Our board of directors shares one common belief. Children should start learning another language at an early age. The board helps guides us on how to spread world language education in New Hampshire and Maine.

Dennis Harrington is a retired principal with over 25 years of leading Moharimet Elementary School. He oversaw almost 80 teachers and staff and 375 students. His current mission is to incorporate foreign language education into elementary schools

Brandy Hardiman is a Marine Biologist and Educator. For the past twenty years, Brandy has been educating the public about the local marine environment and climate change. Her work led her to Singapore where she focused on local and global conservation. Upon returning from Singapore, she found One World Language School, where her two young children could continue to learn Mandarin. Brandy was invited to join the Board and has grown her role to include grant writing and social media.

Yasmine Parsons graduated from Georgetown University and has a background in marketing and design before moving to Durham, NH. Having grown up speaking French at home, it was a natural fit for her to become a French teacher for One World Language School where she taught for five years to children in Kindergarten to 8th grade of varying academic levels. Even though she no longer teaches French, her passion for languages and the need to promote language learning for all children even at an early age remains strong and she became a board member for OWLS. This year is her sixth year on the board and she loves it. She also works part-time at UNH’s The Browne Center, coordinating experiential learning programs for students in elementary, middle school, high school, and university levels. She also does computer graphics and photography there. Yasmine is married and the mother of three children

Yvonne Aust studied Education and Sociology in Germany. She is an accomplished, energetic educator with a solid achievement in the field. She has worked at the German Embassy School in Beijing (China) and is currently teaching German at the German International School in Boston. Over the past 10 years, she has worked with One World in different roles: as Director of Project Development, as a German Foreign Language teacher and as a consultant and trainer at One World’s continuing education events. She enjoys her advisory role on the board. She strongly believes in the school’s mission to make language learning accessible for all.

Anita Mathur holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in the field of Sociology with an emphasis in education, stratification, and family studies. She founded the Oyster River Alumni Association in 2005, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that serves current students and alumni of the Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) in Durham, NH. 
Anita believes we are all global citizens, and learning world languages is a great way to prepare students for their future. She first became involved in world language work as a volunteer registration coordinator for the Oyster River Chinese Program (ORCP), an after-school Mandarin language program formed through a partnership between ORCSD and the Confucius Institute of China. After Oyster River’s after-school Mandarin program shifted to One World Language School, Anita was honored to be able to stay involved by joining the One World Language School Board of Directors. 
Anita lives in Durham with her husband Steve and teenage daughter Maia. Steve speaks multiple languages and is a strong “behind the scenes” supporter of One World Language School. Throughout her elementary school career, Maia benefited greatly from One World Language School classes in Mandarin, Spanish and French. Maia now takes Mandarin in school at Berwick Academy and volunteers as a Teaching Assistant in One World Language School Spanish classes.