List of 16 members.

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  Mason Matthews 

  History, Grade 8

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  I teach 8th grade U.S. History at Middle School. I'm originally from the Bay Area but completed my BA (History), M.Ed., and Single Subject credential locally at UCSB. Before pivoting to my dream career as a teacher at SBMS, I worked at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. My passions in life are history, travel, and food. I've been lucky enough to travel across six continents and love incorporating my firsthand knowledge and experiences from these adventures into the classroom. In my free time, I can be found cycling, hiking, cooking, reading, and cheering for the 49ers or Liverpool F.C.
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  Maureen Lehman 

  Drama / Art / Video / Music / Afterschool Theater

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  I have worked at SBMS for 30 years now, and together with my husband Eric Lehman, am part of the "Eric and Maureen team" that put on musical plays in the spring. I teach a class called "Art Journals" and enjoy teaching singing. I have sung professionally for almost my whole life. I started doing youth theater in Gaviota and was a theater arts director at Cold Spring School.
  
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  Michael Jaeger 

  Math, 8th & 9th Grade / Electives / Outdoor Education
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  Nicolas Navarro 

  Trip Staff / Electives

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  My journey here brings up great gratitude within me and I am thankful to contribute to the SBMS Life Skills program, elective classes, and expedition teams, since 2022. I am passionate about walking alongside youth as they discover questions worth pursuing in life and believe Nature is our greatest guide.
  
  Over the last 10 years supporting young people has led me to work with teenage Buddhist monks in Nepal and Christian missionaries in the Philippines. I served with the Peace Corps’ Youth in Development program in Guatemala and have guided struggling teens through Wilderness Therapy in Utah. I received a B.A in Psychology and Philosophy and a M.S.Ed from University of Miami. I find rest in hiking long trails like the Pacific Crest Trail, zig zagging across the country on my motorcycle, and finding a nice branch to whittle a spoon.
  
  My family and I live up Refugio Canyon spending our days building our dream non-profit, Gaia Farm.
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  P.A. Tremblay 

  Deli Manager

  Class of 2007

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  Born in Quebec Canada, Pierre-Alexandre (better known as P.A.) is a 2007 SBMS Alumni, who passionately works in the food industry. P.A. completed the Santa Barbara City College Culinary Arts (SBCCCA) program and simultaneously worked at restaurant Julienne. Eventually P.A. climbed the kitchen ladder to become Chef de Cuisine. "I am a little crazy about food, but behind this obsession is an even more profound desire to positively impact the community through educating and sharing the importance of cooking". An important part of P.A,'s mission is his holistic approach to cooking, which includes sourcing good ingredients, preparing them in interesting ways, eating and sharing together, and preserving what is left over. P.A. is more accurately an acronym for "positive attitude". Finding the joy and a reason to smile in all things, P.A. looks to the future with a vision of dramatically improving the food program at SBMS on trips and at school.

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  Pam Boswell 

  Learning Disabilities Specialist

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  "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." 
  Winston Churchill
  
  I coordinate the Support and Accommodation Program for students with documented learning and attention disorders.  I also coordinate high school transition for students matriculating from SBMS to high school.  I have been privileged to teach at SBMS since 1991. 
  
  I'm a third generation native Californian from an agricultural family. I graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1977 with a dual major in Physical Education and Special Education. Before coming to SBMS, I taught high school in Arizona and Texas.  
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  Richard Wilke 

  Resident Artist / Facilities Support / Trip Staff

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  Richard Wilke is a Santa Barbara artist and printmaker who worked with the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Walt Disney. Richard's portfolio boasts a variety of media including various printmaking techniques, painting, drawing, set design, and wood carvings. Some of his recent body of work – woodblock prints – exhibits his love of carving and international design in a graphic and stunning grouping of prints.
  
