Trustees

As a volunteer, he has served on the boards of small charities, such as The O’Gorman Garden and an after school program in an impoverished section of Nagarote, Nicaragua. As an O’Gorman Garden Trustee, he looks forward to helping the organization raise funds and strengthen its operations and programming.

In 2014, Rachel joined the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), an affordable housing nonprofit, as its Director of Communication & Fundraising. She designs and implements UHAB’s outreach, cultivation, and stewardship strategies for ongoing and prospective individual donors, foundations, corporations, and government programs. Along with crafting grant proposals, she writes, edits, and oversees the design, production, and distribution of the organization’s varied online and hard copy communication materials. A Wesleyan University graduate, she previously served as Senior Writer at the Rockefeller Foundation and Columbia University’s Deputy Director of Development Communications for alumni relations

With decades of experience in public education Mr. Stewart now also works with Jazz at Lincoln Center as an educational consultant, advisor to the Rhythm Road project, and has helped to create the curriculum for the Middle School Jazz Academy. Another highlight from Mr. Stewart’s distinguished educational career includes winning the nationally-renowned Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition while directing The LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts & Music and Art Jazz Ensemble.

Bob has also been honored to serve as a panelist for the New York State Council of the Arts, worked as a consultant for JazzMobile, and was a clinician for the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in New Orleans. He has appeared in Ken Burns’ “Jazz” series and was the subject of an award-winning, feature-length documentary entitled “Jazz on a Winter’s Day” and is a Grammy-Nominated Tubist. While concertizing and touring both in the United States and internationally, Bob Stewart maintains a faculty position as professor of Jazz History at The Juilliard School. In 2012, Mr. Stewart established “The Annual Bob Stewart Tuba Competition” to inspire tuba players to lead their own ensembles helping to establish new tuba repertoire.

Alice Buchanan, our Head of School and Head Teacher, is originally from London. There, she trained at St. Nicholas Montessori College. After moving to New York in 1988, she studied Art History at New York University.

In her professional career, she has worked in education departments and preschools for over 30 years in the United Kingdom and United States, including the education department of the Museum of Modern Art. Alice has been teaching at The O’Gorman Garden since 2009, and became Head of School in the spring of 2014.