthroposophy.
Over three decades of self-employed freelancing in the film business preceded Karl's Waldorf teaching career—Green Meadow being the first steady job he ever held! Lighting, camera work and directing yielded opportunities for rich experiences all over the US and in many parts of the world, including shooting the PBS documentary “The World of Mother Teresa.” He maintains a deep interest in cinema history, the French language, Native America and mystical Sufi poetry.
Karl has been teaching at Green Meadow since 2003. Three of his four children are GMWS graduates.
Jane Wulsin - Sixth Grade Teacher
B.A., Elementary Education, University of Florida; Waldorf teacher training, Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College, 
Detroit.
Jane serves on the school's Finance Committee and is a mentor to many teachers. She has been a part-time teacher in the Waldorf Teacher Training program at Sunbridge College.
Jane is a member of the Pedagogical Section Council of North America, an organization which works with the deepening of Waldorf education, with research and with support to Waldorf initiatives and adult education institutions in North America. She is an AWSNA board member. Jane has been teaching at Green Meadow since 1979. This is her 4th cycle as a class teacher!
Elizabeth Hall - Seventh Grade Teacher
B.A., Spanish Lit. and English Lit., Minor in Art History, Earlham College; M.A. Ed, Antioch University; Waldorf Teacher Certification; Certificate in Curative Education (Camphill Special Schools)
Elizabeth has been a Waldorf class teacher for grades 1-8. Prior to joining Green Meadow, she served as an elementary school chair and on the College of Teachers in Baltimore.
Elizabeth is a former summer camp director and holds a New Hampshire state teaching certificate for grades 1-6. She has been teaching at Green Meadow since 2006.
Rebecca Hays Nelson - Eighth Grade Teacher 
B.A., English and Anthropology, College of William and Mary; M.A., Anthropology, Tulane University; M.S, Elementary Education, Sunbridge College
Rebecca is on the Social Inclusion Committee and is the Chairperson of the Middle School 6 Committee.
She is a 1st Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, works with stained glass, and loves to travel, especially to archaeological sites around the world. Rebecca came to Green Meadow in 2007 from the Hill (Waldorf) School in New Orleans.
Faculty members who also teach in the Lower School
Eurythmy
Tari Steinrueck
Maria Ver Eecke
High School Faculty
Defne Caldwell
Alix Christofides
John Hoffman
Maskit Ronen
Handwork Faculty
April Kornberg
Christine Marlow
Michael Miller
Madeleine Wuergler
Language
Raoul Cansino
Rona Gonzalez
Ivette Lenard
Movement and Physical Education
Will Crane
Music
Jana Hawley
William Pernice
Jacqueline Stern
Karen Tallman
Anna Teigen
Suggested Reading
Click here for a suggested reading list for parents and here for a list of books authored by Green Meadow Faculty.