Teresa Santamaria

Ms. Santamaria manages ISB's Board activities, development and spearheads fundraising events. She joined ISB's founding board in 2004 and has been a key figure in ISB's development and growth.

An experienced regional Director and Resource Manager, Ms. Santamaria has managed consulting teams and software implementation projects with world-class clients for over twenty years. Now managing technology service delivery at Wells Fargo Financial Products, she is building a career with one firm while she and her husband raise their son.

Previously, Ms. Santamaria traveled nationally and internationally as Director of a consulting division for an internationally-recognized project management firm, Applied Business Technology, where she directed project managers and consultants at clients such as Chase, JP Morgan, Fidelity, Brown Brothers Harriman and many other firms. She also taught extensively in the business community on resource management, general management and project management best practices and lectured regularly for Project Management Institute regional branches around the Tri-State area. A leadership trainer for youths in her teens and early twenties, she has always expanded her ability to lead teams and coach leadership.

She received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in Educational Organization and Administration from New York University's School of Education.

She lives in Park Slope with her family.

Rebecca Skinner

Ms. Skinner manages daily operations at the school including admissions, fundraising and strategic development.

Prior to starting ISB in late 2003, Ms. Skinner spent several years in the non-profit education field, including working as Director of Strategic Advancement for Partnership for After School Education (PASE), a non-profit organization focused on professional development opportunities in various after school programs around the country. She also served as Program Officer for The Louis Calder Foundation where she worked with grantees to develop educational initiatives that leveraged resources and built constituencies to maximize the positive social impact of their programming. Prior to the Calder Foundation, Ms. Skinner served as Program Assistant at The Markle Foundation.

After six years in the non-profit foundation and professional development worlds, Ms. Skinner returned to her linguistic education roots and co-founded ISB, a non-profit school, in 2003 with Dr. Habiba Boumlik. Ms. Skinner was drawn to the idea of ISB for professional reasons as well as personal.

Ms. Skinner currently serves on the Channel Thirteen Tri-State Advisory Board Committee charged with promoting outreach to the WNET tri-state viewing area's diverse, multi-cultural communities, particularly in the areas of education, programming and development.

She received a B.A. in French and International Studies from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and an M.A. degree in French Cultural Studies from Institute of French Studies at New York University (NYU). Ms. Skinner is also a recent graduate of the Coro Leadership New York Program (XVIII), a distinguished civic leadership program.

She lives in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn with her family.

Tamara Malkin-Stuart

Ms. Malkin-Stuart joined the board in 2008.

Ms. Malkin-Stuart is an artist and yoga instructor as well as a committed supporter of ISB and its bilingual mission. Ms. Malkin-Stuart enrolled her child at the school's opening in 2005 and has since been active and involved in bringing relationships to ISB that have helped to gain consistent interaction with the Hispanophone community.

A native of Madrid, Spain and born to Spanish and American parents, Ms. Malkin-Stuart embodies ISB's international spirit. She is bilingual in Spanish, is proficient in Italian and French and has lived, studied and/or worked in Spain, Italy, Sweden and the United States.

As a child, Ms. Malkin-Stuart attended The British Institute School in Madrid, and remains grateful for and enthusiastic about the rewards of a bilingual education. She is happy to have an opportunity to be a part of such an environment for her son and other children here in Brooklyn. Ms. Malkin-Stuart received a BA in Art History and Painting, and a minor in Italian Literature from Barnard College in New York City. She also completed studies in painting at the New York Studio School and International School of Art in Umbria in Italy, after which she completed an internship with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. She brings her arts background (educational and vocational) to all her pursuits, including parenting.

Ms. Malkin-Stuart looks forward to participating in the school's growth in the coming years. She is a passionate student of Argentine tango and is a 500 hour, Yoga Alliance certified yoga instructor. She has settled in Brooklyn with her partner and son.

Natalie Ungari

Ms. Ungari joined the ISB Board of Directors in 2009.

Ms. Ungari is a real estate attorney working as the Associate Director of Leasing at Two Trees Management Co. LLC. At Two Trees, Ms. Ungari works with current and prospective tenants and drafts and negotiates commercial leases and associated documentation for office, retail and storage spaces located in the DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill areas of Brooklyn. She is also a licensed real estate broker who negotiates leasing deals with other brokers and tenants directly.

Prior to her work at Two Trees, Ms. Ungari was employed at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, where she served as an associate in the real estate department, concentrating on all aspects of commercial real estate. Ms. Ungari began her legal career at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, representing clients in a variety of real estate matters.

She graduated cum laude from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College with a double major in Human Development and History and received her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law ? Newark.

Ms. Ungari was born in Montreal, Canada where the majority of her family still resides. She currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with her husband and her dog.

Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig

Ms. Jouanneau-Fertig joined ISB in 2009.

A native from the Loire Valley in France, she has lived in the United States since 1977. She is full-time faculty in the French Department at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been teaching language and culture courses since 1987. Previously, she taught at Yale University, the Bryn Mawr Institute of French Studies in Avignon, France, the University of Texas in Austin and the Park School in Brookline. She also worked at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and, while in France, for the United States Information Service at the American Embassy in Paris and the Office de la Radio et de la Télévision Françaises (ORTF).

Ms. Jouanneau-Fertig has been very involved in the public and private schools which her sons attended. At Stuyvesant High School, she was an active member of the Parent Association Executive Board, elected Senior Member-at-large, Chairwoman of the Parent Handbook Committee, co-President of Friends of Stuyvesant Baseball, and was instrumental in fundraising efforts.

She is also committed to serving a diverse body of the New York community, as a voice actor for dialogs in French textbooks, offering private French lessons, translating, coaching opera and choir singers in French, and judging quality of French tapes for the blind.

Ms. Jouanneau-Fertig holds a B.A. and a M.A. in English and American Studies from the University of Paris VII.

Ms. Jouanneau-Fertig is bilingual and currently studies Spanish. She has traveled extensively around the world. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.