Dr. Ida Oberman
Senior Research Fellow
Fachgebiet: Erziehungswissenschaft, Kindheitspädagogik, Kunst- und Waldorfpädagogik/ Fachbereich Bildungswissenschaft
- Dutch-born and German-educated
- Graduated from the Waldorf School in Tübingen, Germany
- Waldorf teaching diploma in Stuttgart Germany, BA from Swarthmore College, PhD in Education from Stanford University
- After a decade of teaching in New York City, she served as the education program officer of the Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA
- 2010: Founder and executive director of Oakland’s TK-8 Community School for Creative Education [CSCE]
- 2017: In collaboration with Mills College, Alanus University, Friends of Waldorf Education, and CSCE, Ida launched the Mills Waldorf Professional Development Certificate Program
- Over the past two decades: Has guided practitioner and researcher groups to present together at conferences including the National American Education Research Association Annual Meeting on cutting-edge work surrounding focus on the whole child and systems change
- She serves on the board of Faith in Acton East Bay, a multi-racial, multi-ethnic federation of houses of faith and schools representing 60,000 families in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
- 2023: Senior Research Fellow, Alanus University
