Leadership
Jennifer Chace, Executive Director
From Freeport, Maine USA
Collaborating with others to transforming the system of public education toward flourishing for all is my passion. In addition to my work at The Source School, I am the assistant director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, at the University of Southern Maine. Previously I’ve been a Waldorf educator, a school leader, and an art therapist. B.A. Art, Mount Holyoke College; M.Ed., Antioch New England University; Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Arts, Tobias School for Art and Therapy in East Grinstead, UK; Certificate in School Management and Leadership, Harvard Business School / Harvard Graduate School of Education; and current PhD candidate in Public Policy and Educational Leadership at University of Southern Maine. My dissertation research in process focuses on student and adult collaboration on decision making at the high school level.
Didi Heri, Board
From Portland, Maine USA
Didi is a graduate of Portland High School and a first 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
From 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.
Lisa Sattell, Board
From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Lisa spent the first decades of her career primarily as a K-12 language educator and new teacher guide. She is continuing her work outside the traditional classroom in myriad ways and age groups. Lisa also 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
From San Diego, CA 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. Joe believes that love should be the guiding force in the world, and he works to embody that vision every day.