Noah Mayers : Founder and Lead Teacher
Noah has been a teaching artist, puppeteer, and artisan since 2001. He has had the honor of teaching at such august institutions as Eugene Lang College/New School University, Village Community School, LEAP, R.A.D. School, Brooklyn Free School, and with Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
Noah is passionate about exploring the unique learning environment of New York City. He’s thrilled to share his enthusiasm for investigating the mechanisms that give the city life. As a young adult, he was inspired by his alternative schooling experience, and he is honored to pass on the same gift.
Amy Carrigan : TEACHER
Amy has been caring for, educating and playing with children for 25 years. She is a singer, puppeteer, artisan and mother of one shiny 4 year old. Amy believes in fostering autonomy, cooperation, independence, empathy, limitless thinking, community, creativity, problem solving, divergent and convergent thinking, love, compassion, personal growth, spontaneity and curiosity as a way to help children develop their leadership skills and sense of purpose in the world. She is currently in a vocal improvising lab in residence at Carnegie Hall and is working on co-creating an opera for babies to premier at Carnegie in April 2019. She has been a puppeteer and co-artistic director of Brooklyn puppetry company Drama of Works for nearly 20 years.
Alexander Khost : TEAcher
Alex has been a young people's civil rights advocate for the past twenty-five years as an educator and as a father. He is the co-founder of play:groundNYC, a junkyard playground for children in New York City and was the founder of the Teddy McArdle Free School, a democratic school that was portrayed in the documentary, Approaching the Elephant. He has an MFA from Parsons School of Design, the New School University; a BA from Mason Gross, Rutgers University; and he is a certified K-12 art teacher in New York. See more of his with children work here.
Gerardo Ramirez : TEACHER
Gerardo has been teaching at Brooklyn Apple since 2015. Besides his incredible tinkering skills, he is also a breakdancer, visual artist, and graphic designer.
Karen Duek: Teacher
Bio on the Way!
Isadora Frost: Teacher
Isadora Frost grew up in Brazil, where, in 2009, she graduated from PUC Sao Paulo in Performance Art and Dance. In 2014, Frost completed a second degree in Fine Arts, at The San Francisco Art Institute, CA. In 2018 she acquired a Master’s Degree in Photography, at Parsons the New School of Design, NY. She has shown her work Internationally since 2007. Those include New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, China, San Francisco, New York and Finland, where she received an award at the Helsinki Photo Festival in 2019. In addition, Frost has been acting as an art educator in New York City for the last 4 years focusing on middle school aged students and is currently acting as self-directed facilitator.
Jenni Mahnaz: Admin Extraordinaire
Jenni is a homeschool consultant, photographer, Mama, and admin extraordinaire for Brooklyn Apple. She has played in the self-directed education community for aver 12 years and continues to find new ways to engage. When she isn’t following up with BAA families, she is raising 3 little humans and dispelling common myths about homeschooling.
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JenniMahnazPhotography.com