Helen Claire Sievers, who served as Executive Director from 2001 to 2008, returned to head the organization in 2009 after time in Bangladesh as the Academic Dean of the Access Academy of the Asian University for Women. Helen Claire first joined WorldTeach after spending 18 years living in the Marshall Islands. During her time in the Pacific, she was actively involved in the community, spending time as a high school principal, a hospital administrator, a community court judge, and the director of a handicraft co-op. Previously, Helen Claire taught astronomy at Wellesley and Bentley Colleges, and was Executive Director of the Thyroid Foundation of America. She is a graduate of Wellesley College with a degree in Astronomy and has an MS in Physics from Brigham Young University. She is a recipient of the "Patriotic Civilian Service Award" from the United States Army for the work she did in improving US-Marshallese relations.
Chantal Nadeau, Finance Director
Chantal joined WorldTeach as a Finance Assistant in the Fall of 2007 while attending Tufts University for graduate school. She earned her BA in Accountancy from University of Notre Dame and has completed her coursework towards a Master's degree in Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning with a concentration in urban poverty and social justice. Prior to attending graduate school, Chantal worked in public accounting as an auditor in the financial services and nonprofit industries. She began working full time with WorldTeach as the Finance Director in February of 2009. Chantal has strong interests in race relations and underrepresented groups in society, as well as an affinity towards numbers - which makes her position at WorldTeach a perfect fit!
Maggie Tabach, Program Manager
After finishing an MSc in Development Management at the London School of Economics in 2009, Maggie joins the WorldTeach home office after several years in the field. Before heading to London, she was the WorldTeach Namibia Field Director for two years, and before this served as WorldTeach volunteer in Namibia for two years. As a volunteer, Maggie worked for a USAID-funded pilot project which sought to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in schools, and subsequently, worked for the Ministry of Education on their new implementation plan for ICT in all schools. Maggie holds a BSBA in International Business with a second major in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. She will assume the Program Manager duties for the Costa Rica, Ecuador and Chile programs. Maggie adores traveling, learning from others, good food and laughing.
Eric Weiss, Program Manager
In July 2007, after graduating from Ohio University with an MA in International Affairs, Eric joined the WorldTeach staff as the Program Manager for the Guyana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, and South Africa programs. Prior to graduate school, Eric served as a WorldTeach volunteer in Swakopmund, Namibia, and later served as the Field Director in Namibia for nearly two years. In addition to his international experiences with WorldTeach, Eric served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, studied Swahili in Kenya, and has traveled extensively throughout Southern and Eastern Africa.
Noah Rolff, Program Manager
Noah spent two years with WorldTeach on Pohnpei, first as a high school English teacher and occasional bus driver in rural Madolenihmw and then as Field Director for the Micronesia Year program. He is now the Program Manager for the Pacific Islands and Colombia programs. Originally from Ventura, California, Noah has earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley; worked on archaeological projects in Israel, Louisiana, Guatemala, and southern Germany; received an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museum Studies from the University of Cambridge; and worked as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska. His informal teaching experiences include teaching preschool at a community center in Santiago, Chile; coaching youth tennis in Oakland, California; and teaching an adjunct course in biological anthropology at Berkeley.
Dan Olver, Program Manager
In an effort to improve his lingual repertoire, Dan started to study Mandarin during his last two years in college. Then, having received a BA in English and having developed an interest in the Chinese language, he joined the WorldTeach China Year 2006 program as a volunteer in a small rural town called Ningyuan. After a year in the countryside, he wasn't satisfied that he had a broad-enough sense of China, nor that his Chinese skills had improved as much as he'd hoped that they would, so he stayed in Hunan province another year with WorldTeach, this time in the capital, Changsha. During his time in China, he traveled to various Southeast Asian countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia, as well as many different cities and provinces within China. Upon returning home he has come to the WorldTeach US office to work as the Program Manager for China, Bangladesh, and Thailand, after which time he hopes to eventually return to Asia for further work and studying.
