Board of Directors

Jan Berman was the President and Chief Operating Officer of MechoShade Systems, Inc., until February 2018. He is now spending his time supporting Camphill Village via his position on the Board, as well as enjoying membership on the boards of two other organizations: The Building Energy Exchange based in NYC and the Cradle to Cradle Institute for Product Innovation based in Washington DC.

Jan literally grew up in the business founded by his father, Joel Berman, the creator of the solar shade industry as we know it today.

Jan graduated from Ithaca College in 1980 with a BS in accounting. After receiving his CPA, Jan joined MechoShade in 1982. Throughout his career, Mr. Berman has worked closely with many of the leading designers and architects in helping develop solar shading solutions to their unique building designs and projects.

Jan has worked in product development, implementing ideas resulting from his work with the design community, and helped develop new shade control systems and shade cloths that have both been honored with design awards.

Jan was promoted to President in 1999. Since that time, he has overseen the growth of MechoShade as the leading manufacturer of solar shading worldwide, overseeing increases in manufacturing capacity and expanding to international markets.

His efforts put MechoShade products at the forefront of Green Building and Sustainable Design. He spearheaded the development of various “Cradle to Cradle” products, including certification of its MechoShade products the first of its kind in the world.

Jan has been an invited speaker on daylighting and façade automation for sustainable design at such national venues as NeoCon, the Center for Architecture in New York City, the High-Performance Green Building Design Salon, LightFair both in New York and in Las Vegas, and was a member of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s Dynamic Façade working group.

Jan is on the board of Directors of the Cradle to Cradle Institute for Product Innovation and the Building Energy Exchange (BeeX of NYC). He is also a minority shareholder and board member in three ventures: Digital Matrix, Inc., KleenEdge Systems LLC, and STretchWall, LLC.

Jan loves skiing, fishing, tennis and hiking, and unfortunately, the Mets.

He and his wife Judy, have two children, one grandchild and live in Wilton, Ct.

John Carroll is an attorney who resides in Malden Bridge, New York.

He served for many years on the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Mental and Physical Disabilities and he has written and lectured extensively on the legal rights of people with disabilities.

He has been a member of the Board of Camphill Ghent since 2013 and served most recently as its president.

He has also served as a volunteer firefighter, EMT, treasurer and vice-president of the Tri-Village Fire Company, as president of the Rider’s Mills and Columbia County Historical Societies, the Old Chatham Hunt Club, and as vice-president of the Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham, NY and has served on the boards of various not-for-profit and civic organizations in Columbia County, New York.

He holds an A.B. Degree from Vassar College, a M.A. from the University of Leicester, an MBA from Albany University and a J.D. from the Albany Law School of Union University.

Gabriella Sperry held executive positions in Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, International Telephone and Telegraph, Estee Lauder, Revlon, and News Corporation for over 30 years. During her career she was Vice President of Marketing for various consumer goods and cosmetic brands and also Publisher of European Travel and Life magazines.Gabriella has a B.S. in chemistry and an MBA from the Stern School of New York University.

For 20 years, Gabriella served on the Board of the International Center in N.Y., a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching conversational English and American culture to immigrants. She also served on the Board of The Doane Stuart School in Albany for ten years.

Gabriella joined the Board of Camphill Village USA, Inc. and the Board of Camphill Ghent, Inc. in 2012.

Gabriella Sperry lives in Malden Bridge, N.Y. with her two children.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science from Colorado State University. Her interest in this field was discovered through her work as a Nutritionist at Foothills Gateway CoARC in Colorado, which is the area’s support for individuals with developmental disabilities and and their families.Rose visited Camphill Village USA in 2010, and was intrigued to find how people were flourishing in such a different way of life. She jumped at the chance to make this her home. Originally an Americorps volunteer, Rose’s experience at the Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seed Initiative morphed into a life as a house leader in Tamarack House in March of 2012.

Rose has been involved in a multitude of activities to help further the development and growth of this multifaceted community. Some of this work includes involvement within the Design Group and Master Plan Executive Committee, as well as participation as a member of the Camphill Academy’s Core Faculty over the past year. She’s also in the Village’s Admissions and Advocacy groups, and serves as Camphill’s Director of Infrastructure.

