Molly Yurchak - Secretary
Molly Foran Yurchak teaches ninth through twelfth grade English and a course she designed on the arts and writing of Black women in America, at Westridge School for Girls. She holds a BA in English from Colgate University and an MA in English from Middlebury College. Molly is a former guide of Oak Knoll’s adolescent program; she also served OKMS for many years as chair of its annual fund and more recently on the Head of School search committee.
Molly’s Montessori journey begins with her parents, who co-founded Montessori schools in Hanover, NH, and Buffalo, NY. Before she was three, Molly entered Buffalo’s public, magnet Bennett Park Montessori and graduated from its adolescent program in 1988. After eight years away from Montessori for high school and college, she began a career in school administration at Turning Point School, now in Culver City, a Montessori-based program formerly known as Montessori of West Los Angeles. After serving as Turning Point’s Director of Admissions and Communications, she moved to New York, where she served as the Director of External Relations at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School. While working at BHMS, she began a long-standing relationship with the American Montessori Society, for which she continues to serve as a Communications Consultant.
Molly and her husband Mike are the proud parents of Luca, OKMS Class of 2019, now a junior at La Salle College Preparatory, and Sascha, who will graduate from OKMS’s adolescent program this spring. In her spare time Molly reads, cooks and bakes, tends a domestic and farm animal menagerie, and roots, with eternal hope, for the Buffalo Bills.