The Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions has the distinct pleasure of recognizing the following educators as recipients of the 2016 Yale Educator Award. The Yale Educator Recognition Program recognizes outstanding educators from around the world who have supported and inspired their students to achieve at high levels. Matriculating students are invited to nominate high school educators, and a committee composed of Yale admissions officers reviews the nominations individually and designates recipients. Of this year’s 326 nominees, who represent 33 states and 24 countries, 55 teachers and 28 counselors were selected to receive the award. In September, the winners were sent engraved desk sets and congratulatory letters, and administrators of the high schools were notified of their achievement.
The entire Yale Admissions Office credits the excellent quality of the Yale student body to educators like these, who shape their students long before they attend Yale, and would like to thank these and all educators for their ongoing efforts in motivating and supporting their students.
Award Winner | Subject / Title | Nominated By | Secondary School | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ms. Ashley Dester | English | Oscar Lopez Aguirre | Alliance William & Carol Ouchi High School | CA |
Mr. Hong Chao | Mathematics | Nathan Nunez | Downtown Magnets High School | CA |
Mrs. Lynda McGee | Counselor | Nathan Nunez | Downtown Magnets High School | CA |
Mrs. Lisa Fulton | English | Sung-wook Hwang | Foothill High School | CA |
Ms. Lindsey Marinkovich | Counselor | Stephen Lee | Palos Verdes High School | CA |
Mrs. Yvonne Eibeck | Science | Omid Rooholfada | Rancho Bernardo High School | CA |
Mrs. Claudia Bautista-Nicholas | Spanish | Christopher Alba | Santa Monica High School | CA |
Mr. Michael Wolfe | Science | Sarah Ngo | Segerstrom High School | CA |
Mr. Tory Toyama | Science | Miranda Rector | Venice High School | CA |
Mr. Josiah Leighton | English | Sebastian Quinonez | Achievement First Amistad High School | CT |
Ms. Sheri Hjelm | English | Cheyenne Liberti | Freedom High School | FL |
Mrs. Diana Ansbro | Counselor | Corbin Wood | Manatee High School | FL |
Dr. Larry Gaudioso | Science | Corbin Wood | Manatee High School | FL |
Mrs. Samantha Szentmartoni | Science | Rachel Williams | Okeechobee High School | FL |
Dr. Romina Jannotti | Science | Aadit Vyas | Paul J Hagerty High School | FL |
Mr. Terence Mitchell | History | Kishore Chundi | Saint Edwards School | FL |
Ms. Laura Domanski | Science | Tarek Ziad | Saint Petersburg Senior High School | FL |
Ms. May Ibasco | Counselor | Rashid Akbari | Stanton College Preparatory School | FL |
Ms. Teryn Romaine | Science | Rashid Akbari | Stanton College Prep School | FL |
Dr. Rhea Galati | English | Spencer Shimek | Habersham Central High School | GA |
Mrs. Kerry Langley | English | Caleb Kassa | Lambert High School | GA |
Dr. Chuck Garner | Mathematics | Matthew Le | Rockdale Magnet School for Sci. and Tech. | GA |
Dr. Terry Davis | Science | Victor Ayeni | South Cobb High School | GA |
Ms. Lee Anne Eareckson | French | Luisa Graden | Moscow Senior High School | ID |
Mr. John Rauh | English | Jessica Trinh & Paige Swanson | Auburn High School | IL |
Mr. Ernesto Saldivar | English | Qianyue Xu | Jones College Prep | IL |
Ms. Jennifer Rucker | Counselor | Onyx Brunner | Lincoln Park High School | IL |
Mr. Daren Dusenske | Counselor | Aidan O’Connor | Prairie Ridge High School | IL |
Mrs. Ann Boldt | Counselor | Cynthia Yue | Carmel High School | IN |
Ms. Regina Donour | Science | Cameron Wright | Letcher County Central High School | KY |
Mrs. Stephanie Carter | English | Caleigh Propes | McCracken County High School | KY |
Mrs. Wendy Watts | Counselor | Caleigh Propes | McCracken County High School | KY |
Mrs. Lai Cao | Science | Stefan D’Sa | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | LA |
Mr. Jeremy Lampo | English | Christian Fernandez | Haynes Academy For Advanced Studies | LA |
Mr. Eric Bruns | Mathematics | Natalie Leitman | Seaholm High School | MI |
