Marcus Bell
Marcus has over 20 years of experience working with urban youth at the Middle school and High school levels. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, (his hometown) he worked as a Counselor, where he helped supervise and develop activities for teens and pre-teens at risk. Soon after he went on to become a Youth Counselor Coordinator and then […]
Margaret Egler
I grew up in Long Beach and on my parents’ avocado farm outside of Fallbrook, where my family spent weekends building a home without electricity or running water. I spent four freezing years in Connecticut studying American studies (an interdisciplinary major focusing on American history, political science, and literature) at Yale. Inspired by my college […]
Lisa Griffin
Lisa Griffin jumped at the opportunity to teach at High Tech High in 2015, after 20 years of teaching and leading in Oakland and San Francisco in arts education, outdoor education, classroom teaching, and teacher education. She has traveled through New England facilitating the creative collaboration of teen theater artists, led backpacking trips on and […]
Juli Ruff
Kalle Palmer
John Santos
I’ve been fortunate to call High Tech High my home since 2004. It has been incredible to be part of the meaningful, impactful project based-learning that has gone on at our schools. I’m energized by the continual opportunities to deepen my understanding of how I might be part of designing equitable learning environments, where authentic […]
Jesse Wade-Robinson
Hello! I was born and raised in San Diego, California, where I spent my free time surfing competitively. I earned a Molecular and Cellular Biology degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After volunteering in a classroom in Santa Cruz, I found a passion for teaching and earned a teaching credential from San Diego […]
Carly Sumrow Cox
I always wanted to be a professional student. As a child, I devoured books in my free time, carried the dictionary with me everywhere I went, and practically had to be torn out of the classroom when the bell rang each day at 2:30. That insatiable love of learning only grew as I progressed through […]
Brittany Rysman
Hello! My name is Brittany Rysman (she/her/hers) and I am excited to serve the High Tech High community as the school psychologist for the 2025-2026 school year! This will be my eighth year working for the High Tech High Organization, and fourteenth year working in education. The last two years, I supported the special education […]