Rose has been CHV’s delegate to the North American Council for Anthroposophic Curative Education and Social Therapy, organizing a group to travel each year to an annual conference in member communities around the country. She has also been an active member of the community’s central Copake Circle for the last 6 years.

After college in China, Seeya worked as a social compliance specialist, ensuring the wellbeing of workers in different industries for eight years in China. She then traveled for a year in New Zealand, where she became acquainted with anthroposophy and the Waldorf school system. In 2012, Seeya moved to the US and joined Camphill Village in Copake, where she currently resides with her husband Nico Christiansen and their young son Kilian.

Seeya has been running the Village Weavery since 2014, and a house leader in Undina‑one of the Village care houses‑since 2016. Seeya completed the Camphill Academy’s social therapy program with a professional diploma in social therapy following five years of required study in 2017. Seeya’s years in Camphill Village have been transformative; she has learned more about herself, spiritual life, and fellow human beings than she ever thought possible.

Seeya is currently a member of the Focus Group, one of the decision-making bodies in Camphill Village.

Since 2015 Bill has served as Camphill’s chief financial officer and assistant treasurer, leading a department of four dedicated finance professionals. Bill is a certified public accountant, having worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for 10 years, managing financial statement audits for a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit clients. Bill also led finance departments for the North American operations of international manufacturing companies including the German brake company, Knorr-Bremse AG, and a Spanish power transformer & communications company, Albatros S.L.

Bill served on the board of St. Thomas the Apostle School in Delmar, NY, including four years as the president, and is the medical readiness NCO for the 109^th Air Wing in the New York Air National Guard.

Bill earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from SUNY Geneseo and he has an Associate degree in Health Services Management from the Community College of the Air Force.

David originally hails from Orange County, NY. He earned a bachelors in accounting in 2010 from Marist College followed by his MBA for accountants in 2011. He joined Camphill Ghent as a member of the finance office shortly after the organization’s opening in 2012, and he officially joined Camphill Village Copake in early 2014. As the longest tenured member of the finance office, his role has expanded to be the Assistant Treasurer for Camphill Ghent, Camphill Village Copake & Camphill Village Copake Foundation.

Bio coming soon.

Ted has been Executive Director of Camphill Village Copake since May 2025.

After high school in the UK, Ted completed a two-year apprenticeship program in biodynamic agriculture in 2008. He then spent a year on a commercial farm in England, supplying the farm markets in London. In 2009, Ted moved to the US and joined Camphill Village in Copake, New York, where he currently resides with his wife Lia Babitch and their two young girls, Eleanor and Hazel.

Ted completed the Social Therapy program with a Professional Diploma as a Social Therapist and plans to complete the BA program. As of September 2018, Ted has joined the Core Faculty of the Social Therapy program as both a core faculty member and course instructor.

Ted has worked as a farmer, gardener, stained glass artist, and Camphill Village Gift Shop and Coffee Shop workmaster. Ted is continues as a house leader, and is our Ficus Group member in charge of Finance.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science from Colorado State University. Her interest in this field was discovered through her work as a Nutritionist at Foothills Gateway CoARC in Colorado, which is the area’s support for individuals with developmental disabilities and and their families.Rose visited Camphill Village USA in 2010, and was intrigued to find how people were flourishing in such a different way of life. She jumped at the chance to make this her home. Originally an Americorps volunteer, Rose’s experience at the Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seed Initiative morphed into a life as a house leader in Tamarack House in March of 2012.

Rose has been involved in a multitude of activities to help further the development and growth of this multifaceted community. Some of this work includes involvement within the Design Group and Master Plan Executive Committee, as well as participation as a member of the Camphill Academy’s Core Faculty over the past year. She’s also in the Village’s Admissions and Advocacy groups, and serves as Camphill’s Director of Infrastructure.

Rose has been CHV’s delegate to the North American Council for Anthroposophic Curative Education and Social Therapy, organizing a group to travel each year to an annual conference in member communities around the country. She has also been an active member of the community’s central Copake Circle for the last 6 years.

Jan Berman was the President and Chief Operating Officer of MechoShade Systems, Inc., until February 2018. He is now spending his time supporting Camphill Village via his position on the Board, as well as enjoying membership on the boards of two other organizations: The Building Energy Exchange based in NYC and the Cradle to Cradle Institute for Product Innovation based in Washington DC.