Becky Davis, Program Manager
Becky joined WorldTeach after spending a summer volunteer teaching in Tanzania. She earned her BA in Economics from University of Michigan and has a Master's degree in Public Policy with a concentration on International Development from George Washington University. Becky has strong interests in international non-profit management, government-NGO relations, and foreign aid effectiveness. During graduate school, she spent a semester at the US Embassy in Paris in the Economic Bureau and then worked at Millennium Challenge Corporation in the Department of Congressional and Public Affairs. Becky currently works in the US office as a Program Manager.
Maki Park, Director of Outreach & Administration
Following a year spent in Malawi coordinating the launch of a secondary boarding school for girls, Maki joined the WorldTeach staff in the US office where she had worked in the past as an intern and gathered fond memories during her Master's studies. Having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan's seaside town, Turkmenbashy, prior to attending graduate school, she is passionate about international service and excited to facilitate and promote this transformative experience for others. Maki holds a BA in Government and French from Cornell University and an EdM in International Education Policy from Harvard's Graduate School of Education as well as a fascination and appetite for food and languages from all corners of the world.
Field Staff
Brandi Cutler, American Samoa Field Director
Not able to leave the island life, Brandi became the Field Director for American Samoa after a year as a volunteer teacher at Samoana High School. Before going abroad, Brandi graduated summa cum laude from Framingham State College where she studied sociology, anthropology and feminist theory and was passionately involved in numerous activist organizations like Women’s Empowerment, VietAID and Amnesty International. Brandi also spent a year working at the Victim Rights Law Center, a Boston-based non-profit focused on the civil legal needs of sexual assault victims. She has traveled China, Vietnam and Independent Samoa. Malo!
Allyson Caudill, Chile Field Director
Allyson served as a World Teach volunteer in Angol, Chile in 2009. She is excited to return to Chile as Field Director, and hopes to give WorldTeach Chile Volunteers the same unwavering support she received while serving as a volunteer. Prior to her World Teach experience, Allyson served in Thailand as an International Student Volunteer, teaching English in a small fishing village in southern Thailand. Allyson received her B.S.Ed in Secondary Education with a concentration in Social Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia. She did her student teaching at Girard College High School in inner city Philadelphia. She was an active volunteer in the Philadelphia area and served with Global Volunteers in West Virginia. Allyson finds the position of field director a perfect opportunity to feed her two passions of volunteerism and education.
Chris Ying, China Field Director
Having graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Chinese, Chris completed a year teaching at the Middle School Attached to Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan. Now serving as the China Field Director, he hopes to help the China program do more with helping improve the quality of English teaching in Hunan. He is an avid traveler and interested in all things Chinese.
Teresa Lin, China Assistant Field Director
Due to her unceasing and unrelenting curiosity about people and places, traveling the world has become a necessity in Teresa’s life. Her travel adventures began with childhood family trips to Taiwan and Canada, then expanded to Kenya, China, Thailand, and a spattering of countries across Europe in high school and college. Yet, Teresa finds herself most often returning to Asia due to her lifelong fascination with Chinese culture. In addition to her constant quest for cultural understanding, Teresa also enjoys working in the field of education. She has taught various ages of students in Chicago, China, and Taiwan, and she has also worked in graduate admissions, which has sent her wandering around college towns across the nation. Teresa was born and raised in the D.C. metropolitan area. After graduating with a BA in education from Wheaton College, IL, she resided in the great city of Chicago for several years. She is pleased to be a part of WorldTeach in Changsha, China.
Sean Freund, China Director of Teaching
After Sean graduated from Boston University with degrees in Finance and Operations and Technology Management, he worked with Teach For America where he taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade Special Education Math and English in the Greater New Orleans area. In addition to his classroom experience, Sean also worked as a TFA Corps Member Advisor, training new corps members to be highly effective in their classrooms. In 2008 Sean made the decision to leave New Orleans and head to China to work with WorldTeach and help bridge the global cultural and educational achievement gap. During his first year in China, Sean taught Spoken English to 4th, 5th 7th and 8th grade students at Qingzhuhu Foreign Language School. He also spent his 6 week semester break as acting Director for a school and orphanage in Jakarta, Indonesia. This year, Sean takes on the challenge of Director of Teaching for the China program and will work relentlessly to make a sustainable difference in the way WorldTeach teachers educate their students.
