Ron McClain
Parkmont's Director, has 35 years of teaching and administrative experience in Washington's private schools. A 1971 graduate of Harvard University, he has led more than 100 outdoor adventures with students at Parkmont, Somerset, and Edmund Burke and enjoys teaching history and math. He spends his non-school time coaching sons, Matthew (17) and Michael (15) in Takoma Park and daughter, Maggie (10). He is a founding member of the Washington Small Schools Association and has served as a trustee of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, the Takoma Park Nursery School and the Dance Exchange Cooperative.

Michelle Banks
was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and returns to Parkmont for her twelfth year. She attended Brandeis University and the American University, and has worked as an AIDS educator, photographer, actor, and youth outreach worker here in Washington and in Tucson, AZ. When not in DC, she coordinates a school support and literacy project for rural children in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

Gina Duffin
is originally from Laurel, Maryland. She has studied in Khon Kaen, Thailand, and graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies from Allegheny College in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Gina enjoys hiking, biking, camping, skiing, playing tennis and softball, eating delicious vegetarian food, and participating in environmental demonstrations and protests with her friends.

Alison Duvall
graduated from Syracuse University with a B.F.A. in art photography in 1999. When she is not teaching, she loves horseback riding, swimming, anything to do with art or photography, and spending time with her husband, Pete.

Nijole Gedutis
is entering her 8th year at Parkmont. She is from Texas, studied at the University of Salamanca in Spain, and graduated as an English major from Pomona College in Southern California in 1998. She teaches yoga in Adams Morgan, and likes to spend time with her friends; eat good food; read good books; see good movies, and travel the world.

Sam Graul
was born and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 2006, where he majored in Computer Science and minored in Philosophy. All his life, he has been passionate about watching and playing sports, particularly soccer and lacrosse. He also enjoys traveling, cycling, tossing a frisbee, along with pretty much any outdoor activity imaginable.

Judy Lentz
is a native of Washington, D.C. and attended the University of North Carolina. She came to Parkmont in 1980 when her son attended middle school. Judy taught photography and is currently the Parkmont Poetry Festival Coordinator, and serves on Parkmont's Board of Trustees. She enjoys skiing, canoeing and hiking with her husband and dog.

Mike Moyer
is a graduate of Dickinson College and the University of Florida's College of Environmental Engineering and has over twenty years of teaching experience at the junior and senior high levels. After four years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mike returns to Parkmont for his sixteenth year of teaching science.

Christy Halvorson Ross
serves as the Director of Development and has been at Parkmont since 1994. Christy graduated from Connecticut College, and has studied at England's Oxford University and in Rome, Italy. In addition to her passion for ceramics, gardening, cooking, sewing, and canoeing, she has a particular fondness for her kids Si (6) and Eva (4 1/2), and her husband Garth. She also serves as the PTA President at Key Elementary School.

Kim Schraf
is a graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis. She has been teaching for twenty-six years, most recently in the Washington area. When not in the classroom, Kim is working as an actor and as a narrator for the Library of Congress' Talking Books Program.

Jake Thomsen
was born and raised in the DC area. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina and graduated from Brown University with Bachelor degrees in Music and International Relations. A returned Peace Corps volunteer from the Gambia, West Africa, he loves traveling, drumming, hiking, skiing and good movies.