Ashley Addington will be the winds and percussion instructor in the music department. Ashley has given flute, piccolo and recorder lessons at Milton since 2009 and has worked with the Middle School as a winds coach. Ashley received her bachelor’s degree in music, music education and performance certificate, as well as her master’s degree in music, flute performance, from the University of Texas at Austin. She gives private studio lessons and has taught at the Tufts University Community Music Program, Indian Hill Music School and the Nashua Community Music School; and she has held positions at Bunker Hill Community College, Shady Hill School and the Longhorn Music Camp, among others. Ashley has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Indian Hill and the New England Philharmonic.
Adetutu Ajibose joins the Health and Counseling Center staff as a counseling intern. Adetute is a Psy.D. candidate in clinical psychology at William James College, where she also earned her master’s degree in psychology. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York-York College. Adetutu worked as a therapist and clinician at Arbour Fuller Hospital and completed a school psychology practicum at Natick Elementary School. Volunteer and service work opportunities brought Adetutu to Haiti and Kenya to participate in community development and research programs, and she has also worked as a foster care case planner in Brooklyn, New York. Adetutu’s concentrations are in children and families of adversity and resilience (CFAR) and African and Caribbean mental health.
Daphne Bissette will teach in the classics department as a sabbatical replacement for Sarah Wehle. Daphne earned her master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a post-baccalaureate certificate in classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her bachelor’s degree from Belmont Abbey College. Daphne previously taught at Trinity Academy of Raleigh, North Carolina, and as a substitute teacher at Boston Latin Academy. She has also worked as a tutor for students in grades 2 through 12, and for adult English-language learners.
Matthew F. Brandstetter joins the performing arts department as a speech and debate coach. Matthew has founded and sustained nationally ranked speech and debate programs at the Harker School in San Jose, California, the Fairmont Preparatory Academy of Anaheim, California, and Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California. He has also taught at Azusa Pacific University, served as the executive director and superintendent of Livermore Valley Charter School, and held teaching positions at the University of San Francisco Graduate School of Education and Concordia University. Matthew earned his Ed.D. in educational leadership K–12 from Argosy University, his master’s degree from the University of San Francisco, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine; he has done additional training and coursework through the Gregorian University of Rome, the University of Southern California, Cornell University, Harvard University, the National Forensic League and Chapman University’s Center for Autism.
Stephen Brew joins Milton’s music department as the guitar instructor. Stephen received his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia, his master’s degree from Syracuse University and his doctorate from Indiana University. Stephen has recently worked as a guitar instructor and director of the guitar ensemble at Stonehill College and as a guitar professor at Bunker Hill Community College. He has held teaching and guitar instruction positions with the Bosse School of Music, Indiana University, Martinsville High School, Templeton Elementary School and Say Yes to Education, Inc., among several others. He has performed as a soloist and ensemble member in venues around the United States.
Abby Cacho joins Milton’s English department as a teaching fellow in the University of Pennsylvania Resident Masters in Teaching program. Abby received her bachelor’s degree in Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked at the Center for Africana Studies and with the university’s programs and special events department; she also held an internship at the KIPP Foundation as an undergraduate. Most recently, Abby has worked as a teaching intern at the Kent School.
Ryan Chiu joins Milton’s mathematics department as a teaching fellow in the University of Pennsylvania Resident Masters in Teaching program. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University, where he worked as a behavioral economics researcher and tutor; he also reviewed and redesigned a political economy course. Ryan has conducted additional research at the University of Delaware and has held tutoring and teaching assistant positions.
Mark Goodrich is a new member of Milton’s athletics department. Mark received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a four-year NCAA Division 1 lacrosse player and won the W. Taylor Cook Memorial Award for Strength of Character and Positive Influences. As a high school athlete, Mark was recognized by the ISL for his performance at the Rivers School in football, basketball and lacrosse. Recently, Mark worked as the New England senior manager for 3d Lacrosse, a lacrosse services company. Mark will continue to coach the boys’ varsity lacrosse team, as he has for the last two years, and he will also coach football and teach physical education.
