Born and raised in sunny Southern California, Ms. Linhares grew up immersed in Waldorf education. As a Waldorf student, they quickly gained a love for the interdisciplinary that has fueled everything they have done since. In college, Ms. Linhares studied biology, chemistry, physics, and disability studies, graduating from Middlebury College with an independently-designed B.A. in Disability, Health, and Power. They have worked in clinical genetics and biomedical optics research labs and brings a unique breadth and depth of science knowledge to her teaching. Ms. Linhares is particularly interested in the role science plays in society and how cultures use science as a tool towards or against justice. They teach with universal design in mind, centering the disability justice principle of “leave no one behind.” They are an avid artist, musician, writer, and Dungeons and Dragons player; you can almost always find them creating something of some kind.