Head of School

Felicia Wilks’ deep and versatile experience includes serving as teacher, department chair, diversity director, division head and assistant head of school in independent, Quaker, day, boarding, all-girls’ and coeducational schools. Most recently she served as the Assistant Head of School and the Upper School Director at Lakeside School, a nationally recognized school in Seattle, Washington. Her leadership in independent school education also includes serving as Upper School English Department Chair, and Director of Diversity at the Friends School of Baltimore, as well as the Head of Upper School at the Garrison Forest School, a renowned independent K-12 girls’ school with a coed preschool and national and international boarding program in Owings Mills, Maryland. Ms. Wilks graduated from the all-girls Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and strongly believes in the mission of single-sex education for girls and women. Ms. Wilks holds a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.