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Beaver Country Day School
175 Hammond St
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 02467
United States

Alyssa Hart

Assistant Athletic Director at Beaver Country Day

Alyssa Hart is the Assistant Director of Athletics at Beaver and has been in the athletic department for the last six years. Before her current role, Alyssa worked as the full-time Athletic Trainer at Beaver. She is passionate about creating equal opportunities for female athletes and empowering young women through movement and sport. In 2022, she made her marathon debut running the NYC Marathon for the Women's Sports Foundation. As an assistant coach for the Beaver 13.1 Team, it is Alyssa's mission to inspire students to set limitless goals for themselves and gain confidence through the sport of running.

Camila Aguilera-Steinert

Student at Beaver Country Day

Camila is a 17-year-old high-school senior at Beaver Country Day School. She was born and raised in Jamaica Plain and is a first-generation Chilean-American. Camila plays ice hockey and softball while maintaining a passion for visual arts.

Hannah Sender

Student at Beaver Country Day School

Hannah is a junior at Beaver Country Day School. Hannah is originally from New York City and currently resides in Newton, MA. Throughout her life, Hannah has observed the environmental and personal aspects that play into one's capability to have empathy and communicate effectively. Hannah is interested in journalism, psychology, music, and fashion design.

Jim Kemp

Student at Beaver Country Day School

Jim Kemp is a senior at Beaver Country Day School from Medfield, MA. He is a member of both the Cross Country and Wrestling teams, an outdoor enthusiast, and a diehard engineer. He's built several robotics projects, his own alarm clock, a motorized swim platform, a slushie machine, and many other items.

Marlon Forrester

Artist and Educator

Marlon Forrester, born in 1976 in Guyana, South America, is an artist and educator raised in Boston, MA. He is a recipient of the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize and his work is in the collection of the ICA/Boston. Forrester is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston B.A. 2008 and Yale School of Art, M.F.A. 2010. He is a resident artist at African American Masters Artist Residency Program (AAMARP), adjunct to the Department of African-American Studies with Northeastern University. He has shown both internationally and nationally. His current body of work explores how through media Pop Culture, and advertisement the black male body is commodified through the sport of basketball. Utilizing his concept of "disequilibrium" he works to deconstruct the rites and rituals found within the game and life through his drawings, paintings, performance and large-scale installations. He is a Beaver parent, with a student in class of 2027.

Sophia Baez

English and History Teacher at Beaver Country Day School

Sophia Baez is a teacher in the English and Global History and Social Science Departments. She is originally fro Miami, FL. As a proud Cuban-American she loves ropa vieja, plátanos maduros, and Pitbull.