Staying Within the Guardrails: Professional Boundaries in Independent Schools

Amy McNamer is the executive director at AISGW. Early in her career, she taught at the Casablanca American School, Morocco, and she has practiced law for twenty years in a variety of contexts in the private and public sectors. She has also provided strategic consulting to several area non-profits as a volunteer for Compass Pro Bono, assisting non-profit boards with governance issues and strategic alignment matters. Amy holds her B.A. in European history from Harvard and earned her J.D. at Georgetown.

Debra Wilson joined the SAIS staff as president in July 2019. Debra received her B.A. in English from Sewanee, The University of the South, and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. She previously served as general counsel for NAIS for 19 years. Her past and current board service includes EMA-The Enrollment Management Association, GEB-Global Education Benchmarking, MISBO-Mid-South Independent School Business Officers, and NNSP-National Network of School Partnerships.

Sarah Wilson is the executive director of TAIS. She began her career in education with Teach for America in Atlanta, GA and fell in love with boarding schools while teaching at Asheville School. Prior to joining TAIS, Sarah served as the upper school director and then the director for Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH.