Leadership
Jennifer Chace, Executive Director
Freeport, Maine USA
Collaborating with youth and adults to create cultures of meaning, connection, and transcendence is my passion. In addition to my work at The Source School, I am the assistant director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute and the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine. Ph.D., Public Policy and Educational Leadership, University of Southern Maine; M.Ed., Antioch New England University; B.A., Art, Mount Holyoke College; Certificate in School Management and Leadership, Harvard Business School & Harvard Graduate School of Education; Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Arts, Tobias School for Art and Therapy. My research focuses on trust, hope, mattering and democratic capacity building in schools for positive personal and social transformation. LINK to my dissertation and a prepress paper.
Didi Heri, Board
Portland, Maine USA
Didi is a graduate of Portland High School and a second year student at Husson University. She is also a member of the first Theory U for Youth cohort. She is studying science and hopes to maybe become a doctor. She’s lived with family in the Congo, Paris, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Washington DC, and Maine. Didi wishes that students would find school to be a first step to show them that their voice matters, their ideas matter, and it’s okay to speak up and that they can be understood by adults. She believes that teachers and students should have a strong relationship, with respect for each other and understanding that the world is changing, that diversity is a strength, and that the United States is uniting.
Joan Jaeckel, Board
Los Angeles, California USA
I’ve been following and pondering trends in the holistic education space and its growth and struggles vis a vis the mainstream education project since the 90’s. I was part of founding teams for the first two public Waldorf charter schools in Los Angeles and have served as the Development Director for Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. My focus is creating societal awareness about whole child education practice as the essential tool for meeting humanity’s great evolutionary challenges. I am the mother of two daughters and a son, and the stepmother of two sons and a daughter.
Lisa Sattell, Board Secretary
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Lisa spent the first decades of her career primarily as a K-12 language educator and new teacher guide. Lisa now serves as an embodiment, meditation, and self-awareness leadership facilitator for fun, emergent, participatory- and healing-centered education and leads the Capra Course “Systems View of Life, Learning & Leadership” and “ECO in Eco-literacy and Eco-design” study groups. Her other activities include writing, researching, and reclaiming media and storytelling spaces with warm data and the art of sacred hospitality, and collaborating to develop an arts-based crowdfunding model.
Joe Snider, Board Treasurer
Sanford, North Carolina USA
Joe is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point in 2019 with majors in Law and Economics, and he is now a Captain stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division. Soon he will begin graduate school for public policy and economics before beginning a three-year assignment teaching economics to cadets at West Point. Most importantly, Joe is the father of a beautiful baby girl. Joe believes that love should be the guiding force in the world, and he works to embody that vision every day.