Our Leadership

Reanna Ursin

Executive Director

Joining MSON as Executive Director in 2022, Reanna is an educator, scholar, and diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioner. She came to MSON from the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia where she taught high school English and experiential courses, served as liaison to the Governor’s Honors Program, and developed cross-divisional professional development programming. Reanna has held facilitation roles in both the Student and Professional Learning programs at Global Online Academy, and, earlier in her career, she was Assistant Professor in the English department at McDaniel College in Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a B.A. in English from Xavier University of Louisiana, where she was a Beinecke Scholar.

Britta Buehnemann

Consulting Director of Technology

Britta serves as the Consulting Directory of Technology for MSON in addition to her primary role as the Director of Technology for the Stanford Online High School. She has over 20 years of experience in building and managing software systems and technology teams in various industries at large companies and startups. She applies her strong belief in building and supporting user friendly and robust technologies in the educational space with a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction to students and instructors at both the Stanford Online High School and MSON.

Maura Foley

Dean of Instruction

Maura Foley teaches courses in Earth and Climate Science and serves as an Academic Technology Instructional Coach at the Hopkins School (New Haven, CT). As an instructional coach, she facilitates professional development sessions on topics such as artificial intelligence, project-based learning, and technologies such as NearPod, PhET science simulations, TuvaLabs, and Padlet. Maura co-chairs the Senior Project Committee, for which she developed a curriculum introducing students to proposal writing and scaffolding strategies for completing independent work. Moreover, as a former Faculty Mentor in the Penn Graduate School of Education’s Independent School Teaching Residency Program, she is practiced in class observation processes and providing thoughtful feedback to fellow educators.

MSON Steering Committee

The MSON Steering Committee is composed of leaders from several of MSON’s founding and member schools.

Geoff Wagg

Waynflete School, Chair

Ken Aldridge

Wilmington Friends School

Melissa Soderberg

Columbus Academy

Jeff Edmonds

University School of Nashville

Kristi Gibbs

Brownell Talbot School

Tomohiro Hoshi

Stanford Online High School

Matt Glendinning

Hopkins School

Dennis Bisgaard

Maret School

Douglas Lagarde

Severn School

Nat Coffman

The Prairie School

Julien Meyer