Milca is the Elemen­tary School art teacher. Milca has a B.A. in art history with a minor in anthro­pol­ogy, an M.F.A., and a Multi­ple Subject Teach­ing Creden­tial from Cali­for­nia State Univer­sity, Los Angeles. Prior to coming to Waverly, Milca substi­tute taught in Spanish Dual Immer­sion class­rooms in South Pasadena USD and was on the faculty of the Creative World Art Camp held at our campus during summer. (Email)

Armaan is the elemen­tary school music teacher. A multi-instru­men­tal­ist and a film and media composer, he grad­u­ated with a B.M. from Berklee College Of Music. With a strong passion for dissect­ing the emotions felt behind funda­men­tal musical concepts, he strives to instill philoso­phies of reason­ing, ques­tion­ing, and explo­ration amidst his music theory and instru­men­tal instruc­tion. Profi­cient in an array of instru­ments includ­ing guitar, piano, bass, drums, and vocals, Armaan aims to convey the fulfill­ing nour­ish­ment of music as an inte­gral element in a studen­t’s daily life. (Email)

Liz teaches Spanish in preschool through 6th grade and is the elemen­tary school library special­ist. Liz grad­u­ated from Brown Univer­sity with a Bachelor’s in public health and from Cali­for­nia State Univer­sity, Los Angeles with a Master’s in Educa­tion. Liz most recently worked as a behav­ioral special­ist at the Center for Behav­ioral, Educa­tional, and Social Ther­a­pies. She was also a teach­ing assis­tant at East Los Angeles Renais­sance Academy. (Email)

Jen is the learn­ing special­ist for preschool through sixth grade. She has a Cali­for­nia Teach­ing Creden­tial, a master’s in teach­ing, certi­fi­ca­tion as an educa­tional ther­a­pist, and 30 years of expe­ri­ence teach­ing and support­ing chil­dren and adults in a variety of settings. Jen works with students, staff, and parents to support students’ learn­ing needs within the class­room and provides on-site profes­sional devel­op­ment for teach­ers and staff. Led to a career in educa­tion by a life­long fasci­na­tion with the many differ­ent ways people think and learn, Jen is happi­est when around chil­dren and believes that kids are natu­rally curious and seek chal­lenges to stretch them­selves. A passion­ate advo­cate for the value of neuro­di­ver­sity, she created and leads the Waverly Neuro­di­ver­sity Parent/​Guardian Group. (Email)

Alyssa is a float­ing teacher in the Elemen­tary, Middle, and High Schools. Alyssa has taught visual art, live-action, film­mak­ing, anima­tion, and photog­ra­phy at numer­ous Los Angeles schools. She received a B.F.A. in fine arts from Syra­cuse Univer­sity, where she focused on paint­ing and sculp­ture. Her grad­u­ate train­ing in anima­tion began at CalArts’s Exper­i­men­tal Anima­tion program and contin­ued at USC’s School of Cine­matic Arts where she received an M.F.A. in anima­tion. Her animated films have screened at festi­vals in the U.S. and inter­na­tion­ally. (Email)