Marco joined Hilltop in 2015 as an After Care and Children’s House assistant, after seeing what a positive effect Hilltop had on his two children, one a Hilltop graduate and one currently in the Upper Elementary program. He moved to Brattleboro in 2014 from his home country of Ecuador. In Ecuador he taught language through...Read More

Vicky grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where her mother ran a home-based child care program and taught her early on how to nurture and care for our youngest children. Her parents are Syrian and Spanish and influenced Vicky’s love of languages, food, and gardening.  For the last five years, Vicky was the director of a...Read More

    Lisa has worked with children from one to fourteen years of age in a variety of settings over 30+ years. Most recently, Lisa has spent the last five years as a Lead Primary teacher in Keene, NH where she has lived for the past 16 years. Lisa began her Montessori journey as a...Read More

Megan grew up in Southern Vermont and is rejoining the community by way of Rhode Island. She originally left the state to volunteer with AmeriCorps in a service learning program at a charter high school in Austin, Texas. There, she started taking classes at community college with an eye toward education. She completed her associate...Read More

    Violet (she/her) was born and raised in Florida, where she was homeschooled and attended a Montessori school for pre-school. After that, she attended both public and magnet schools, but the Montessori values of independence and intrinsic learning continued to shape her educational journey, creativity, and personal growth. Violet earned a Bachelor’s in Anthropology...Read More

Lily (she/her) was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and has a BA in East Asian Studies from York University with a focus on Chinese Language and Culture. Her studies of Asia have taken her to Cambodia, where she volunteered for an NGO offering free English classes to children in rural villages. She also has...Read More

Ali grew up in New Jersey and, as the daughter of a teacher, was always drawn to education. She attended Hamilton College, where she majored in Chinese Language and Literature in 2014. After graduating, she managed an after-school early literacy program in San Francisco, then taught 5th grade at an arts-based school in Brooklyn. In...Read More