Meet the team
At York Prep, we take pride in being inclusive, open, and accessible to our students. Nearly every member of the York Prep leadership team teaches a class and/or serves as an advisor to a student club.
This hands-on approach creates an environment where our leaders are driven by the development and changing needs of our students. The leadership team at York Prep works collaboratively to create an environment that promotes high educational standards, as well as personal development and growth; their focus is always on the students.
John Beich
Associate Head of School
Education: University of Denver – B.A.; Columbia University, Teachers College – M.A.
Since 1999, Mr. Beich has been working with students that have learning disabilities. His career and education have taken him to many settings, schools and communities. He has worked with a wide range of student profiles. His undergraduate degree is in Comparative Religious Studies and his Masters degree is in Learning Disabilities.
From 2004 to 2018, Mr. Beich was a teacher and administrator in the middle school at Stephen Gaynor School. The last seven years he was the Director of Middle School at Stephen Gaynor. He recently moved to York Prep after nearly a decade of close cooperation and communication with York. It is exciting to be a Jump Start instructor and work so closely with individual students.
Emily Borden
Director of Curriculum and Instruction for STEAM
Education: Colgate University - B.A.
Hunter College - M.S.Ed.
Emily Borden is originally from Princeton, NJ. She attended Colgate University and received her Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Neuroscience. After graduating and moving to New York, Ms. Borden decided to pursue teaching. She obtained her Master's degree in General and Special Education from Hunter College.
Prior to York Prep, Ms. Borden taught at the NYC Autism Charter School, working with students ages 7-21. In her free time, Ms. Borden enjoys spending time with friends, listening to podcasts, and trying out new recipes.
Jeremy Clarke
Associate Head of School
Education: University of Sydney, Australia
B.A. University of Technology Sydney, Australia
M.A. University of Oxford
Mr. Clarke comes to us from Australia, where he was born and raised and got his Bachelor's degree in English and American literature, and then a Master's degree in Journalism. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa and elsewhere, before decamping to England, where he began teaching while he got another Master's degree, this time in creative writing at Oxford University.
He met and married a New Yorker and followed her home to where they now live on the Upper West Side. They can be found in their spare moments happily playing with their three young children in the playgrounds in Central Park.
Jennifer En
Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Humanities
Jennifer (Jen) En is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at York Prep. Prior to starting her work at York, Ms. En served as the upper school assistant director at Manhattan Country School on the Upper West Side where she developed curriculum with teachers, ensured that all learners had access to an equitable education, and cultivated strong home-school connections with families. She has also worked as the learning specialist at The Co-op School in addition to later becoming the school's interim middle school director. Ms. En began her English teaching career at a 6-12 public school in Brooklyn and has taught at independent schools in New York City and abroad.
Ms. En received her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Secondary Education from New York University and graduated from Hunter College with a master's degree in Adolescent Special Education.
Evelyn Rowe-Cosentino
Director of Wellness and Counseling
Education: St. Joseph’s College – B.A.; New York University – M.A.
Evelyn Rowe-Cosentino has a B.A in Psychology from St. Josephs College, and a M.A degree from NYU. She is a Psychotherapist with a License in Creative Arts Therapy, and training in Group Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and DBT. She has 30 years experience working in the field of Psychology. She has worked with children with Autism, Trauma, in the foster care system, substance abuse, and at risk teens.
She spent 10 years working at Mount Sinai Hospital on inpatient psychiatric units. During 9/11 through 2004 she worked with the Red Cross and Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society providing therapy to the children of the restaurant workers who lost their lives during the 9/11 attack as well as Firefighters and Police Officers who were injured during the recovery mission.
Hui Ping Teo
Finance Manager
Hui Ping Teo, originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business and Finance from Monash University. She embarked on her professional journey with PwC in Kuala Lumpur, gaining audit experience before transitioning to KPMG in Singapore. Hui Ping then joined Cognita Asia's regional office based in Singapore as a financial analyst, where she later assumed the role of finance manager. In this capacity, she supported the expansion plan in Hong Kong, overseeing the establishment of a new international school, driving finance transformation, and facilitating growth in new markets within the education sector.
Recently, Hui Ping made an exciting move to New York, leaving Hong Kong behind, and is eager to seize all the opportunities and adventures this remarkable city has to offer.
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