Our Teachers

Isolde Stewart

Director

Isolde received the 2014 Hawkins Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boulder chapter of the CAEYC for her years of exceptional service to children, families and educators.  She is a devoted community activist for equity in education. A.A. in Early Childhood Education, Front Range Community College; Director Qualified in Early Childhood Education. Teacher at New Horizons since 1984.

Eva Nisttahuz-Hathaway

Assistant Director / Bilingual Teacher

Eva has been working in education since 2006. She started her teaching career at New Horizons Cooperative Preschool, and then spent 7 years as a Kindergarten and ELD teacher in Denver Public Schools. Eva has a Masters degree in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education from CU-Denver, and was a 2018 fellow in the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program. This year she has returned to New Horizons as a teacher/assistant director.

Wendy Chairez

Assistant Bilingual Teacher

Wendy is a bilingual, biliterate, native Spanish speaker, who went to New Horizons as a child. She went on to Uni Hill, Casey, Boulder High, and is now studying Early Childhood Education at Front Range with a plan to complete a four year degree in ECE. Wendy brings a deeply reflective personal experience to her teaching, and is our dream come true, our second alumna to become a teacher at New Horizons. Wendy began at New Horizons in the 2016/2017 school year.

Myriam Jimenez

Bilingual Teacher

Myriam Jimenez is a bilingual, biliterate, native Spanish speaker who grew up in Boulder. She joined the New Horizons community ten years ago as a parent and returned with her younger child in 2021.  She had already begun her study of early childhood education when she joined our staff in August 2022 and continues to pursue her ECE degree.