Meet Our Team

The teachers, facilitators, and key assistants that keep everything running.

Anne Rock

Co-Director, Lead North Star Program Facilitator

Anne is a mother of two, life-long nature lover, and folk herbalist. She was home educated most of her school years, and has worked extensively with children for over 15 years. Her educative passions are nature based and child-led, with the hope of inspiring the next generation's bright future.

Anne enjoys living a holistic lifestyle; gardening, foraging, cooking nutritious meals and preparing herbal concoctions for her friends and family. She deeply loves sharing the magic of plants with all.

One of her greatest aspirations is building and surrounding her family with wholesome community, and she is thrilled to be sharing that reality through New Earth Traditions.

Julianne Aumen

Co-Director, Lead North Star Program Facilitator

Julianne is a mother of four, passionate about maintaining a space of holistic well being in which her children and others can learn, grow, and thrive. She desires to cultivate community not only through friendships between children, but also through support and connection between parents and caregivers.

Julianne is a life long creative and an avid sourdough baker. Her favorite activities to guide are cooking, gardening, and all variations of creative expression including knitting, sewing, wet & needle felting and more.

Most of all she loves to inspire children to come to their own conclusions and think outside of the box.

Kat McCaughern

Lead Starflower Facilitator

Kat is a mother of two, a longtime educator, and a passionate garden steward. With over a decade of experience guiding preschool-aged children, she brings a gentle, grounded presence to her work and believes deeply in the power of child-led, hands-on learning.

She finds joy in her home garden, watercolor painting with her children, and hiking with her husband and their two dogs. A lifelong lover of the arts, she is always exploring new ways to express her creativity.

Kat is inspired by the curiosity, excitement, and wonder children bring to each day and is honored to join the New Earth Traditions team, where learning grows as naturally as the seeds we plant together.

Rachel Lopez-Cerrato

Lead 5-7s North Star Program Facilitator

Rachel is a mother, artist, and educator with a deep commitment to honoring her ancestors and our mother earth.

Rachel's pedagogy is informed by a rich spritual and creative foundation, with a background in the arts and training in Indigenous Mexican Traditional healing, Waldorf Education, Handwork, and Anthroposophy. As a loving steward of little people, she builds connection and trust through reverent and magical experiences with nature, beauty, and community.

She brings years of experience leading programs in early childhood and handwork from a nature centered and Waldorf inspired approach.