Trisha Willingham
President, Founding Board Member
Trisha has been a Montessori Educator for 28 years. She has training at 0-3, 3-6, and 6-12 levels and attended a summer seminar on the adolescent. She has Orton-Gillingham Language training and has engaged in the NCMPS Coaches Training and Coaches Continuation and this helps her in her freelance consulting work. She has lead in the elementary classroom, in administration, and on the board of an independent school, and this Montessori Mom feels passionately about moving Montessori forward in Virginia, the United States and the world as a whole. In addition to founding and leading the Virginia Montessori Association, she serves on the board of the Montessori Public Policy Initiative, as an AMI representative and Strategic Planning Committee Chair.