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Our Team
We are a team of open-minded and innovative professionals interested in creating the school of the future. If you are interested in joining us check our Vacancies and send us your resume.
Administration
Anna Kadieva
Co-founder
Graduating from Sorbonne University, Anna had been working as a project manager in cultural sector as well as with kids with special learning needs and bilingual teenagers from all over the world before co-founding i Le Sallay Academy. Anna also is a member of both Executive and R&D comittees in EADL (European Association for Distance Learning).
Sergey Kuznetsov
Co-founder
Sergey Kuznetsov is a French-based writer and journalist. He was awarded a Knight Fellowship by Stanford University. His works have been translated into multiple languages.
Ekaterina Kadieva
Co-founder
Ekaterina Kadieva is a psychologist, instructor at the Center for Systemic Family Therapy and a specialist in child development.
Aleka Molokova
Principal
MA in Linguistics and Art Management. Aleka has worked in secondary and higher education, taught English as Second Language and managed numerous educational projects in Boston where she currently lives.
Ksenia Serebryanaya
Operational Deputy Principal
LLM International Commercial Law. Despite a career in commercial law and business, Ksenia also has a 15 years experience in education. From hands on group leading, teaching and counselling in London, Moscow, Israel, and of course Le Sallay Academy to a countrywide branch management of a kids’ and youth movement.
Yuri Lapshin
Psychologist
MA in Psychology, post-graduate work in professional pedagogy research. Yuri has worked with adolescents both in school and social center settings. He has trained teachers, psychologists and social workers on the aspects of teen psychology and has set up psychological support services for students, teachers and parents in his previous role as a head of psychology department.
Senior Staff Humanities and Languages
Dr. Melinda Rice
Head of Humanities Department
BA in History from the Seattle University. Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Prior to joining Le Sallay, Melinda taught at the University of Mississippi. She has years of experience working with gifted students including at Duke University's Talent Identification Program for middle school students in India and Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth in Hong Kong
Dr. Bruna Gushurst-Moore
World literature and English language
Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Plymouth, BA in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She did postdoctoral research on the Leverhulme-British Academy Women's Early Modern Letters Online Project in association with Oxford University and the Bodleian Library and taught at different levels from middle school to Master's.
Olga Baley
Foreign Languages
MA in History from the Moscow State University. A French-based interpreter and languages teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching foreign languages to English-speaking students.
Dr. Anastasia Moskaleva
Literature and Russian
Ph.D. in Philology and a BA in Teaching from Novosibirsk State University. A teacher of literature and a developer of teaching and tutoring programs. She supervises the graduate students' teaching practice and organizes cultural projects and events.
Victoria Bachevskaya
French
BA in Linguistics and Teaching from the Moscow State University and MA in translation studies from Inalco, Victoria has been teaching French as a foreign language since 2015. Since 2021 she has been successfully training students for the French diplomas DELF-DALF and has worked as a teacher’s assistant for two years in Lycée Henri IV in Paris where she currently lives.
Senior Staff STEM
Dr. Veronika Koroleva
Head of STEM department
Ph.D. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Didactics and Teaching Methodology. Nika has experience working in the science labs and has developed a unique skill of setting up virtual labs to teach chemistry in a blended learning setting. She is the author of several articles on teaching methodology.
Artem Andreev
Earth and Space Science
MSc in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the MIPT and a former researcher, Artem has taught Physics, Mathematics, Science and Programming on various levels spanning from early middle school to undergraduates. Being a former successful Math and Physics competitor and a member of organisational team for all-Russian Math and Physics Olympiads, he has experience solving and teaching advanced problems in these disciplines.
Roman Tsventikov
Math
M.Sc. in Mechanics & Math from the Moscow State University. A winner of the International Math Olympiads, Roman has taught at several Math Olympics boot camps and schools for mathematically gifted students.
Dr. Ekaterina Rogova
Life Science
Ekaterina is a specialist in Biology with a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Strasbourg. She has extensive experience working with children of various ages, making her well-equipped to inspire and educate young minds in the area of Life Sciences.
Visiting Lecturers
Wole Soyinka
Writer, playwright, activist
The Nobel laureate in Literature visited Le Sallay to speak about his writing, activism, and his view of the modern world and its history.