Jan literally grew up in the business founded by his father, Joel Berman, the creator of the solar shade industry as we know it today.

Jan graduated from Ithaca College in 1980 with a BS in accounting. After receiving his CPA, Jan joined MechoShade in 1982. Throughout his career, Mr. Berman has worked closely with many of the leading designers and architects in helping develop solar shading solutions to their unique building designs and projects.

Jan has worked in product development, implementing ideas resulting from his work with the design community, and helped develop new shade control systems and shade cloths that have both been honored with design awards.

Jan was promoted to President in 1999. Since that time, he has overseen the growth of MechoShade as the leading manufacturer of solar shading worldwide, overseeing increases in manufacturing capacity and expanding to international markets.

His efforts put MechoShade products at the forefront of Green Building and Sustainable Design. He spearheaded the development of various “Cradle to Cradle” products, including certification of its MechoShade products the first of its kind in the world.

Jan has been an invited speaker on daylighting and façade automation for sustainable design at such national venues as NeoCon, the Center for Architecture in New York City, the High-Performance Green Building Design Salon, LightFair both in New York and in Las Vegas, and was a member of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s Dynamic Façade working group.

Jan is on the board of Directors of the Cradle to Cradle Institute for Product Innovation and the Building Energy Exchange (BeeX of NYC). He is also a minority shareholder and board member in three ventures: Digital Matrix, Inc., KleenEdge Systems LLC, and STretchWall, LLC.

Jan loves skiing, fishing, tennis and hiking, and unfortunately, the Mets.

He and his wife Judy, have two children, one grandchild and live in Wilton, Ct.

Melinda Brown is a financial expert and Audit Committee Chairman, with over 40 years of accounting and financial experience with publicly traded global consumer product and luxury retail companies.  She has significant leadership experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, integrations divestitures, capital market financings, global systems transformation, change management, enterprise risk management, governance, and project management.

Melinda was Senior Vice President and Controller of Tapestry, Inc. from September 2012 until her retirement in March 2019.  During her tenure, she played a key role in all major initiatives, including the acquisition and integration of Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, major business and technology transformations, and a complete redesign of finance, control, and audit organizations. Melinda grew a high-performing organization with a deep bench and empowered culture, poised to drive a growing multi-brand business. Melinda’s leadership earned her and her team a meaningful seat at the leadership table.

Prior to Tapestry, Melinda spent 30 years with PepsiCo, Inc. in both their corporate office and the North America beverage segment, providing her the exposure and opportunity to proactively influence outcomes and build capabilities.  She was a key member of the leadership team responsible for nearly 50 bottler acquisitions and integrations, the spin-offs of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, the bottler spin-off and re-acquisition, and the acquisitions and integrations of Gatorade, Quaker, and Tropicana.  As Controller of Pepsi’s $20 billion multi-brand North America Beverage segment, Melinda also served as the Business Lead for a multi-functional, multi-year North America SAP implementation, which, at the time, was the largest SAP roll-out ever and piloted their first enterprise risk management program.   In Melinda’s final role, she led the company’s North America shared services centers, and developed PepsiCo’s global outsourcing strategy and business case, which was subsequently executed, and established the global finance productivity office.

Melinda began her career working in public accounting in 1977, and the FASB in 1980.  She holds a Bachelor of Science and MBA, both from the University of Connecticut. Melinda is Chair of the audit committee and independent board member for Precision Biosciences, Inc., a Nasdaq traded company.   She is an Emeritus Chair of the UCONN Foundation Board, also previously serving as the Audit Committee Chair and a member of their Executive and Finance Committees.    She is a CPA and member of the AICPA and Connecticut Society of CPAs.

John Carroll is an attorney who resides in Malden Bridge, New York.

He served for many years on the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Mental and Physical Disabilities and he has written and lectured extensively on the legal rights of people with disabilities.

He has been a member of the Board of Camphill Ghent since 2013 and served most recently as its president.

He has also served as a volunteer firefighter, EMT, treasurer and vice-president of the Tri-Village Fire Company, as president of the Rider’s Mills and Columbia County Historical Societies, the Old Chatham Hunt Club, and as vice-president of the Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham, NY and has served on the boards of various not-for-profit and civic organizations in Columbia County, New York.

