Meet the Staff

Ann Mallek taught science and technology at St. Anne's-Belfield Lower School for 10 years and is now an outreach educator for the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Ann grew up on a farm in Albemarle County where she studied the wild creatures and cared for farm animals. She is an advocate for conservation and ecosystem preservation. Ann and her family live on a cattle farm in Earlysville.

Nancy Newman has 30 years of experience in the public schools and 10 years with the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She has a lifelong interest in natural sciences, and is happiest outside...anywhere outside...learning and exploring. Nancy has traveled far and wide visiting grizzlies, Monarch butterflies, whales, marine iguanas and tarantulas. But she is most content in and around Charlottesville and Albemarle observing and enjoying local flora and fauna.