Khizar Hussain joins Milton as a computer science teacher. Khizar recently completed a master’s degree and fellowship in the University of Pennsylvania Resident Masters in Teaching program as a teaching fellow in Deerfield Academy’s computer science department. Khizar is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he received his bachelor’s degree in physics and minored in computer science and mathematics. Khizar previously worked as a software developer, a teaching assistant at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering camp, and as a physics research assistant. Khizar will reside in Norris House.
Jackie Lyons will be Milton’s new physical education coordinator. Jackie, who coaches Milton’s girls’ basketball team, has served as the director of the Adidas Select Girls Series Basketball. She has previously worked as the lead graphic designer for ISlide Inc., and as the girls’ basketball director for the New England Playmakers. Jackie played basketball at the University of New Hampshire and Merrimack College, where she received her bachelor’s degree in graphic design. Jackie has also coached in Milton’s girls’ lacrosse and soccer programs.
Ndia Olivier returns to Milton as a counseling intern in the Health and Counseling Center. Ndia is studying for a masters of social work at Salem State University, and she received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross. Ndia most recently worked as a social work intern and case manager at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, where she worked with patients identified as culturally diverse, disenfranchised and low-income. Previously at Milton, Ndia worked as the assistant to the chief financial and operating officer and chief human resources officer, and as a receptionist and administrative assistant.
Julia Rickert joins the English department as a part-time teacher. Julia comes to Milton from Transforming Education, where she served as the director of innovative school partnerships; she has also worked as an independent consultant for learning strategy and strategic planning. Previously, Julia was the chief of the Excellent Schools Network for Building Excellent Schools, the director of CITYterm at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and a member of the English department faculty at Deerfield Academy. Julia worked in Hong Kong through the Yale-China Association. Julia received her bachelor’s degree in English and her master of business administration degree from Yale University.
Daniel Ridge will teach French in the modern languages department. Daniel received his bachelor’s degree in modern literature from the University of California Santa Cruz; he earned his certification to teach English as a foreign language from the American Language Institute at San Diego State University; and in France, he studied at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, where he earned his master’s degree. Daniel earned his Ph.D. in French from Vanderbilt University. Daniel has been a French lecturer at Vanderbilt and Fisk University, and an English lecturer at the New Sorbonne University’s Institut du Monde Anglophone in Paris. He has also taught English in Montpellier, France, at Embassy CES in San Diego, and as a private instructor in Prague. Recently, he served as the assistant director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt.
Phil Robson joins Milton’s mathematics department. Phil was educated at the Oakham School and received his BSc in mathematics (equivalent to a master’s degree in the United States) at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. Phil began his teaching career at Oakham, and later worked at the Merchant Taylors’ School and St. Paul’s School of London, before joining the faculty of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Massachusetts, where he chaired the mathematics department for four years, served as an academic advisor and coached the girls’ soccer team.
Rebecca Schorin will return to Milton to be a part-time teacher in the English department. A member of the English department faculty from 2002–2012, Rebecca has taught at the high school and university levels since 1980. Rebecca received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is studying for her master’s degree in mental health counseling at Framingham State University, and works as a freelance editor. Rebecca has held teaching or lecturing positions at Curry College, the Community College of Vermont, Lebanon College, Johnson State College and the University of Texas.
Jacob Sydney joins the English department as a part-time teacher. Jacob received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and his master of education from Lesley University. He was a Fulbright Hays scholar in Morocco and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in South Africa. Previously, he has taught English at the Lesley Ellis School, Cushing Academy’s summer session, Triton Regional Middle School, Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School and Memorial Middle School (Hull, Massachusetts). In addition to teaching at the middle- and high-school levels, Jacob founded JT Sydney Tutoring and has taught English as a second language to adults from Africa, Asia and South America.