Dragonfly Teachers (4/5s)

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Lisa Bruno
Lisa is a Brooklyn native, although she also considers North Carolina her second home.  Lisa has a B.A. from Hunter College, where she studied Studio Art with a concentration in Photography.  Lisa also studied and worked at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC where she took classes in quilting, weaving, spinning and knitting, among others.  Lisa loves doing crafts and sharing that love with children.  This will be Lisa's fifth year teaching preschool, but her first at the Co-Op School.  She is very excited to be part of the Co-Op community!  When Lisa is not teaching you can find her at her sewing machine, on her bike, contra dancing, or playing with her dog, Whistle Pig.

Natalie Evans
Natalie hails from the beautiful city of Ithaca, NY, where autumn is brisk and colorful, where winter is cold, where spring is just right and where summers are somewhere in between! Ever since the second grade, Natalie knew that she wanted to teach. There was no doubt about it. She was fascinated with writing on chalkboards, taking attendance, giving out homework and having PTA conferences with my friends and little cousins! In the middle of her senior year of high school, she suddenly decided that nursing was where she wanted to be. But boy, does she stand corrected. A stint in nursing school and a few college majors later, she now holds a Bachelor's degree in childhood education and a Master's Degree in early childhood education, and is where she was always meant to be: in a classroom. There is an indescribable feeling she gets when she walks into the classroom each and every day. Her students bring her such joy and she looks forward to bringing out their very best potential. Natalie hopes one day that she is able to inspire any one of her students to become an educator in the very same way that she was inspired in her second grade year. 

William Lazarus Wacker
William has been teaching in the United States and abroad for the last fourteen years. He has a Master of Education in elementary education, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology with a minor in English, and BFA degrees in painting and photography. He likes whey protein shakes (vanilla or cookies n' cream). He is currently writing fiction under the tutelage of Tom Spanbauer and writing literary reviews for Drunken Boat. He really likes 8oz. French Press coffees with a shot of espresso added. He likes the small size of the 8oz. cups; they make him feel dignified. He still completes a lot of painting and photo projects and tries to show regularly. He is happy to be back on the east coast and super happy to be back with the Co-Op School.