Team Category: AMI/USA Board of Directors

Allison Jones

Allison is a primary and elementary trained Montessorian with over 20 years of experience, including teaching, coaching, special education, school administration, bilingual Montessori, and DEI in public, charter, and international school settings. She holds an M.Ed. from Loyola University. Her passion is ensuring that Montessori is implemented in a way that

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Alva Waller Dial

Alva Waller Dial is Chief Executive Officer of Legal Resolutions Inc. (LRI), specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Alva spent over 20 years as a lawyer in the public sector, working as a trial attorney and later as staff and managing attorney for the Office

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Jacqui Miller

Jacqui Miller completed her AMI Elementary training in the early ‘90s and now approaches the work through her intersectionality as a Montessorian of Color, a public sector practitioner, a social justice advocate, and a champion of adolescents. After working with elementary children for four years,

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Kelly Jarrell

Kelly Jarrell brings a wide range of experiences in Montessori education and working with people. She holds a BA in psychology, a Masters in Social Work (MSW), a NAMC diploma in Primary Montessori Education, and an AMI diploma in Elementary. People are her passion. She first came to Montessori

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Michelle Becka

Michelle Becka received her Primary Montessori Diploma from Montessori Northwest in 1997, and her MEd from Loyola University in the same year. After working with young children for 17 years in a classroom in beautiful Portland, Oregon, she entered the AMI Training of Trainers Programme.

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Virginia Wannamaker Brooks

Virginia holds a Master’s in Education with focus on Montessori from Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is AMI-trained at three levels, having earned the Assistants to Infancy Diploma from The Montessori Institute in Denver, Colorado,

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