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Our Founders

Sibylle Rotach-Hunt, Founder and Former Director
Sibylle, founder and former director of The International School of Charlottesville, earned a B.A. and middle school teaching degree from the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 1983, and a M.Ed. In bilingual/multicultural education from George Mason University in 1996. She has over 20 years of teaching experience ranging from preschool children to adults in various discipline, including French immersion programs and elementary school. She was a teacher and the director of The International School of Charlottesville from 1998 until 2006.


Maite Brandt-Pearce, Founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees 
Read Maite's profile below here in the Board of Trustees



Board of Trustees

Please feel free to contact members of our board of trustees if you would like to hear about our school's long range planning, or if you would like to provide some input into major decisions concerning the school.

ISC Board meetings are open to all parents.  If you would like to attend, please email the Board of Trustees.

Next Meeting:  Wednesday, October 8, 2008
                        View the agenda



      Maite Brandt-Pearce, Founder and Chair
     
maite@theisc.org
      Associate Professor, Charles L. Brown Department
      of Electrical and computer Engineering, University
      of Virginia


      Maïté Brandt-Pearce co-founded the ISC with
      Sibylle Rotach-Hunt in 1998. Having attended a
      partial language immersion school herself (colegio
      Franco-Peruano in Lima, Peru), she is fluent in French and has some familiarity with Spanish. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the ISC from its inception, as Treasurer from 1998-2005, Interim Chairman of the Board from 2002-2005, and member at large from 2005 to 2007. Maïté is also an alumni parent (Aidan and Leila).

When not taking care of business at the ISC, Maïté is a professor of electrical engineering at UVA specializing in fiber optic communications. She has earned a BSEE in 1985, an MEE in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1993, all from Rice University in Houston, TX. She has over 75 published papers, all in electrical engineering.


TBD, Treasurer


TBD, Secretary



     James E. Burroughs, Member at Large 
     burroughs@virginia.edu
     Associate Professor of Commerce, McIntire School of 
     Commerce, University of Virginia


     Jim Burroughs has been teaching Marketing and 
     Consumer Behavior at the McIntire School of
     Commerce since 2000. He was a parent at ISC
     between 2002 and 2007.   Jim has been on the board
     since 2002 as well, first as parent representative,  
     then as an at-large member, and he was treasurer 
                               between 2005 and 2007.




  
     Richard Monroe, Member-at-large










 
Christina Hendricks, Parent Representative


Laura Rydin, Parent Representative



TBD, Faculty representative


TBD, Faculty representative