Courtney Mather, Colombia Field Director
Courtney joined WordTeach in 2009 as a volunteer in Ecuador. She was born in Princeton, New Jersey but generally lives in Hawaii on the island of Maui when back home in the U.S. With a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Courtney worked both as an IT Consultant and a therapist prior to joining WorldTeach. She has also enjoyed coaching swimming through the years but her real labor of love is writing. Her other passions include experiencing different cultures and languages, meeting new people, teaching, laughing, salsa dancing, surfing, reading...and now being an FD for an amazing group of volunteers in Colombia!
Leilani Greene, Costa Rica Field Director
Leilani is a beach girl through and through. Growing up in California, she spent most of her hyperactive childhood involved in a variety of sports. After a few years of community college, she received a pole-vaulting scholarship to Georgetown University where she majored in Government and minored in History. While at Georgetown she spent a semester studying abroad in Tanzania and fell in love with Africa. She returned in 2006 for a three-month backpacking trip through southern Africa. After finishing her trip (p.s. she still loves Africa) she decided to trade in her mzungu label for a gringa one, complete with piropos, and got back to her coastal roots. She spent 2007 as a WorldTeach volunteer in the lovely town of La Javilla in Guanacaste region, where she taught elementary school to the most amazing students in the world, and thereafter served as field staff.
Kate Kurnick, Ecuador Field Director
Kate is originally from the Los Angeles area. She was a WorldTeach volunteer in Cuenca, Ecuador from 1999 until 2001. Kate spent a total of four years living in Ecuador before moving with her Ecuadorian husband to Santiago, Chile, where her daughter was born. Kate was an ESL teacher in South America, and moved back to Los Angeles with her family to obtain her teaching credentials in both English and Spanish. After working for two years in California public schools, Kate and her Ecua-American family are thrilled to be back in Ecuador again.
Stephanie Wolff, Ecuador Assistant Field Director
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephanie developed a passion for travel and Spanish in high school after living in Ecuador for a summer through an international exchange program. She graduated from Bucknell in 2005 with a double major in Spanish and Psychology. After college, she moved to Argentina and Uruguay, where she spent about two years teaching English and working for a staffing agency, all while expanding her love and knowledge of Latin American culture. After two years in New York working for a consulting firm, Stephanie began to miss her life in South America. She is excited to be returning to Ecuador as the Assistant Field Director.
Zoisa Edwards, Guyana Field Director
Zoe, a Guyanese by birth, is very excited to return to Guyana as the country's Field Director. Her career has been dedicated to working with disadvantaged youth at organizations such as YouthBuild USA, UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, UK. She also spent a year of volunteer service with AmeriCrops as a Prevention Education Specialist in Rochester, NY. After receiving her Master's degree in Intercultural Relations at Lesley University, Zoe now focuses on the management of those that wish to serve within disadvantaged communities around the world. In her downtime, Zoe can be found reading or traveling!
Annie Himmelsteib, Marshall Islands Field Director
Raised in New Jersey, Annie first headed west to attend Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. After graduating with a BA in religious studies, she worked in refugee resettlement before heading further west to become a volunteer teacher in the Marshall Islands in 2006. After a year teaching on Ulien, Arno, she contracted to teach for another year at Northern Islands High School on Wotje Atoll. Annie left the RMI for ten months to pursue her MA in international development at the School for International Training in Vermont, and she is very happy to be back in the RMI with her friends, host families, and students to work, research, jambo, and bwebwenato.
Angela Saunders, Marshall Islands Assistant Field Director
Angela, a native Canadian, attended the University of Guelph and graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Development. Angela first became involved with WorldTeach in 2006 as a volunteer in Kaven, an outer island in the Marshall Islands. She spent the next year volunteering at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Angela is now serving at the Assistant Field Director in the Marshall Islands with WorldTeach.
