Scott Godsen joined the Spence faculty as a Middle and Upper School science teacher in 1999, immediately after finishing his education. He recieved a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Cooper Union, and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2010, Scott was awarded the Margaret Duckett Award for Outstanding Teaching, an annual award given to the Spence teacher who most embodies and promotes the school’s core values, and inspires girls to do their best possible work. Scott was able to use his engineering background to design and engineer a timber frame home that he built with his husband upstate. He loves to draw, and has exhibited some of his work in the Spence gallery. His favorite leisure activity is biking in the hills surrounding his home in the Hudson Valley, where he and his husband often cover 40-60 miles each weekend.

Deysbel Peña joined Spence in 2012 as the Middle and Upper School Laboratory Technician and MIddle School Science Teacher. Desi earned her B.S. in Forensic Science: Molecular Biology and her M.A. in Criminal Justice from CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. For the past three years, Desi worked as a Laboratory Technician and Co-Teacher of Organic Chemistry at The Dalton School. She previously interned as a Forensic Biology Assitant at the OFfice of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York. Outside of work, Desi researches the life experiences of undocumented Latino migrant worker and enjoys spending time with her family, reading and traveling.