He holds an A.B. Degree from Vassar College, a M.A. from the University of Leicester, an MBA from Albany University and a J.D. from the Albany Law School of Union University.

Joel spent nearly forty years in the financial services industry at several firms including JPMorgan where he was a Managing Director and co-head of Private Banking. He retired from the industry in 2008. He has served on a variety of boards including those with educational, religious, and environmental orientations. He is a member of Camphill Foundation, the investment committee of the Board. He is a long-time resident of New York City, but also spends considerable time in Northwest Connecticut. He is married with three children and two grandchildren.

Bio coming soon.

Brooke has had many responsibilities since she moved to Camphill Village from Rochester, NY in 2007. She has been a member of the Village Writers Guild, Poetry Group, Love and Compassion Group, the Supreme 7, and is a secretary for the Village Forum. Brooke was also a trustee of the Camphill Association of North America (CANA), in which capacity she traveled to different Camphill communities (including Canada) and conveyed the information she learned there to Camphill Copake. Brooke has attended and helped organize the annual Camphill Foundation gala several times as a representative of the Village, and has also traveled to Washington D.C. for the purpose of advocating for a person’s right to choose to live in Camphill Village. Brooke has also traveled to India with Roswitha and Kumar Mal.

“I have had numerous opportunities that helped me to achieve who I am today,” she says. “In Camphill Copake I am in several important groups that help me to not only grow but to spread important information around the Village and to the public.”

She currently lives in Brookledge House, and works in the Bookbindery, the Coffee Shop, and the Village Co-op. “In the Bookbindery I like being able to be artistic, and whatever I make makes a difference in the world, and I like having people together in one place,” she says. “In the Coffee Shop I’m able to do a bit of everything. I do a lot of the library organizing and I like that. That’s one of the things I’m good at is organizing. In the past I did things with the library in Rochester.”

Brooke also has two siblings, four nephews, and a niece that she is close to. She frequently visits her parents in Rochester, but looks forward to her busier days at Camphill Village.

“Even though it can be a little overwhelming at times, it helps with my self worth and my ability to make a difference in the Village and outside the Village,” she says. “I like to spend the night typing up all of the minutes and notes that need to be sent out. It helps me understand how we do things in the Village. I love my life and I want to be known as a dedicated, responsible, outgoing person who will do anything to help others.”

Nadja was raised in a Parisian suburb, and spent five years working at the Perceval Waldorf school in Switzerland before coming to Camphill Village Copake in 2000 with her husband Marc and a one-year-old son. The couple has raised their three wonderful children in Camphill Village.

Nadja has two brothers with special needs, and was already well acquainted with the Camphill Movement before arriving, having attended many celebrations and festivals. Nadja has always been a dedicated homemaker in Camphill Village, working to create a warm and welcoming space and finding great satisfaction in preparing wholesome meals each day. Life in Camphill Village is not always harmonious, of course, and Bible evenings in the Village are some of the most peaceful moments in the home.

“You clean the house for Bible evening, you have changed your flowers, and you have Bible evening,” she said. “Our Saturday Bible evening is actually a listening space where people say a positive thing from their week and we figure out what was special.”

Nadja enjoys continuing her education in Camphill; she has performed therapeutic oil emersion baths for our community members, and also completed her five-year curative eurythmy training, as well as two years of training in Spring Valley, NY. “I have a love for eurythmy and I make it part of my life,” she said. Nadja is also involved in the Camphill Academy, where she instructs students in puppetry.

Nadja became a member of the Village Focus Group in the summer of 2024.

Bio coming soon.

Kristina was born and raised in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania where she enjoyed long walks along the river and began writing poems about nature. Since grade school, she has been an avid singer, joining any choruses available in her midst. She graduated from Bloomsburg University with a Bachelor’s Degree in both English and Geography and then decided to go west for a few years to hike in The Rocky Mountains. It was there she heard of Camphill, moved back east to The Camphill Special School, and began her journey as a Camphill Lady.

