Meet the Staff at Sunny Hollow Montessori

Vanessa Padua-Evans

Lead Guide

Vanessa is a native New Yorker who received her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Hofstra University, her AMI Montessori primary diploma from the Montessori Training Center of Minnesota in 2015, and her Master’s in Education from St. Catherine University in 2016. Vanessa and her husband Eric love to cook and explore different restaurants and foods and to taunt their picky-eater daughters, Margaux (current Upper Elementary North student) and Frankie (Casa Creek student) with pleas to just try the foods. Vanessa also loves libraries and children’s books and taking walks.