Welcome, New Faculty

Each fall, Roxbury Latin welcomes a new cohort of faculty, staff, and students to campus. This year, three full-time faculty members join RL’s roster of educators, coaches, advisors, and community members.

Mysha Kuhlmann will be RL’s first Director of Counseling. Ms. Kuhlmann is a remarkable educator who comes to us with a deep well of experience and understanding in the field of school counseling. She has spent the past four years as Director of Counseling and School Psychologist at Thayer Academy; before that, she served for four years as the school psychologist in Andover Public High Schools; and prior to that she spent four years as the school psychologist and counselor at Rockport Middle Schools. In those roles she has counseled students, developed programming for students and faculty and parents, supervised counselors, created academic support plans, advised students, and mentored a variety of groups. Most fittingly, Ms. Kuhlmann has always been in schools, beginning her career as a middle school English teacher, science teacher, and learning specialist at KIPP charter schools in Houston, Texas, and Lynn, Massachusetts, as well as serving as a fifth-grade homeroom teacher in Boston Public Schools. Hailing originally from the Lone Star State, Ms. Kuhlmann holds a B.S. in applied learning and development from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in special education from Loyola Marymount University, and an Ed.S. in school psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. We are excited not only about the new position but also the person filling it: Ms. Kuhlmann will enhance the Roxbury Latin community.

Sophie Brett joins the long line of distinguished educators at RL to have graduated from Bowdoin College. With a B.A. in neuroscience and education and a minor in computer science, Ms. Brett brings a scholar’s approach to the classroom as well as a teacher’s. She has served as a research fellow at the Temple Center for High Performance Computing and a researcher at Bowdoin’s SciEPlay Project, as well as a substitute teacher in the Brunswick, Maine, school system and a tutor in the Bowdoin chemistry department. Her extracurricular involvement and leadership runs deep, as well: not only was she the head proctor in the Office of Residential Life at Bowdoin but she is a four-year letter winner for both the Bowdoin women’s varsity sailing and lacrosse teams (thus, eight letters!) and was selected as captain of the lacrosse team this past year. With her wide-ranging experiences, Ms. Brett will teach IPS and Science and Technology, and she will help coach junior varsity soccer and lacrosse.

Katie Armstrong arrives at 101 St. Theresa Ave. fresh from the reaches of western Massachusetts as a recent alumna of Williams College, where she majored in English and psychology, was a member of the varsity women’s ice hockey team, and earned honors as a two-year NESCAC All-Academic. For someone her age, Ms. Armstrong has a remarkable amount of experience working with young people, having served as a teaching fellow for three years at North Adams Greylock Elementary School; taught introductory courses as a Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs teaching intern; mentored high school students looking to play collegiate hockey; and been a counselor and director at the Belmont Hill School Summer Camp for six summers. No stranger to independent schools, Ms. Armstrong is a proud alum of Nobles (for which we will forgive her), where she was a member of the Cum Laude Society, co-captain of the varsity ice hockey and softball teams, and the recipient of the Davis Cup for sportsmanship. Ms. Armstrong will teach Class VI history and Class V English and will help coach junior soccer and thirds ice hockey.

Roxbury Latin is also the beneficiary of a remarkably talented group of faculty and staff, all of whom are willing to serve in many roles. To that end, the following familiar individuals will take on additional responsibilities at the school.

Elizabeth Carroll will take on the role of Dean of Academics, in which she will help envision, oversee, and implement the school’s academic curriculum, from course selection and scheduling to grading and communication to course offerings.

Meredith Reynolds will become the Co-Director of the College Guidance Office, a position suited to her experience and contributions to that important element of school life as a thoughtful, innovative, and caring advocate for RL boys and our school.

Sarah Demers will take on the role of Class VI Dean, extending her expert and loving care for the Sixie class as they learn how to be Roxbury Latin boys.

Chris Brown, a former Penn Fellow himself and the assistant director of the program the past few years, will take on the role of Director of our Penn Fellows Program.

Jim Ryan, with his steadfast and lifelong commitment to serving those around him, as well as his organizational talents, will take on the role of Director of Community Service.