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Deerfield Academy New Faculty Bios 2017 Deerfield Academy New Faculty Bios 2017 TOM BERGERON Orchestra & Chamber Music Director Born and raised in the Pioneer Valley, Thomas comes to Deerfield after building a distinguished international career as a musician and educator. He holds two advanced music degrees from Yale and a business degree from The Isenberg School at UMass Amherst. Thomas has held teaching positions at Tufts University, Williams College, Bennington College, Yale, Amherst College, and The Brimmer and May School. Prior to his appointment at Deerfield, Thomas was a resident fellow with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, taught the inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility through Musicambia, served as an educational consultant for The Harmony Program in New York City, and was an inclusive learning teaching artist with VSA Massachusetts. As a performing artist, he is currently Principal Trumpet with the Springfield Symphony, a member of the Atlantic Brass Quintet, and has released two critically-acclaimed albums of his own hybrid jazz chamber music. He has performed on many Broadway shows and has worked with T-Pain, Vampire Weekend, Gabriel Kahane, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The American Symphony, The Temptations, Idina Menzel, Judy Collins, and Arlo Guthrie, among others. Network television appearances include Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and CBS This Morning. You can listen to Thomas’ work at ThomasBergeronMusic.com MARSHALL CARROLL Library Director Marshall Carroll joins the Deerfield Academy faculty as the Director of the Library. Prior to Deerfield, Marshall spent ten years at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania where he served as the Director of Library Services, as well as a history teacher and the SEARCH Coordinator for their selective senior capstone program, entitled Mercersburg’s Advanced Program for Global Studies. Outside of the classroom, Marshall has led international trips to Ireland and Poland, coached wrestling and soccer (goalkeepers), and served as an advisor and dorm parent. Before Mercersburg, Marshall coached the varsity water polo and wrestling teams at The Pingry School in Martinsville, New Jersey, in addition to substitute teaching at a charter school in Trenton, New Jersey. Marshall is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, where he played varsity water polo and wrestled, and Rutgers University, where he majored in history and was a member of the crew team. Marshall has earned master’s degrees in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University and Independent School Leadership from the Klingenstein Center of Teachers College, Columbia University. Marshall and his wife, Sara, are avid travelers, theatergoers and readers. They are expecting their first child in October 2017. PATRICIA (TRICIA) CHAMBERS History Teacher Prior to joining the faculty at Deerfield, Tricia taught European history and helped coach the varsity swim teams for three years at Taipei American School. Tricia and her husband Michael love to travel and learn about various cultures and their histories. Living in Taiwan afforded them the opportunity to visit many fascinating places both on the island and around Asia. Tricia attended Williams College for her undergraduate studies in history and psychology and she cannot wait to return to the beauty of western Massachusetts. After working in children’s publishing and then teaching both world and U.S. history at Loomis Chaffee, Tricia enrolled in graduate school, earning dual Master’s degrees in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. Her dissertation explored the conten- tious relationship between the Center for Inter-American Relations, a cultural institution founded in 1965 by David Rockefel- ler, and the Latin-American artists whose work the Center sought to exhibit. Tricia is eager to be a part of Deerfield’s dynamic history department and looks forward to new challenges and learning opportunities, as she shares her love of history and its infinite applications with the students. Tricia’s other great passion is swimming. She swam competitively from the age of five through college. At Williams, she also served as the co-captain of the women’s team her senior year. She has coached off and on since she was 17 years old and she is thrilled to have the chance to continue to this work with the boys’ swim team at Deerfield. DEB COSTELLO Math Teacher Deb Costello earned her B.A. in Mathematics at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and her Masters in Liberal Studies from Lake Forest College in Illinois. She began her teaching career at the Taipei American School in Taipei, Taiwan before spending 7 years at Lake Forest Academy and 23 more at Trinity Prep School in Winter Park, Florida. She has worked for the College Board for 20 years in various roles including AP Calculus Reader, Table Leader, and Summer Institute Consultant. Deb is married and has two sons, the eldest a sophomore at Holy Cross, the younger beginning his freshman year at Emerson. She has a rambunctious black lab named Lucy. Having grown up in Minnesota, she is excited to experience changing seasons once again and is hoping to take up cross country skiing after a long hiatus. Her current hobby and passion is photography. ANTHONY FERRARO Physics Teacher Tony Ferraro comes to the Deerfield Science Department from Bern, Switzerland, having taught IB Diploma Physics and Theory of Knowledge at the International School of Berne for the past five years. During his time in Switzerland, he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Nottingham, focusing on international education. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Yale University, completing majors in physics and philosophy. While at Yale, he conducted research in disparate fields within astrophysics and nanotechnology. He looks forward to rejoining the boarding school community, having graduated from St. Paul’s School in 2008 and having returned as a residential Astronomy teaching intern at the Advanced Studies Program in the summers of 2011 and 2012. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano and the steel pan, performing in gigs across Switzerland and the UK with the steel pan band Funland Serenaders. JULIE GRAVES Math Teacher Julie has been teaching math at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics for over 30 years. She loves helping students make sense of mathematics and develop an appreciation for the power that math has to help us understand the world. She has taught Precalculus, Calculus and Statistics, as well as advanced courses like Number Theory and Mathematical Modeling. Julie started her teaching career in the Peace Corps, where she taught second mathematics in Fiji. She and her husband moved to Exeter NH in the summer of 2013 and spent that school year teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy. She likes to make things like quilts, hats and sweaters. Most summers, her garden in North Carolina produces enough food to give away to family and friends. MEGAN HAYES-GOLDING Physics Teacher Megan Hayes-Golding teaches physics and robotics, rocks a bowtie, and the most telling mark of her time in the South is the frequency with which she says “y’all.” She’s taught in independent and public schools in Georgia for the last 13 years. Megan’s professional interests include experiential education, LGBTQ student advocacy, outdoors education, anti-racism work, and the maker education movement. Megan holds a MAT in Secondary Mathematics from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Engineering from Auburn University. She blogs (https://kalamitykat.com/), Tweets (@mgolding), and Instagrams (@megtheteach) professionally. Megan is joined at Deerfield with her wife, Liz. They like to hike, camp, geocache, and generally be outside. BETH HOOKER Sustainability Education Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Center for Service & Global Citizenship Beth Hooker joins Deerfield Academy in Fall 2017 as the Sustainability Education Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Center for Service and Global Citizenship. Trained as an ecosystem ecologist, she enjoys approaching problems from an interdisciplinary perspective, and she has had a variety of distinctive professional experiences, including those at non-profit research institutions and environmental consulting companies. More recently, she has held administrative and teaching positions at Mount Holyoke College and Hampshire College. While at Mount Holyoke, Beth taught a number of courses, including environmental science, agroecology, biogeochemistry, ecology, and a capstone environmental studies seminar. For the past 5 years, Beth has served as the Director of Food, Farm and Sustainability at Hampshire College, leading initiatives related to sustainability, land use, and agriculture. Through this work, she has provided programmatic leadership and has advanced sustainability on the Hampshire campus, across the Five College Consortium, and throughout the region. She also created and directed two summer academic programs, focusing on sustainable approaches to agriculture. At Deerfield Academy, Beth will teach courses in Environmental Science and Sustainability. She looks forward to promoting Sustainability Education and contributing to the mission of the Center for Service and Global Citizenship. Beth lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband, Tim Binzen, and their daughters, Mira and Thea. Mira will be a new sophomore at Deerfield in the Fall of 2017 (class of 2020). Thea will continue her studies at the Fort
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