Our Staff

Kiara Reagan

Kiara is delighted to be joining the Honeybee team for her second year at RED. She has a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and loves to bike and make quilts outside of RED. She is looking forward to another year of creativity and exuberant play with the Honeybees!

Ammal Jama

Ammal is thrilled to be joining the Runkle Community as a HoneyBees teacher. Ammal has a passion for nature-based education and spent the last few years as a teacher at a nature preschool. She spends the summers as an Assistant Camp Director and can’t wait to bring that high-energy to the team! Ammal is currently taking early education courses and is excited to become a lead teacher in the fall! In her free time, she can be found birding, observing insects and enjoying the outdoors!

Naomi Liss

Naomi is so excited to return for her fourth year as a Honeybees teacher! Naomi grew up in Brookline where she attended the Pierce School and Brookline High School. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2018 with a major in sociology and concentration in education, and has been back living in the Boston area since. She has been working with children in preschool, after school and summer camp settings for the past 11 years and also works as a dog walker outside her role in RED. Outside of work, you’ll probably find her playing the ukulele, riding her bike, or playing with her dog Sloppy Joe.

Abby Visco

Abby is looking forward to her second year as a Cricket teacher! She holds a BA in Writing Literature and Publishing from Emerson College, as well as a Master’s degree in Middle and High School Education (English) from Lesley University. Outside of RED, you can find Abby working on her crosswords, enjoying a good meal with friends, or in the pottery studio, making tiny cups, bowls, and spoons for her loved ones.

Beth Clarke

Beth is thrilled to be back at RED for a fourth year, and is really tickled to be back with the Crickets! She holds a BM in Instrumental Music Education. Past teaching positions include competitive marching band, private instrument lessons, and middle school band. She enjoys science fiction, delicious food, chonky animals, and fixing up her house with her wife Briana. Beth is honored to be involved in building good humans at RED!

Brian Thone

Brian is proud to be entering his eigth year as a Cricket teacher! He loves the program, and cherishes the opportunity to impact those in it. Outside of work, Brian likes to watch and play sports. He’s a big Celtics and Patriots fan. The most important thing to him is spreading love and being a good person.

Julia Murphy

Julia is very excited to be back for her 7th year at RED! She graduated from UMass Amherst with a Bachelors in Environmental Science and from UNSW in Australia with a Masters in Conservation Biology. Since then, she has taught at zoos, aquariums, nature centers, and in school programs all around Boston and New York City.  Outside of work she can usually be found watching obscure science fiction, playing trivia, or complaining about how badly the Mets are doing.

Daniel Christian

Daniel is very excited to return for his 9th year with RED as a member of the Dragonflies. Daniel also has five years of experience working as a Paraprofessional for the RISE program at Runkle, which helped him gain a deeper appreciation for the school and community.

He is a Bitcoin enthusiast, who enjoys watching documentaries, eating mashed potatoes and taking walks during the fall.

Daniel is excited to continue the good times and make this school year a blast!

Abby Lougee

Abby is looking forward to her first year as a Dragonfly teacher! She graduated Suffolk University with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre and Art History. Since graduating she has worked at a non-profit organization as an enrichment instructor. Outside of work, she enjoys going to museums, cooking, and watching movies! Abby is so excited to be a part of the R.E.D community!