Gloria Kemp carries out a variety of tasks related to administration, outreach and development at the Institute. Before joining the Institute, she was a class teacher at Hawthorne Valley School, just down the road - a role in which she has twenty-four years' experience spanning her tenure at two schools. During these years she also served as a chairperson of the board of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America and as a consultant to Waldorf schools nationwide. In addition she was director of Waldorf teacher training for the summer teacher development institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Waldorf schools, of course, have a special openness to the Goethean approach to science.

Currently Gloria is chairperson of the Waldorf Schools Fund, Inc., and also of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation's Global Community Fund. Before her connection with Waldorf education, she was an associate dean of students at New York University's Graduate School of Business. There she coordinated and supervised the operation of admissions, recruitment, public relations, publications, financial aid, academic advising, career counseling, housing, international students' services, exchange programs, and student activities. She has an M.A. from NYU as well as a B.A. in literature and philosophy from California State University at Los Angeles.

In her spare time Gloria is a "fanatic" handworker, using natural fibers for knitting and crocheting. She is beginning to explore plant dying. Possessed of a love for traveling, she has visited several continents and, for one summer, taught English in China.

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