Scott Kaltenbaugh, Micronesia Kosrae Field Director
Scott was born and raised in Houston, Texas and despite his travels, has never lost his love for his home state. He finished up high school in Columbus, Ohio and went on to Vanderbilt University. There Scott developed a passion for theatre which blended with his lifelong passion for teaching. He graduated with a BA in Theatre, and returned to Columbus where he began teaching math in a small charter high school and helping with their after school theatre program. After two years of teaching in the US, Scott decided to take his love of teaching international. So he got a job with a Japanese English-conversation school, and moved to a small city in western Japan. When his company went bankrupt ten months into his one year contract, Scott stayed on as a private teacher for two more months. Living abroad had hooked him though, and he wasn't ready to settle down in the US, so Scott joined WorldTeach for their first year of the Kosrae Micronesia program. Now Scott is thrilled to be returning to Kosrae as the Field Director for 2009-2010.
Lucas Claussen, Micronesia Pohnpei Field Director
Lucas graduated from Evergreen State College in his home state of Washington in 2005. Working as a paraeducator at an alternative high school in Washington, Lucas gained the skills necessary to succeed as a WorldTeach volunteer in Pohnpei since July 2008. He is currently serving as Field Director on the garden island.
Jocelyn Jungers, Namibia Field Director
As the daughter of a university professor, Jocelyn grew up hearing fantastic tales of exploits set in every corner of the globe. It was those of sub-Saharan Africa that stuck with her most. After emerging from Oberlin College with a degree in Anthropology, she settled in Seattle and began a career as a professional fundraiser. However, the desire to create her own international adventures pulled her from the administrative side of non-profit work into the field. Jocelyn came to Namibia in December 2006 as a year-long volunteer and has no desire to leave.
Kelly Jo Fulkerson, Rwanda Field Director
Kelly Jo moved to Boston from Tennessee after completing her Bachelor’s degree in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, long name, small school. In Boston, she attended Harvard Divinity School and received a Master’s in Theological Studies with a focus in Islamic Studies and Trauma Studies. This degree led her to begin working for World Education in the Africa Division, where she spent one year doing education project implementation. She then served as the Assistant Field Director in Namibia from June 2009-December 2009 and is now so excited to move to Rwanda and begin work as the Field Director!
Peter Fenton, South Africa Summer Program Coordinator
Having graduated with a B.SC. in Marine Geology, Peter has been in involved with education since 1982, when he started two community schools in rural Zululand. He subsequently taught for eight years in the South Peninsula and spent eight years managing the non-profit organization The Education Resources Network in Cape Town Teachers' Centre. The past eight years, Peter has been a Chief Education Specialist in one of nine South African provincial education departments where he manages the Lifeskills and HIV/AIDS programs, serving 1,500 schools and almost 1 million children. He works closely with the Harvard School of Public Health on a peer education program that employs over 250 facilitators and utilizes some 8,000 secondary school youth as volunteer health educators. Peter has also previously worked with Boston-based World Education on micro-enterprise development. He is a registered tour guide, and has coordinated a Swedish student-teacher exchange program and school twinning initiative. He lives in the South Peninsula - the community in which WorldTeach currently operates - and has been active in a number of community-based organizations that serve the Masiphumelele, Ocean View, and Fish Hoek communities. He has a post-grad diploma in Education, and diplomas in Business Management, Financial Management, and Project Management.
Chantal joined WorldTeach as a Finance Assistant in the Fall of 2007 while attending Tufts University for graduate school. She earned her BA in Accountancy from University of Notre Dame and has completed her coursework towards a Master's degree in Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning with a concentration in urban poverty and social justice. Prior to attending graduate school, Chantal worked in public accounting as an auditor in the financial services and nonprofit industries. She began working full time with WorldTeach as the Finance Director in February of 2009. Chantal has strong interests in race relations and underrepresented groups in society, as well as an affinity towards numbers - which makes her position at WorldTeach a perfect fit!