  

  Richard's intricate drawings are transferred to a block of wood which he carves by hand in great detail before printing on handmade rice paper. The larger images are silkscreen prints on silk which gives the rustic designs an elegant feel. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, now part of the California Institute of the Arts.
  
  See more of his work in the halls and rooms of Santa Barbara Middle School, where he continues to inspire young artists. He spent a good part of the summer of 2016 creating the artwork that now adorns the pillars at the front of the school. Another large project is the scores of paintings he created for the Vera Cruz House on Santa Barbara Street near Farmer's Market. He has more information and images on his website.
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  Scott Sanderfer 

  Trip Staff / Electives

  Class of 1983

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  I am the chef/operator of the Alley Wagon cooking rig. I plan menus, shop, and prepare all the food associated with that. Wherever that cooking rig goes so go I. Sometimes that means I am cooking for all the students of the school, and sometimes just a part of the whole. I also teach some electives on campus, coaching some sports and overseeing some sports electives. 
  
  In 1985-86 I was the first alumni to return to the school on a trip, a year later was the first alumni to have a job on campus. I then went into the world to grow up, and returned to the school in 2012 to use my life experience as a restaurant owner/chef to serve the school and rejoin the community, though I feel I was always a part of it.
  
  I was so fortunate to have my daughter Kate enrolled in 2016-17 as a student, where we eagerly shared the SBMS experience.
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  Sophia Phillips 

  Class of 2010

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  I am excited to join the SBMS staff on expeditions, teaching electives, and jumping in to help the school wherever else I can. I come from a family of SBMSers. My mom, Laurel Phillips, graduated in 1985, and I had my Rites of Passage in 2010. My sisters Zola and Freya graduated in 2012 and 2016 respectively. I first came back to SBMS as trip staff in 2016, and I feel so honored to be back on the road with such dedicated and inspiring people. I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with BAs in Integrative Physiology and Dance in 2017. Then I worked for Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 2018-2021 as the M3 Program Director, heading a dance program inside of the state-run juvenile prisons in Albuquerque. Though family and the ocean have pulled me back to Santa Barbara, I continue to work remotely as a member of Keshet's Arts and Justice Initiatives Leadership Team, developing programs and inter-organizational relationships to support systems that impact youth through arts-based mentoring. I love spending time with family, being outside, moving, and working with young people.
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  Sophie Frieman 

  Fine Arts

  Class of 1993

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  I teach Fine Arts elective classes at SBMS including Freehand Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Book Arts, Fiber Arts and Mixed-media. It's a dream to be back at SBMS, and I started teaching here in 2015. 
  
  In the early 1990s, I attended SBMS where I discovered that I loved to sing songs around the campfires and explore my artistic passions. As a college student, I studied Fine Art and Psychology at Pitzer College and also spent a year studying abroad in Ecuador. I have a Master's Degree in Art Education from the University of New Mexico.  
  
  I have taught art to kids of all ages in New Mexico, Australia, and here in Santa Barbara.  I like to try my hand at anything that is creative, but I especially love watercolors, photography, fashion design, collage and dance.  I love finding and appreciating little moments of beauty and inspiration.
  
  Family time is pretty great too, with my husband Geoff and our spirited and sweet sons Micah and Griffin. By spending time with my children, I have discovered what it's like to be a kid again spinning around with joy and finding shapes in the clouds.
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  Teresa Jamison 

  English, 7th Grade / Garden

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  My name is Teresa Jamison and I began teaching English at SBMS in 1996. Currently I teach 7th grade English, and in the afternoons I teach beading, gardening, and walking elective classes.
  
  My educational background includes SBHS ROP Greenhouse Occupations, DPHS where I started the Environmental Awareness Club in the late 70s, SBCC, Semester at Sea, Cal Poly SLO where I earned my BA, Cal Lutheran for my M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in English, and the UCSB TESL program.
  
  While teaching English as a second language at both SBCC and UCSB, I gained a greater understanding of and appreciation for grammar and communication, and I work to share this with students through project-based learning. A goal of mine is to help students uncover their passions and see how those could one day turn into a profession.
  