After one year at The Camphill School in Pennsylvania, Kristina moved to Perceval, a Camphill Community in Switzerland, where she remained for three years. Then she and her young daughter moved to Camphill Copake. Kristina completed the social therapy program offered through the Camphill Academy and entered into a long period of work which included householding, teaching poetry in The Academy, joining the The Copake Circle and other committees, and furthering advocacy efforts on behalf of Camphill Copake. She remained in The Village for around 15 years.

Seven years ago, she and her family moved to Camphill Ghent where Kristina has had the joy of launching meaningful activities with and for the elders who reside there. She is also a resident coworker and helps maintain the mission as a Camphill Community which supports elders. She currently continues to love singing in The Camphill Ghent Choir, leads a weekly poetry session, and is at the helm of interfaith work both in her Camphill Ghent Community and in the neighborhood. She looks forward to bringing her decades of Camphill experience to fruition as she takes up her work on the board.

Mr. Lee is one of the most successful legal practitioners in the United States and has been designated as class counsel in over 150 class actions throughout the United States. He has also been designated as an arbitrator through the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and has been invited to serve as a judge for moot court competitions at leading law schools across the United States.

Prior to establishing his litigation practice, Mr. Lee was a corporate attorney with Clifford Chance and Schulte Roth & Zabel, a private equity banker with HSBC in Hong Kong, and a venture capitalist with AsiaTech Ventures.

Mr. Lee is active in the disability community, having served as a board member of The ECUAL Foundation and previously as a board member of The Shield Institute. He has also made cy pres donations to more than 20 organizations supporting individuals with disabilities.

Laure McIlroy lives in Summit, NJ with her husband Bill. She was a stay-at-home mother for 20 years while raising their six children, and then returned to school to become a behavioral health nurse in 2007. She and Bill are now retired and enjoy traveling and spending time with their children and grandchildren. Their son, Billy, has lived in Camphill Village Copake since 2018.

Phil Schaffer is an accomplished strategic general manager with more than 15 years of experience in sales, general management, and marketing. Having gained extensive retail experience while working with Aldi and Edeka, the largest German retailer, Phil joined Kellogg in 2014 as the Northern Europe Process Optimization Manager. He was quickly promoted to Sales Director Sweden/Central Eastern Europe, where he led change in route-to-market in Sweden and drove positive business development.

In 2016, Phil moved to Kellogg’s European Cereal Business Unit in Dublin, where he worked as the Commercial Strategy Director. During his time in Europe, Phil made a significant contribution to the evolution of the commercial strategy agenda.

In 2018, Phil and his family relocated to the US to lead the Pop-Tarts Business, where he has successfully led the brand to unprecedented sales growth, launching multiple new innovation platforms, optimizing price/pack architecture, supply chain, seasonal strategy, and revenue growth management.

In December 2020, Phil was promoted to General Manager of Frozen Foods, where he leads everything related to Eggo and (since ‘23) MorningStarFarms. He oversees all commercial functions as well as the strategy and execution behind these iconic US brands. His sales background and understanding of efficiencies have enabled Phil and his team to continuously grow the business.

Phil graduated from Reutlingen University in Germany and has an MBA from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He has successfully completed Executive Leadership Trainings from both Harvard Business School (Boston, USA) and Northwestern University (Chicago, USA). He is fluent in Spanish and enjoys travel and live music.

Phil has a special connection with Camphill Village and feels like he is coming home serving on the board. He was a coworker in 2001/2002 and stayed in touch with the Village over the years. Back then, he lived in Aillinn House and worked full-time in the Woodshop together with Kerst de Jong. Phil initiated Camphill’s first online sales when he set up an eBay page for wooden toys in 2001. Recently, Phil and his family visited the Village, and they loved the experience. His two-year-old daughter, Mia, fell in love with all the friendly people, animals, workspaces, and golf carts, which didn’t exist when Phil worked at Camphill more than 20 years ago.

Gabriella Sperry held executive positions in Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, International Telephone and Telegraph, Estee Lauder, Revlon, and News Corporation for over 30 years. During her career she was Vice President of Marketing for various consumer goods and cosmetic brands and also Publisher of European Travel and Life magazines.Gabriella has a B.S. in chemistry and an MBA from the Stern School of New York University.

