Katie Charner-Laird
Director of Elementary and Middle School
Swarthmore College – B.A., Sociology
UC Berkeley – M.A., Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Education – MEd, Education Leadership
Joined Riverbend in 2022
Katie was a principal at the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge for 10 years. Most recently she was the Head of Lower School at the Fessenden School in Newton. Katie started her teaching career in a multi-age classroom, teaching a combined third and fourth grade as well as a combined fifth and sixth grade.