Ron McClain
Parkmont's Director, has 38 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 (19) and Michael (18) in Takoma Park and daughter, Maggie (12). 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, the Edmund Burke 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.

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, and daughter, Zoe.

Trefor Evans
was raised just over the river in Arlington, VA. He studied Physics, Biology and Flamenco dance at Bard College graduating with a degree in Physics in 2005. He is constantly reading, watches movies with alarming frequency and spends a fair amount of his time practicing martial arts.

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.

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 eighteenth 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 (8) and Eva (7), and her husband Garth.

Kim Schraf
is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis. She has been teaching for thirty 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.

Amy Ward
grew up in Gaithersburg, MD, went to Winthrop University in South Carolina for her BA in Fine Arts and to UMD for her M.Ed. in Art Education. She remains on board in a part-time administrative capacity with the development office and spends the other part of her workweek at Westover Elementary in Silver Spring teaching art. She is a lover of hammocks, books, music, family, a good laugh, and anything having to do with wandering around in the woods.

Willa Reinhard

Rachel Schmidt