  I’ve ridden my bike along the Great Wall of China, but on trips you’ll usually find me with the “tail” walking, talking, singing, encouraging, cajoling and conquering mountains! On weekends you will most likely find me kayaking or paddleboarding or tending to my mini-farm in the city.
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  Vicki Lindelof 

  Math, 6th & 7th Grade / Electives
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  Victor Dominocielo 

  Science, 8th Grade / Health & Safety / Volleyball Coach / Outdoor Education

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  Wearing many hats at SBMS, I  am the 8th Grade Science teacher for Human Biology and Health and the Winter Mountaineering trip leader.  In addition, I coach girls volleyball, co-ed flag football and teach Ocean Sports, Martial Arts and Weight Lifting.  Before I started teaching at SBMS in 1999, I had been a Special Education teacher for 22 years.
  
  I have a BA in Psychology, a BA in Physical Education, and an MA in Education. My California State Teaching credentials include Biology, Social Science, Severely Handicapped Education, and Adapted Physical Education.  
  
  In addition, I am the overall Medical Coordinator at school and on trips.  I have been a lifelong EMT and Wilderness EMT (46 years), working 5 years on a 911 ambulance in NYC and 12 years with the SB County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team. I was a beach lifeguard in Carpinteria for two summers and have taught lifeguarding for 12 years at Devereux California and 18 years at SBMS. 
  
  My wife and I have a son, Gabe, who attended SBMS for four years and went through Rites of Passage in 1999.
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  Whitney Ingersoll 

  Electives / AV Productions / Trip Staff / Archives

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  I have the honor of having worked at Santa Barbara Middle School since 1980. Over the years I have been the Trip Coordinator, Career Study Week Coordinator, Admissions Director and Trip Media show creator. Now I teach guitar and run the archives. I participate as one of the trip staff on the SBMS expeditions and create media presentations highlighting the school expeditions each year with David Teton-Landis. I love my job.
  
  I joined SBMS in the fall of 1980 and soon became the Trip Coordinator. My two sons who joined me as infants on the trips, grew older and attended SBMS when they entered 6th grade. Rivers was in the class of 2005 and Dawson, class of 2007.
  
  I am a fifth-generation Santa Barbarian; my family name is Tinker. I grew up riding my pony all over Montecito back in the day when there were bridle paths along every road. I attended high school at Laguna Blanca and then college at Willamette University and Oregon College of Education gaining my BA in Psychology and Education.
  
  Some favorite moments in my life have been raising my boys, playing music and singing harmonies with friends, living in Hawaii, traveling all over Alaska, and solo backpacking the Maroon Bells 4 pass loop out of Aspen, Colorado. I appreciate the spectacular people I get to work with every day and having a job that fills me with so much joy. I try to live each day in gratitude and see the best in everyone.
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  Will Fredericks 

  Facilities Manager / Fleet Manager / Outdoor Education / Electives

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  I joined SBMS in 2015 as the Facilities Manager, Trip Staff and to teach Electives. You will find me around SBMS keeping things in tip top shape.

   
  I was an elementary school teacher for 15 years and love being around the kids. I grew up in Santa Barbara, while spending the summers in Hawaii. I have two kids in college, one at UC Davis and one at the University of Oregon.
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  Wren Miller 

  Dean of 8th Grade / Spanish, 8th Grade / Electives / Outdoor Education

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  At SBMS I am the Dean of 8th grade and teach 8th grade Spanish, electives, and help out with the outdoor education program. Some of the elective classes that I teach include jump roping, dream catcher making, container art, track and field, and mindful mandala art. I started working at SBMS in 2012.
  
  I am a UCSB graduate with a BA in Spanish and Global Studies along with a Masters in Education from the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
  
  In my free time I enjoy surfing, kiteboarding, hiking, running, yoga, and spending time with my family and friends.