Cristina Valensisi
Director of Enrichment and Professional Development
206-221-6112
cvalensi@uw.edu...
Pauly Giuglianotti
TS Precalculus Instructor, and teaches for the Summer Stretch Enrichment Program
pwils@uw.edu
206-543-4160...
Reese Johnston
Lead Transition School Instructor and Summer Stretch Instructor
reesej2@uw.edu
206-543-4160...
A.J. Balatico
Saturday and Summer Enrichment Instructor
A.J. has made it his life’s mission to spread the wildfire of hands-on, minds-on learning to create a better future...
Itza Carbajal
Saturday Enrichment Instructor
A Ph.D. candidate at the UW Information School, Itza focuses on children, memories, trauma, and disaster education...
Paige Reed
Saturday Enrichment and Summer Stretch Instructor
Paige is a passionate educator in all things science!...
Sanjana Ramesh
Summer Stretch & Saturday Instructor
Sanjana's approach to teaching is equity-oriented and attempts to humanize both students and instructors...
Shawon Riffat Ara
Saturday Enrichment and Summer Stretch Instructor
Shawon's journey in healthcare has been marked by significant clinical roles and impactful epidemiological research...
Eliza Knepler
liza is passionate about learning and has a strong desire to empower students to fully utilize their academic abilities...
Gust Burns
Summer Stretch Instructor
Gust, a writer and musician, returns to teach a creative writing course in memoir...
Jack Flesher
Summer Stretch Instructor
Jack is currently completing his dissertation on children's philosophical and musical cultures...
Liza Birnbaum
Summer Stretch Instructor
Liza holds an M.F.A. in fiction from UMass Amherst and teaches academic and creative writing...
Rebecca Habtour
Summer Stretch Instructor
Rebecca delights in empowering students to more ably observe, understand, design, & reshape the world...
Thomas Ames
Summer Stretch Instructor
Thomas has a B.S. in Mathematics and a Master’s in Accounting and teaches Algebra and Geometry...
Truman Buffett
Summer Stretch Instructor
Truman will once again teach a fast-paced course in Geometry ...
Alex Henry
Summer Stretch Instructor
Alex Henry (they/them) is a current graduate student and instructor in the English Language & Rhetoric Program at UW...
Grace Edwards
Summer Stretch Instructor
Grace Edwards a physics and chemistry teacher at Franklin High School...
Sarah-Kate Moore
Summer Stretch Instructor
Sarah Kate Moore holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Literature, and an MA in French from the UW...
Reginald Kent
Summer Stretch Instructor
Reggie Kent is a published author with an M.A. in English Literature. He is an M.F.A. student in Creative Writing at UW...
James "Jym" Kinney
Summer Stretch Instructor
“At their heart, math, science, and theatre are the same. They are all telling a story."...
Jean Lutgen
Summer Stretch Instructor
Jean is a proud native Seattlite who is looking forward to her 20th year teaching Summer Stretch!...
Michelle Nguyen
Summer Stretch Instructor
Michelle has competed in mock trial at both the high school and collegiate levels and has won numerous titles and awards...
Becca Pilcher
Summer Stretch Instructor
Becca's goal is to find the ways in which language and art can converge to broaden the written word...
Jeannine Sieler
Summer Stretch Instructor
Jeannine has been teaching Chemistry and AP Chemistry for almost 40 years...
Nina Sobers
Summer Stretch Instructor
Nina is an instructor for the English Department, teaching composition, argumentation, research, and literary analysis...
Melvin Soetrisno
Summer Stretch Instructor
Melvin once took the Stretch Chemistry course that he now teaches! ...
Matt Stewart
Summer Stretch Instructor
Matt taught HS biology and physics for 11 years and now focuses on science education and creating equitable classrooms...
Stephen Thornsberry
Summer Stretch Instructor
Stephen hopes young scholars from the program become active members of the local speech and debate community...
Yen-Chu Weng
Summer Stretch Instructor
Dr. Weng is passionate about understanding and representing the world through numbers, maps, and data analytics...
Louis Zheng
Summer Stretch Instructor
Louis loves talking about politics and the Supreme Court, especially how judicial precedent affects the underrepresented...