For 20 years, Gabriella served on the Board of the International Center in N.Y., a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching conversational English and American culture to immigrants. She also served on the Board of The Doane Stuart School in Albany for ten years.

Gabriella joined the Board of Camphill Village USA, Inc. and the Board of Camphill Ghent, Inc. in 2012.

Gabriella Sperry lives in Malden Bridge, N.Y. with her two children.

Jos was born in the Netherlands where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He was employed for 10 years by Royal Dutch Shell in their computer department and in 1982 he was sent to the United Kingdom to assist the IT-team at Teesport Refinery in Middlesborough, North Yorkshire.

It was Anke (a registered nurse), Jos’s spouse, who became a day volunteer at Camphill Botton Village and over the span of 2 years the connection with Botton increased and in March of 1984 they moved to Camphill Botton Village and Jos resigned from his job at Shell. They became the homemakers of Rowan house and Jos became head of the maintenance department with 20-plus employees.

In 2001 they moved to Camphill Village Copake with their 5 children where they became the homemakers in Juniper house. Jos took on the responsibility for the maintenance department and was project leader on most of the construction and infrastructure projects, was the chair of the Master Plan Executive committee from 2010 to 2018 and was a member of the Focus group from 2012 to 2017. He has been a member of the Camphill Ghent Board (now merged with Camphill Village’s Board) since 2013.

Jos and Anke moved to Balsam house in 2013 and Jos passed on responsibility for the maintenance department in 2018. He is a member of the Village Residential Planning group and of Building & Maintenance group, the Finance committee and the Future Need committee.

In his spare time Jos enjoys to spend time with his children and grandchildren, traveling with their RV, running and bicycling.

Ted has been Executive Director of Camphill Village Copake since May 2025.

After high school in the UK, Ted completed a two-year apprenticeship program in biodynamic agriculture in 2008. He then spent a year on a commercial farm in England, supplying the farm markets in London. In 2009, Ted moved to the US and joined Camphill Village in Copake, New York, where he currently resides with his wife Lia Babitch and their two young girls, Eleanor and Hazel.

Ted completed the Social Therapy program with a Professional Diploma as a Social Therapist and plans to complete the BA program. As of September 2018, Ted has joined the Core Faculty of the Social Therapy program as both a core faculty member and course instructor.

Ted has worked as a farmer, gardener, stained glass artist, and Camphill Village Gift Shop and Coffee Shop workmaster. Ted is continues as a house leader, and is our Ficus Group member in charge of Finance.

Bio coming soon.

Emily moved to Camphill Village from down south in 2012. She has two older sisters, a step sister, and a step brother. She grew up helping her mother in her beautiful vegetable garden in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Emily has brought so many talents to Camphill, and has been an asset to our community in many ways.

A natural leader, she currently lives in Wildern House, where she likes to cook. Emily just started working in the Village vegetable garden in spring of 2021, and has been busy planting peas and other early crops. Emily has been a fixture of the Village Bookbindery for several years – expertly sewing pages into the binding of her handmade journals, creating one-of-a-kind greeting cards, and hand-decorating the beautiful matchboxes that adorn the dining tables in the Village.

Emily has been on several major trips since moving to the Village, including Iceland, Washington DC, and Russia. “For Russia and Iceland, it was nice to experience how other people do things,” she says. “Iceland was so beautiful and amazing, and cold and warm depending on where you are.”

Emily is pleased to join the Board of Directors. “I like to have a say and have my thoughts included in decisions about the Village.”

After college in China, Seeya worked as a social compliance specialist, ensuring the wellbeing of workers in different industries for eight years in China. She then traveled for a year in New Zealand, where she became acquainted with anthroposophy and the Waldorf school system. In 2012, Seeya moved to the US and joined Camphill Village in Copake, where she currently resides with her husband Nico Christiansen and their young son Kilian.

Seeya has been running the Village Weavery since 2014, and a house leader in Undina‑one of the Village care houses‑since 2016. Seeya completed the Camphill Academy’s social therapy program with a professional diploma in social therapy following five years of required study in 2017. Seeya’s years in Camphill Village have been transformative; she has learned more about herself, spiritual life, and fellow human beings than she ever thought possible.

Seeya is currently a member of the Focus Group, one of the decision-making bodies in Camphill Village.