"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
Dr. Shayri Greenwood
Faculty
Shayri Greenwood is a neuroscientist, educator and currently the Science department chair as well as a Middle and Upper School teacher at Friends Seminary. A native of New York City, Shayri earned her PhD in Biological Psychology (Integrative Neuroscience) and her MA in Psychology from Stony Brook University. She has taught research and writing courses, biopsychology courses as well as life science and biology courses at the undergraduate and K-12 level for over ten years. Shayri is particularly passionate about supporting students of color in the sciences and has mentored and trained a number of science scholars who have obtained advanced degrees in research and medical fields.
Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
