Welcome New Govs Faculty!

We welcome six new faculty members this year and two faculty members who joined us partway through the school year last year. Get to know our newest community members and give them a warm welcome when you meet them on campus.
 

Jonathan Douglas

Jon Douglas is our new Chief Financial Officer. Jon brings with him a wealth of experience in schools. His independent school career began in 2002 when he became the Business Manager of The Walden School in Pasadena, CA. In 2011, Jon moved to New England to join School Year Abroad as its Director of Finance and Operations. The opportunity to support its school operations in Europe and Asia provided him with a new perspective as he managed different sorts of issues unique to a multinational educational organization. However, he desired to return to a more typical school campus environment which led Jon to Berwick Academy (Maine) where he has served for the last nine years. Before working in schools, Jon served as an Intelligence Operations Specialist in the United States Air Force. Jon lives off campus.

Isaac Kramer

Isaac Kramer joins the Art Department as our Director of Instrumental Music. Isaac graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has served as a music teacher at Boston Prep and, for the past eight years, the Music Director at the New York Conductors Symphony. Isaac has spent a good portion of the last decade as a trombonist and euphonium performer with Broadway Tours (Fiddler on the Roof and My Fair Lady) and on two different cruise lines. Over his career, he has been recognized for his skill as a conductor in several competitions, and he has worked as an archivist or librarian for the Music Academy International (Italy), the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Opera, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Isaac lives off campus, and is pursuing an MBA at Northeastern University.

 

John Horner

John Horner joins us as an English teacher. A Phillips Academy Andover graduate, John earned his BA from Gettysburg College and is in progress of earning his Master of Arts in Education from University of California San Diego. John taught high school Language Arts in the Howard County public school system in Maryland before coming to Govs. An experienced coach, John will be the assistant coach for Boys JV Soccer in the fall and the assistant coach for Boys JV Baseball in the spring. John lives on campus with his family.

Omar Machado

Omar Machado is the Director of GovsPLUS after serving as the Assistant Director since 2015. Omar earned his BA at the University of Puerto Rico, and he has held several teaching positions in his career. He taught Spanish and was the Language Department Chair at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and for the last two years has taught Spanish and been a coordinator of DEJI and POC affinity groups at Shore Country Day School. Omar has coached volleyball and directed plays over the course of his career, and he will be the Assistant Coach for JV Volleyball this fall. Omar lives on campus with his wife, Dean of Multicultural Education, Michelle de la Guardia.
 

Cheryle St. Onge

Cheryle St. Onge joins the Arts Department as our photography teacher. A graduate of Clark University, Cheryl earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art. Cheryle has taught at the collegiate level as a lecturer or professor at Clark University, Maine College of Art, University of New Hampshire, and Arizona State University. Cheryle has also taught at both Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul's School. Cheryle has consistently shown her work in exhibitions, most recently in Podo Museum in JeJu, South Korea and in the Gallery Kayafas in Boston. Cheryle lives off campus and will coach Cross Country and JV Softball.

 

Anna Fitzgerald

Anna Fitzgerald joins the Arts Department as our visual arts teacher. Anna earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Endicott College before taking her first job which combined her interests in both counseling and art. She worked for Council on Aging in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the Willow Retirement Community in Marlborough, Massachusetts. She then transitioned to teaching students, first as an intern at Glen Urquhart School and then as a Teaching Fellow at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall. Anna lives on campus and will be an assistant coach for both Girls JV Soccer and Boys JV Tennis.

 

Anna Marchand

Anna Marchand returns to Govs this fall as our Director of Student Activities. Anna will continue to work with student leaders to create our weekend activities calendar, with the Dean of Students’ Team in a variety of capacities, with the Office of Admission on interviews and committee work, and with the afternoon program as an Assistant Coach for JV Girls Hockey and Varsity Girls Lacrosse. Anna lives on campus.

 

Anneke Skidmore

Anneke Skidmore returns to Govs this fall as an Associate Director of Admission and International Admission Coordinator. Anneke spent the majority of her career in boarding school admissions and extended program development. She began working with international students at a small school in Massachusetts in the US and has since traveled the world, working extensively with both domestic and international markets for the purposes of student recruitment, enrollment management, program development, and marketing. Anneke previously worked in the Middle East, South Africa, and most recently, Switzerland. She lives on campus, will be an assistant coach for Indoor Track & Field, and helps with JV Girls Lacrosse.