Early Childhood Faculty
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Lea Nelson Gemmell
ROSEBUD PRESCHOOL TEACHER
Joined SWS 2024
Lea Nelson Gemmell has been teaching in Waldorf early childhood classrooms since 1999, including parent-child, preschool, and kindergarten programs. She has taught and mentored at multiple Waldorf -
Beth Bertschy
ROSEBUD PRESCHOOL ASSISTANT
Joined SWS 2025
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Julie Mulrooney
RED ROSE KINDERGARTEN LEAD TEACHER
Joined SWS 2021
Julie (she/her) has more than seventeen years of experience teaching in Waldorf and other private schools. Seven of those years were taught in an early childhood setting. -
Shwetha Nagaraju
RED ROSE KINDERGARTEN ASSISTANT
Joined SWS 2021Shwetha (she, her) discovered Waldorf education after her son was born and she fell in love with the way it engages children’s learning through head, heart, and hand.
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Catalina Edwards
WHITE ROSE KINDERGARTEN LEAD TEACHER
Joined SWS 2026
Originally from Colombia, Catalina Edwards brings a rich blend of cultural heritage, artistic passion, and deep pedagogical care to her work in early childhood education.
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Natalia Kosareva
WHITE ROSE KINDERGARTEN ASSISTANT
Joined SWS 2021
After the birth of her son, Natalia’s (she, her) family lived in different countries.
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Ann Elizabeth Landgraf
PARENT-CHILD PROGRAM TEACHER (WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY)
Joined SWS 1988
Ann (she, her) spent 30 years as a Kindergarten teacher and now serves as Parent-Child Program leader.
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Susan Bagley
Joined SWS 2025
Bio Coming Soon…
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Alice Stamm
KINDERGARTEN EURYTHMY TEACHER
Joined SWS 2022
Alice Stamm has been teaching eurythmy since 1975.