Education Experience & Professional Journey. After graduating from CU Boulder with a degree in Physics, she spent 5 years in California on a soul searching quest. The first few years were spent doing hydrology research as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Northern California until she moved to Southern California where she began a midwifery apprenticeship.
After moving back to Colorado to be near family as she started her own, Maggie found her way to Waldorf education through parenthood and the wish to find a holistic and meaningful education for her children. In 2003, she joined a small group of parents who shared the same vision of starting a charter school in Coal Creek Canyon. Following much pedagogical research and school visits, this group wrote and presented the charter for Mountain Phoenix Community School to the Jeffco Board of Education in 2006. Astonishingly, the charter was approved and the school opened for the 2007-08 school year as a small 3-room, multi-aged classroom school in the mountains. Since the beginning, Maggie has helped to midwife Mountain Phoenix through many different roles. She has served as a governing board member and president, teacher, administrator and a parent. All the while, her commitment to public Waldorf education strengthened. For a period of time, Maggie stepped away from the school as she attended the University of Denver earning a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Certificate for Principal Licensure in 2016. She returned to Mountain Phoenix as an Assistant Director in 2017,became the Director of Enrichment and Student Support in 2019 and became the Director of Education, Upper School in 2023. In 2022 she earned a Certificate in Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education, an advanced Waldorf Education program offered through Antioch University. Maggie is grateful every day to have found her life’s work and to be a part of a community striving towards the Principles of Public Waldorf Education.
Personal Background & Interests. Maggie was born and raised in Jefferson County, Colorado. Maggie has three children of her own who have attended Mountain Phoenix. She and her husband Matt, along with their youngest child, live on a half-acre parcel in Wheat Ridge that they hope will become an urban permaculture farmstead. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, reading, weaving, camping and spending time in nature.
