![]() Kirsten then traveled to Spain and Morocco for three months each, getting to know local friends and share thoughts on culture, art and spirituality. This was a beautiful space to drop in without digital devices and be present with people in the community sharing reflections on medicine, mindfulness, tea history/culture through the art of tea. While in Santa Cruz, Kirsten learned how to facilitate Gung-Fu pu-erh tea style in a well-loved and refined local teahouse. Kirsten has lived in Siskiyou County for two years and currently lives in the Shasta forest, learning how to live more sustainably and off-grid. She is originally from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, and studied Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Kirsten Joy Hubbard Assistant Co-op Facilitator, Acorn House Cate is proud to be a 3rd generation Dunsmuirian and to have finally returned to the people and place she holds most dear. Shasta and raised in Dunsmuir by her grandparents. She is currently studying Waldorf early childhood education and is grateful to be mentored by Carol Cole and Bruce Bischof, luminaries of Waldorf Education. Along with her work for Cedar Grove, she is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Cordella Press. In 2018, Cate returned to her hometown of Dunsmuir, where Cate founded Cedar Grove in 2020. Her three children attended Kimberton Waldorf School for many years and Cate fell in love with Waldorf education, and began to envision its therapeutic potential for children and families experiencing intergenerational trauma and poverty. For ten years, Cate lived and worked at Camphill Soltane, an intentional community on Lenape land (southeastern Pennsylvania) where she supported young adults with developmental disabilities, first as an AmeriCorps volunteer and then as a long-term, full-time volunteer coworker. She also worked as a camp counselor at Lake Retreat Camp in Seattle, and at Kokrine Hills Camp in central Alaska with Athabascan and Yupik youth. In her early career she worked as an assistant teacher at a Waldorf early childhood center, an art teacher at Portland Children’s Museum, a forest guide at Tryon Creek State Park, and a garden educator at Portland State’s Learning Gardens where she worked alongside low-income and refugee families. She received her Bachelors in Fine Art from Westmont College and her Masters in Sustainability Education from Portland State University as a Ford Family Foundation Scholar. ![]() Ed Founder & Director, Cedar Grove Center for Rural RenewalĬate Clother is is an artist and educator living on unceded land of the Winnemum Wintu and Okwanuchu (Dunsmuir, CA) with her husband and three children. She is excited this year to work with her colleagues and the children of Cedar Grove School.Ĭate Clother, M.S. ![]() Jessica is passionately committed to the study and work of anthroposophy and growing as an educator through the understanding of curative education in addition to traditional Waldorf education. At the American Eurythmy School she performs with other eurythmists, assists in classes, and continues to deepen her relationship with eurythmy and the study of anthroposophy. Following her graduation, she worked as a Eurythmy teacher offering classes in the fall to children in Santa Cruz, and in the spring played piano for Eurythmy classes to the children of Cedar Grove School. In 2022 she completed a training in Eurythmy from the American Eurythmy School in Weed, California. Life then brought her to the northern mountains of California, where she has lived for the past five years. At this school she earned her certificate in Foundation Studies for Waldorf Education. Following this she was hired at the Orange County Waldorf High School where she taught chemistry, practical arts, co-taught physical education, mentored students and coached afterschool sports for girls’ volleyball and basketball. She then went into the medical field in allergy care at pediatric and adults clinic for a number of years before life brought her back to California to work as a researcher at an institute in Petaluma and also assistant teach at a Waldorf inspired playgroup in Napa County. Upon graduating she attended Warren Wilson College in North Carolina where she played collegiate basketball and earned a Bachelors of Science in Biology and a Minor in Art in 2012. Jessica Bailey was a Waldorf student herself her entire childhood going through the Santa Cruz Waldorf School from nursery through 12th grade. ![]() Jessica Bailey Lower Grades & Music Teacher, Cedar Grove School
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