Our Team

OUR TEAM

Kate Bedient, M.Ed., Director of Urban Programs

Kate's formative years were spent on the ancestral land o...

Brad Street, M.Ed., Senior Manager of Professional Learning

Brad has a Master’s in Education and has been teaching an...

Celina Steiger, M.A.Ed., Partnerships Manager

Celina is (so far) the only person to have graduated from...

Alexei Desmarais, M.Ed., Urban Schools Programs Manager

Alexei spent his childhood traveling all over the world, ...

Kate Martin, Urban School and Community Education Coordinator

Kate graduated with a degree Comparative Literature and t...

Kim Zemel, Urban School Registrar and Adiminstrative Coordinator

Kim grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent many of her chi...

Louise Prescott, Urban Programs Lead Educator

Louise grew up in San Francisco and spent her formative y...

Karen Andres, Urban School Program Educator

Karen grew up in Germany enjoying nature while hiking, ro...

Andrea Hildebrandt, Urban School Program Educator

Andrea grew up in WI surrounded by dairy farms. She spent...

Layne Perkins, Instructor

A recent IslandWood graduate, Layne is from Tacoma, Washi...