Diana Goldberg
Diana Goldberg grew up in Chicago, IL. She dreamt of being an English teacher since she was 5 years old. She grew up playing sports, playing music, and performing in any theater production she could. She followed her dream to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she got her degree in Secondary English Education.
When she was in college, she spent a summer teaching English and living and exploring in Ecuador. It was the first time she saw mountains and got to live fully amongst the earth. From there, she began her time as a summer camp counselor at Camp Augusta in Nevada City, CA. While running the Junior Counselor program there, she was able to take her first Backpacking trip and fell in LOVE with the wilderness.
Today, Diana is a proud English teacher and Backpacking enthusiast. She has been an educator in the bay area for 10 years. She taught in Hayward and then become the lead teacher of the Team Program at Tamiscal HS starting in 2017. She has been working at Archie Williams High School since 2020 and is excited to launch this new expanded model of Team!
Diana currently lives in Oakland with her partner Eddy. She spends her after school time hiking her favorite trails , lifting weights, reading books, and connecting with community near and far. She truly believes Team is the most transformative program for young people and can’t wait to help more teens connect with the healing powers of nature and their lifelong goals!
Jasper Thelin
Jasper Starfire Thelin, born in Forest Knolls, San Geronimo Valley in the Lagunitas Creek watershed, and has traversed the wilds of West Marin ever since. His early education was at the Open Classroom of Lagunitas School District. Jasper then attended our very own High School, graduating in 1987, where he played baseball, basketball, and football, took four years of Drama, was sophomore class president and edited the Sports and Feature pages of the school newspaper.
He graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz with his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts, with Porter College honors. He earned his teacher credential at Dominican University, and holds Single Subject Teacher credentials in English and in Art.
He taught Art, Drama, Intro to Computers, and Community Service for 20 years in the mixed-age, cross-curricular, project-based learning Revolution Of Core Knowledge program at AWHS. Jasper has worked as a counselor, teacher and performance coordinator, and staff trainer at Camp Winnarainbow since 1992 as well as being the program director at Camp Eureka in north Idaho, and Camp Avary. He is currently on the Advisory Board of Project AVARY; Alternate Venture for At Risk Youth, which is a camp for kids whose parents are or have been incarcerated. With his wife Mia Terziev, he has two children, Cyrus and Willow. A key event which helped him learn to appreciate each moment of life was when had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 1997.