In July 2007, after graduating from Ohio University with an MA in International Affairs, Eric joined the WorldTeach staff as the Program Manager for the Guyana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, and South Africa programs. Prior to graduate school, Eric served as a WorldTeach volunteer in Swakopmund, Namibia, and later served as the Field Director in Namibia for nearly two years. In addition to his international experiences with WorldTeach, Eric served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, studied Swahili in Kenya, and has traveled extensively throughout Southern and Eastern Africa.
Noah spent two years with WorldTeach on Pohnpei, first as a high school English teacher and occasional bus driver in rural Madolenihmw and then as Field Director for the Micronesia Year program. He is now the Program Manager for the Pacific Islands and Colombia programs. Originally from Ventura, California, Noah has earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley; worked on archaeological projects in Israel, Louisiana, Guatemala, and southern Germany; received an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museum Studies from the University of Cambridge; and worked as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska. His informal teaching experiences include teaching preschool at a community center in Santiago, Chile; coaching youth tennis in Oakland, California; and teaching an adjunct course in biological anthropology at Berkeley.
In an effort to improve his lingual repertoire, Dan started to study Mandarin during his last two years in college. Then, having received a BA in English and having developed an interest in the Chinese language, he joined the WorldTeach China Year 2006 program as a volunteer in a small rural town called Ningyuan. After a year in the countryside, he wasn't satisfied that he had a broad-enough sense of China, nor that his Chinese skills had improved as much as he'd hoped that they would, so he stayed in Hunan province another year with WorldTeach, this time in the capital, Changsha. During his time in China, he traveled to various Southeast Asian countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia, as well as many different cities and provinces within China. Upon returning home he has come to the WorldTeach US office to work as the Program Manager for China, Bangladesh, and Thailand, after which time he hopes to eventually return to Asia for further work and studying. 
Not able to leave the island life, Brandi became the Field Director for American Samoa after a year as a volunteer teacher at Samoana High School. Before going abroad, Brandi graduated summa cum laude from Framingham State College where she studied sociology, anthropology and feminist theory and was passionately involved in numerous activist organizations like Women’s Empowerment, VietAID and Amnesty International. Brandi also spent a year working at the Victim Rights Law Center, a Boston-based non-profit focused on the civil legal needs of sexual assault victims. She has traveled China, Vietnam and Independent Samoa. Malo! 
Allyson served as a World Teach volunteer in Angol, Chile in 2009. She is excited to return to Chile as Field Director, and hopes to give WorldTeach Chile Volunteers the same unwavering support she received while serving as a volunteer. Prior to her World Teach experience, Allyson served in Thailand as an International Student Volunteer, teaching English in a small fishing village in southern Thailand. Allyson received her B.S.Ed in Secondary Education with a concentration in Social Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia. She did her student teaching at Girard College High School in inner city Philadelphia. She was an active volunteer in the Philadelphia area and served with Global Volunteers in West Virginia. Allyson finds the position of field director a perfect opportunity to feed her two passions of volunteerism and education.
Having graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Chinese, Chris completed a year teaching at the Middle School Attached to Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan. Now serving as the China Field Director, he hopes to help the China program do more with helping improve the quality of English teaching in Hunan. He is an avid traveler and interested in all things Chinese.
Due to her unceasing and unrelenting curiosity about people and places, traveling the world has become a necessity in Teresa’s life. Her travel adventures began with childhood family trips to Taiwan and Canada, then expanded to Kenya, China, Thailand, and a spattering of countries across Europe in high school and college. Yet, Teresa finds herself most often returning to Asia due to her lifelong fascination with Chinese culture. In addition to her constant quest for cultural understanding, Teresa also enjoys working in the field of education. She has taught various ages of students in Chicago, China, and Taiwan, and she has also worked in graduate admissions, which has sent her wandering around college towns across the nation. Teresa was born and raised in the D.C. metropolitan area. After graduating with a BA in education from Wheaton College, IL, she resided in the great city of Chicago for several years. She is pleased to be a part of WorldTeach in Changsha, China. 
