Faculty and Staff Directory

To search for faculty and staff contact information, please select a department from the menu below on the left. Alternatively, you can use the menu on the right to search faculty and staff using the first initial of the person’s last name.

To reach a member of the faculty or staff via telephone, dial 805-640-3201, followed by your party’s extension.

Faculty & Staff Directory

  • Ms. Kristina Calamia RN
    Registered Nurse, Health Center Staff
    805-646-2439
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    Mr. Jesus Carbajal
    Maintenance Technician
    (805) 640-3230
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    Mr. Jason Carney
    Afternoon Program Director, History Teacher
    805-640-3201
    Villanova University - BA
    University of Hawaii - MEd
    Bio
     
    Jason teaches two sections of history, advises, and chairs the School's Voices and Perspectives Committee. While at Thacher, Jason has served as History Department chair, dormitory head for three dorms, a senior admission officer, and dean of faculty. He has also developed curriculum for many history courses, including Honors U.S. History and Honors Contemporary Ethical Issues. Additionally, Jason has coached the varsity boys’ basketball team since 2002 and, along with receiving league honors, was a CIF Coach-of-the-Year recipient. 
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    Ms. Megan Carney
    Director of Student Life
    805-646-4377
    Princeton University - AB
    Harvard University - EdM
    Bio
     
    At Thacher since 2001, Megan has worked as an Advanced Psychology and English teacher, an admission associate, and a dorm head. Within her role as Director of Student Life, Megan plays a central role in developing policy, vision, and programming for residential life, student health and wellness, the advisor program, and student leadership; additionally, she works closely with the Director of Studies, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Director of Counseling and Wellness, and Student Activities Coordinator to build curriculum and systems that best serve students in becoming resilient, hardworking, passionate, and empathetic thinkers and leaders at Thacher and beyond. Most importantly, Megan strives to be a trusted adult for students as well as a source of empowerment, clarity, and optimism during their critical adolescent years. 

    Megan graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and went on to earn her A.B. from Princeton University and her M.Ed. from The Harvard School of Education. Before moving to Thacher, she worked at The Baylor School (Chattanooga, Tennessee) as a counselor and at Dana Hall School (Wellesley, Massachusetts) as an English teacher. Megan lives in Ojai with her husband and three children, two Thacher graduates and a current junior. 
  • Mr. Jesus Ceja
  • Ms. Lauren Cerre
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    Ms. Nicole Chung
    Science Department
    Bio
     
    Ms. Nicole Chung is a Fisher Fellow in the Science Department. She graduated from Amherst this past spring, with a degree in chemistry and education. While at Amherst she played important roles in the college’s ongoing efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion and health and wellness.
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    Mr. Roberto Contreras
    Groundskeeper
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    Mr. Jake Conway
    Bio
     
    After graduating from Yale with a degree in history, Jake headed west to start his career in Silicon Valley where he worked at Google and Square. At Thacher, Jake teaches advanced economics and modern Middle Eastern history, advises juniors and coaches basketball, tennis and debate. Before joining the Thacher faculty, he taught at School Year Abroad in Beijing and Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jake has completed coursework in microeconomic theory at the London School of Economics. He is from West Hartford, Connecticut.
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    Mr. Scott Cooper
    Director of Alumni and Community Engagement
    805-640-3225 x225
    Bio
     
    Scott Cooper, a born and raised Midwesterner, came to Thacher in 2023 as the Director of Alumni and Community Engagement. Scott is looking forward to utilizing his professional experience in Alumni Engagement at an institution that educationally incorporates his favorite personal passion; horses. Scott previously served in alumni relations roles at The Webb Schools, Touro University California, and his alma mater, Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN. Also being a graduate of a boarding school in Michigan, Scott enjoys the community and culture of independent schools. Scott and his husband Craig live locally with their dogs, Chloe and Suggs, and horse, Chip. In his spare time, you can find Scott hiking with his dogs, competing on his horse, playing pickleball with his husband, or watching any college football game.
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    Mr. José Cortez
    Groundskeeper
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    Ms. Hayley Crosby RN
    Registered Nurse, Health Center Staff
    805-646-2439
    Bio
     
    Starting her career at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara in 2011, Hayley worked in medical surgical units before joining the Operating Room team at Community Memorial Hospital. Growing up in Ventura County and attending St Bonaventure High School, she was happy to be serving her community as a registered nurse.  
     
    Finding herself at Thacher as a school nurse has been such a wonderful blessing to her and her family, her husband Clay who is a firefighter in Santa Monica and her have three kids, Jackson (9) and the twins Cameron and Sophie (4).  When she is not at work as a nurse or as a busy mamma you can find her teaching spin classes throughout the Ojai Valley. She is thrilled to be a part of the Thacher Community and such a wonderful team in the Health Center.
A college preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12
5025 Thacher Road
Ojai, California, 93023
Tel: 805-646-4377 Fax: 805-646-9490 Email: info@thacher.org 
Notice of nondiscriminatory policy as to students: The Thacher School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other School-administered programs.