Anjani Madhure

Anjani Madhure began teaching in 1998. After graduating with a BA from the University Southern California, she joined the Los Angeles Unified School District, first as a classroom grades teacher, and later as a Teacher Advisor for their Nutrition Network program. After starting teacher training with the Waldorf Institute of Southern California, she became the […]
Elizabeth Isenberg

Elizabeth Isenberg graduated with a BA in Communications and English from the University of Huddersfield in 1994. She became a reporter and editor and following that, an English teacher in Italy for three years and textbook editor for Italian students. After emigrating to the United States in 2006, Mrs. Isenberg worked first in public relations […]
Bianca Brousseau

Bianca is a Highland Hall alumna, attending from 1980-1996. She received her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and attended both the Waldorf Institute of Southern California as well as the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, thereafter teaching the grades at the Brooklyn Waldorf School for nearly ten years.
Thea Bieling

Kathy Andersen

BA English & Fine Arts, Cal State University Dominguez Hills; MA Art Therapy, Loyola Marymount University; Graduate of Waldorf Institute of Southern California; Waldorf Remedial Training, Rudolf Steiner College;
Mike Wells

Dr. Michael Wells DC LAc began learning blacksmithing and metalworking from his grandfather when he was a child. After some petitioning, he got permission to take blacksmithing in eighth grade at Highland Hall. When the blacksmithing teacher passed away suddenly his senior year, Michael took over and finished teaching the class for the remainder of […]
Paul Turbiak

Paul Turbiak is a teaching artist, actor, communicator, arts administrator, and writer with extensive credits on stage, screen, commercials, and voiceover. He has worked with the CalArts School of Theater and CalArts Center for New Performance, as well as various arts programs across Los Angeles. Paul holds a BA in Theater from Gordon College and […]
Levi Taylor

Levi Taylor is a graduate of Highland Hall Waldorf School. He received a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University and an Ed.M. in English Education K-12 from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. In his undergraduate studies, Levi focused on applying analytical lenses to classic literature and new media content. Through his graduate studies, […]
Xiang Li

Xiang Li joins our World Languages Program teaching Mandarin to grades 1-9. Xiang believes that he is destined to be a world language teacher. He taught English as a second language in China for 7 years. After he moved to the United States of America, he first took his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from […]
TJ Lewis

TJ Lewis has been interested in crafts and woodworking his entire life. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, he grew up chasing alternative forms of education and finding his passions in creative arts. He went to the University of Oregon in Eugene where he studied costume design as well as woodworking. He moved to Los […]