After Sean graduated from Boston University with degrees in Finance and Operations and Technology Management, he worked with Teach For America where he taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade Special Education Math and English in the Greater New Orleans area. In addition to his classroom experience, Sean also worked as a TFA Corps Member Advisor, training new corps members to be highly effective in their classrooms. In 2008 Sean made the decision to leave New Orleans and head to China to work with WorldTeach and help bridge the global cultural and educational achievement gap. During his first year in China, Sean taught Spoken English to 4th, 5th 7th and 8th grade students at Qingzhuhu Foreign Language School. He also spent his 6 week semester break as acting Director for a school and orphanage in Jakarta, Indonesia. This year, Sean takes on the challenge of Director of Teaching for the China program and will work relentlessly to make a sustainable difference in the way WorldTeach teachers educate their students.
Courtney joined WordTeach in 2009 as a volunteer in Ecuador. She was born in Princeton, New Jersey but generally lives in Hawaii on the island of Maui when back home in the U.S. With a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Courtney worked both as an IT Consultant and a therapist prior to joining WorldTeach. She has also enjoyed coaching swimming through the years but her real labor of love is writing. Her other passions include experiencing different cultures and languages, meeting new people, teaching, laughing, salsa dancing, surfing, reading...and now being an FD for an amazing group of volunteers in Colombia!
Leilani is a beach girl through and through. Growing up in California, she spent most of her hyperactive childhood involved in a variety of sports. After a few years of community college, she received a pole-vaulting scholarship to Georgetown University where she majored in Government and minored in History. While at Georgetown she spent a semester studying abroad in Tanzania and fell in love with Africa. She returned in 2006 for a three-month backpacking trip through southern Africa. After finishing her trip (p.s. she still loves Africa) she decided to trade in her mzungu label for a gringa one, complete with piropos, and got back to her coastal roots. She spent 2007 as a WorldTeach volunteer in the lovely town of La Javilla in Guanacaste region, where she taught elementary school to the most amazing students in the world, and thereafter served as field staff.
Kate is originally from the Los Angeles area. She was a WorldTeach volunteer in Cuenca, Ecuador from 1999 until 2001. Kate spent a total of four years living in Ecuador before moving with her Ecuadorian husband to Santiago, Chile, where her daughter was born. Kate was an ESL teacher in South America, and moved back to Los Angeles with her family to obtain her teaching credentials in both English and Spanish. After working for two years in California public schools, Kate and her Ecua-American family are thrilled to be back in Ecuador again. 
Zoe, a Guyanese by birth, is very excited to return to Guyana as the country's Field Director. Her career has been dedicated to working with disadvantaged youth at organizations such as YouthBuild USA, UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, UK. She also spent a year of volunteer service with AmeriCrops as a Prevention Education Specialist in Rochester, NY. After receiving her Master's degree in Intercultural Relations at Lesley University, Zoe now focuses on the management of those that wish to serve within disadvantaged communities around the world. In her downtime, Zoe can be found reading or traveling!
Raised in New Jersey, Annie first headed west to attend Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. After graduating with a BA in religious studies, she worked in refugee resettlement before heading further west to become a volunteer teacher in the Marshall Islands in 2006. After a year teaching on Ulien, Arno, she contracted to teach for another year at Northern Islands High School on Wotje Atoll. Annie left the RMI for ten months to pursue her MA in international development at the School for International Training in Vermont, and she is very happy to be back in the RMI with her friends, host families, and students to work, research, jambo, and bwebwenato. 
As the daughter of a university professor, Jocelyn grew up hearing fantastic tales of exploits set in every corner of the globe. It was those of sub-Saharan Africa that stuck with her most. After emerging from Oberlin College with a degree in Anthropology, she settled in Seattle and began a career as a professional fundraiser. However, the desire to create her own international adventures pulled her from the administrative side of non-profit work into the field. Jocelyn came to Namibia in December 2006 as a year-long volunteer and has no desire to leave.
