Our People
Bard Early Colleges Administrative Team
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Bard Early Colleges General Contact
(718) 361-3133 x8726
earlycollege@bard.edu
Stephen Tremaine
Vice President for Early Colleges
tremaine@bard.edu
Clara Haskell Botstein
Associate Vice President for Early Colleges
cbotstein@bard.edu
John Weinstein
Dean of Early Colleges
jweinstein@bhsec.bard.edu
John Gardenhire
Associate Director of Finance and Operations
jgardenhire@bard.edu
Brian Mateo
Assistant Dean, Civic Engagement
bmateo@bard.edu
Anna Hessa
Development Officer
ahessa@bec.bard.edu
Murphy Austin
Data and Evaluation Manager
maustin@bec.bard.edu
Shazia Muhammad
Finance Assistant
smuhammad@bec.bard.edu
Sarah Imboden
Grants Officer
simboden@bard.edu
Ligaya Franklin
Program Associate
lfranklin@bec.bard.edu
Dre Szegedy-Maszak
Strategic Initiatives Associate
d_szegedymaszak@bec.bard.edu
David Hills
Program Associate
dhills@bhsec.bard.edu
Our faculty are active and accomplished scholars in their fields who combine subject matter expertise with a passion for teaching adolescents.
Our staff come from the public and private sectors and are dedicated to supporting rigorous educational opportunities for secondary school students.
Brian Carter, Program Officer, Overdeck Family Foundation
Alexandra Contreras, Senior Analyst, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Colgate-Palmolive; Bard Early Colleges parent
Margaret Hempel, Foundation Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice, Ford Foundation
Tessa Huxley, Bard Early Colleges parent
Ben Iselin, Partner, McGuire Woods, LLP; Bard Early Colleges parent
Charles Johnson, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP; Trustee, Bard College
Dayna Langfan, Bard Early Colleges parent
Beth Lief, Executive Director, Petrie Foundation
Matt Mallow, Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, BlackRock
Ray Peterson, formerly Founding Principal of Bard High School Early College Manhattan and Newark
Jay Quaintance, President, SUNY Sullivan Community College
Geoff Smith, Chair, Managing Director, Digitalis Ventures
Marquitta Speller, Ed.D., Executive Director of Secondary and Collegiate Programs, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
David Tsang, Senior Strategy Consultant, IBM; Bard Early Colleges alumnus