Director of Ingenuity Year

Erin earned her Doctor of Education degree from East Tennessee State University, brings over a decade of experience to the role. She has worked in secondary and postsecondary education and served as an educational consultant for educational programming. Her areas of expertise include experiential learning, international education, student retention, and program management. She began her work by managing community engagement opportunities for high school seniors who needed to fulfill internship requirements toward capstone projects.

Her love for international education stirred from her own experiences growing up abroad in Southeast Asia with her family. This experience allowed her to learn new cultures, overcome obstacles through grit and determination, and develop a passion for international learning from a young age. Before joining Forman, Erin’s efforts in the classroom focused on working with underrepresented student populations with a variety of interests in developing their executive functioning skills to further develop students’ personal and professional interests.

erin.garcia@formanschool.org

Director of Admission

Jaime has worked in the Forman Admissions Office since 2014 and now serves as the Director of Admission. A former teacher, she is experienced in assessing students and guiding them through the application process. Jaime is particularly well-suited to welcome students into the life of a boarding school, having attended Westover School in Middlebury, CT.

jaime.feinman@formanschool.org

Executive Functioning Coach

Dr. Beth Warsof is the Executive Functioning Coach for Ingenuity Year. Dr. Warsof is a developmental psychologist, certified professional coach, and experiential educator. She has over a decade of experience working with young people, adults, families, and communities across a spectrum of needs, resources, and environments.

Beth’s career began at the Ivymount School, where her work with students on the autism spectrum sparked a lifelong interest in the cognitive and socioemotional development of individuals with learning differences. She honed her skills in autism spectrum disorder and executive functioning service provision, including diagnostics, intervention, and research, at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Children’s National Medical Center.

For the past decade, Beth has brought her expertise in alternative learning and development to gap year and experiential education fields, designing powerful learning opportunities tailored to students’ needs, goals, and desired future paths. She is excited to support students in achieving their goals through skill acquisition and refinement, scaffolded independence and initiative, and personally-determined means and measures of success.

Program Leader

Dante has spent his entire life outside, usually dancing somewhere along the peaks and plains of Montana. He studied Journalism and Wilderness Studies at the University of Montana and most recently taught English in Bulgaria. Dante has won awards for stories he reported, wrote, and produced throughout the West. A jack of all (outdoor) trades but a master of none, he’s eager to learn and pass along whatever he’s picked up along the way. Dante has never turned down an opportunity to jump in cold water—test him.

Program Leader

Grace graduated from Colorado College in 2022. She studied Organismal Biology and Ecology and spent her junior year studying climate change abroad in Iceland and on a sailboat in the Caribbean. Most recently, Grace taught English at the Plovdiv Medical University in Bulgaria. She has mentored students for the past nine years and values place-based learning. Grace is excited to explore the themes of climate change, fisheries, and food systems while building leadership skills in the beautiful state of Maine!

Intern & Former Ingenuity Year Gapper

Rebecca Guglin is currently studying computer science at Santa Clara University. Growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley while visiting the pristine wilds of coastal Maine each summer, she’s gotten to explore two worlds that, as different as they seem, are overlapping more and more with each new discovery. Her passion for not only preserving the natural world, but making it ever more accessible in the midst of the digital age, is the driving force behind her goal of eventually working in computational sustainability.

She was a student in the first-ever Ingenuity Year program, where she got to expand her horizons and learned critical skills that have not only helped her in her college career, but bolstered her confidence as a lifelong learner and global citizen. She hopes to encourage future Ingenuity Year students to step out of their comfort zones and discover just how many paths are open to them.

In her free time, Rebecca also enjoys filmmaking, hiking, knitting, discovering new music, and most importantly, making her own ice cream recipes.

Assistant Director of Admission

Meredith joined the Admissions team as Assistant Director of Admission after serving as Assistant College Counselor at Forman for three years. Prior to this, she enjoyed various other roles within the Forman community, including—ACT/SAT tutor, private tutor, summer program teacher, and substitute at the Institute for Cognition and Learning. With a B.S. in Education and a minor in Special Education from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, Meredith also taught public school in Denver, CO, and Cohasset, MA. Meredith and her husband, both Litchfield natives, live in a town with their two children. They enjoy traveling, camping, and spending time with friends and extended family.

meredith.shafer@formanschool.org

Director of Diagnostic Center

Maryellen joined the Forman School staff as the School Psychologist in July of 2019 and is now the Director of the Forman Diagnostic Center. A Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of Connecticut and a member of the American Psychological Association, Maryellen has over 10 years of experience in the field with training concentrations in forensic and neuropsychology. She most recently served as the Director of Diagnostic Services at The Southfield Center for Development.

maryellen.ruth@formanschool.org

Assistant Director of Admission

Tyler began at Forman as an Admission Counselor in July 2021. He is also the Co-Head Coach of the Football team and Head Coach of the Boys’ Junior Varsity B Basketball team. Prior to Forman, Tyler worked at Assumption University as an Undergraduate Admissions Counselor and Assistant Men’s Track and Field Coach. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Bates College. There, he played four years of football as a defensive end and was captain of the team during his senior year.

tyler.harrington@formanschool.org