Mr. Daniel Harris | Social Studies | Kamau Walker | John Burroughs School | MO |
Dr. David Cantrell | Social Studies | Max Schlenker | North Carolina School of Sci. and Math | NC |
Ms. Lamia Younes | Counselor | Taesoo Daniel Lee | North Carolina School of Sci. and Math | NC |
Mrs. Colleen Finkhouse | Counselor | Ashley Pales | Lincoln Southwest High School | NE |
Mr. Jason Thomsen | Science | Ashley Pales | Lincoln Southwest High School | NE |
Ms. Kathleen Costello | Counselor | Luke Dobson | Dover High School | NH |
Ms. Vanessa Amaturo | Counselor | Katarina Wang | East Brunswick High School | NJ |
Mrs. Charleen Schwartzman | Mathematics | Kimberly Wei | Pascack Hills High School | NJ |
Mrs. Lonnie Lim | Counselor | Grace Kang | Ed W Clark High School | NV |
Ms. Leah Gesoff | Counselor | Soledad Tejada & Liana Van Nostrand | Bard High School Early College | NY |
Dr. Paul Beeken | Science | Kevin Chang | Byram Hills High School | NY |
Dr. Patrick Cushing | Science | Grace Wynter | New Rochelle High School | NY |
Ms. Nancy Bushee | Counselor | Emil Friedman | Niskayuna High School | NY |
Mrs. Lorraine Caraccio | Counselor | JaJa Sylvester | Scholars’ Academy | NY |
Ms. Lacey Goodger | Social Studies | Supriya Kohli | Edmond North High School | OK |
Ms. Susan Meer | Science | Nancy Lu | Mount Lebanon High School | PA |
Ms. Edna Cabrera | Counselor | Christian Wolpert Gaztambide | Colegio San Ignacio De Loyola | PR |
Ms. Claudia Colón | History | Christian Wolpert Gaztambide | Colegio San Ignacio De Loyola | PR |
Ms. Clare Huerter | English | Marlee Kelly | Red Cloud High School | SD |
Ms. Natalie Lochridge | Counselor | Marie Gaye | Madison Academic Magnet High School | TN |
Mrs. Jill Faith | Science | Marley Hays | A & M Consolidated High School | TX |
Ms. Mercedes Oronoz | Mathematics | Alejandra Canales | J. B. Alexander High School | TX |
Mrs. Kerri Espinoza | Counselor | Faith Vasquez | Jack C Hays High School | TX |
Mr. Scott Martin | Social Studies | Larissa Martinez | McKinney Boyd High School | TX |
Ms. Sandra Ruiz | Counselor | Aaron Adame | San Benito High School | TX |
Mr. Erick Vallarino | Science | Aaron Adame | San Benito High School | TX |
Dr. William E. Acree | Science | Shoshana Zhang | Texas Academy of Math and Sci. | TX |
Mrs. Nicole Cleveland | Counselor | Joshua Baize | Tom C Clark High School | TX |
Mr. Richard Gonzales | ROTC | Bryce Crawford | Winston Churchill High School | TX |
Dr. Matt Shields | Science | John Hays | Charlottesville High School | VA |
Ms. Donna Volkmann | Science | Katrina White | James Madison High School | VA |
Ms. Kackie Eller | Counselor | Arka Gupta & Dhruva Gupta | George Washington High School | WV |
Mrs. Kelly Massinople | Art History | Arka Gupta & Dhruva Gupta | George Washington High School | WV |
Mrs. Eleonora Pavlova | Computer Science | Hristo Staykov | Varna High School of Mathematics | Bulgaria |
Mr. Oscar Maquin | Mathematics | Victor Padilla Castellanos | Colegio Jesuita Liceo Javier | Guatemala |
Mr. Martin Campion | Counselor | Taufan Hatibie | South Island School | Hong Kong |
Mr. Elie Massaad | Counselor | Rachel Jaber Chehayeb | The International School Of Choueifat - Choueifat | Lebanon |
Ms. Antoinette Joubert | English | Rachel Jaber Chehayeb | The International School Of Choueifat - Choueifat | Lebanon |
Mr. Rafal Kobylec | History | Jakub Madej | August Witkowski Fifth High School | Poland |
Mrs. Nina Chernova | English | Anastasiia Posnova | Gymnasium No. 209 | Russia |
Dr. Sonja Cukic | Mathematics | Jana Vranes | Mathematical Gymnasium | Serbia |
Mr. Paul Wilton | Science | Titilayo Mabogunje | African Leadership Academy | South Africa |
Mr. Jordan Brown | History | Hannah Wood | Taipei American School | Taiwan |
Ms. Deniz Alp | Counselor | Yavuz Ramiz Colak | Galatasaray Lisesi | Turkey |
Mr. Richard Jenkins | Counselor | Jodie Coburn | Brinsworth Academy | United Kingdom |
Mr. Ramanjit Singh | Mathematics | Jodie Coburn | Brinsworth Academy | United Kingdom |
Mr. Tom Priddle | Counselor | Owen Ogden | The Nelson Thomlinson School | United Kingdom |
Ms. Kimberley Lloyd | Counselor | Sharon Kwinjo | Arundel School | Zimbabwe |