Interested in joining our team? WE are not hiring at this time, but are always accepting applications to be kept on file, and will reach out to you as positions become available.

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meet our staff

ALYA STOFFER Koloszyc (she/her)

Alya cares deeply about humanity, this great green earth, and all its inhabitants, past, present, and future. She believes that the revolution is possible; that this revolution starts in our homes and neighborhoods and schools and can begin simply with the way we treat children - our own and others (who are also our own!); and that it is her duty to use her privilege to work for the liberation of all humans, especially the ones who are most marginalized by the capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, colonizer culture that her people created and her country upholds.

Alya takes the following directives very seriously: Angela Davis: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all of the time.” Toni Morrison: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Kazu Haha: “What are YOU going to do to transform the culture of violence?” Jackie Summers: “Dear White friends...Change the culture.”

Alya has a masters degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Bank Street College. She has been teaching in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms in New York City, Vermont, and Massachusetts since 2000. She founded New Village in 2011 when her children were 1 and 3 years old.

ERIN S (she/her)

I joined New Village when it expanded to two classrooms. I feel incredibly lucky to be working with children at a school that makes two of my favorite environments a priority; outside in nature and an intimate classroom with a plethora of open ended toys.  I grew up in Charlemont, MA where I was surrounded by trees, cold streams and rivers, wild creatures, and my parent’s large organic garden.  Building forts and playing mud monster are two of my favorite childhood memories and I aspire to provide young children with the same opportunity to get dirty and explore our natural world.   I gained my undergraduate degree at Clark University in Worcester, MA majoring in Theater with a minor in Communication and Culture.  After college I decided to test my luck as an actress in New York City.  Instead of waitressing, as a lot of struggling artists do, I sought out families who needed childcare.  I substitute taught in Manhattan public elementary schools and ran afterschool programs in Lego Robotics.  I was able to sustain myself this way all the while auditioning and taking several acting jobs; including two children’s theatre tours across the eastern half of the US, several roles with Connecticut Free Shakespeare Company and a wonderful lead role with an Off-Broadway theatre in downtown Manhattan.  Although I felt successful in NYC, after three years of living at its hectic pace, I decided I needed to move to a smaller city and Cambridge MA became my new home.  Within a week of moving to Cambridge I found employment as a substitute teacher at Botanic Gardens Children’s Center, one of the Harvard affiliated childcare centers.   Soon I found myself moving from part time work to full time and becoming more and more involved in the school’s mission, curriculum and community.  My desire to rehearse, audition, and memorize monologues waned as I began to take graduate courses in early education and found myself to be just as passionate about the Reggio Emelia Philosophy as I was about the world of acting.  I was even able to visit the schools of Reggio Emelia, Italy in 2009.  After this trip I was hungry to experience a school that took the Reggio philosophy off the page, worked it through their own cultural lens, and put it into practice.  I found that at Peabody Terrace Children’s Center, another Harvard affiliated school where I spent another 5 years immersing myself in the wonders of early childhood and connecting with families from all over the world.  After 10 years in Cambridge, my country roots drew me back to Western MA where I can easily visit my two nieces, my sister and my parents.  Again it was time to move to a city with a slower pace, Greenfield.  I am grateful to be back frolicking in muddy puddles and planting tiny seeds with big hope, this time as a grownup.  How thrilling to share my joy for the earth, it’s creatures and how we can all learn to live peacefully together.   I passionately believe that it is in these early years that a person’s foundation is created and I feel extremely honored to be a part of helping children in this early time of building life skills.  

Huey Wu (They/Them)

I used to teach elementary school, but I switched to early childhood when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. In early childhood work, I was finally able to live and work by my belief that learning occurs all throughout our lives, not just within a controlled school environment. 

As I do this work, I also understand myself and my past caregivers more and more. I am especially inspired by the deep love and nurturing provided by my nainai, yeye, laolao, and laoye. I try to do what they did: provide nourishment, warmth, and guidance--and then sit back and watch how each child develops and grows. 

Aidn White (he/they)

Aidn's extremely fortunate life path led him from Hampshire College, where he planned to study educational philosophy, into a classroom at the Hampshire College Early Learning Center working with infants. They never looked back. After graduating from Hampshire in 2019 with a BA in Early Childhood Education and from Concordia University-Portland the following year with an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction: ECE, he spent four years working in a mixed-age group of infants and toddlers before finally being blessed with the opportunity to open an infant classroom with New Village.

As a biracial, queer/trans, and disabled educator of an age group that is often overlooked, Aidn prioritizes creating welcoming classroom spaces that foster honest conversation and providing help, care, and community to the families of young children. Working with infants is often as much about taking care of babies as it is about taking care of families, and this is a core tenet of the work Aidn does.

Outside the classroom, Aidn is a reptile lover, an avid cyclist, and a person who can't see a baby without squealing. He has worked closely with Teach Plus Massachusetts, first as a Policy Fellow in 2021-22, then as a Senior Fellow in 2022-23, and now as a member of the Teach Plus CEO Teacher Cabinet in 2023-24. It is critical for them to not only be the best teacher and community member possible for their classroom but also to become a powerhouse in making policy changes and working in advocacy for children and families in Massachusetts and nationwide.