An experienced teacher of both math and music, Lily Angelica loves to inspire in her students a sense of joyful wonder and discovery, ultimately leading to confidence and skillful application. After many years of teaching in the Bay Area (Canyon Elementary, The School of the Madeleine, and The Renaissance School), she is thrilled to join the faculty at the Julia Morgan School.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she obtained a BA in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College, and a Masters in music and music pedagogy from Holy Names University. She has taught K-8 music and various levels of elementary and middle school math (through geometry and algebra II) for over eight years, and has tutored high school and community college classes before that. She also loves sprinkling the regular curriculum with enrichment exercises exposing her students to undergraduate and graduate level topics such as topology, graph theory, and fractal geometry.
Lily Angelica is also a musician; a long-time member of the Oakland-based women’s group Kitka, she has also recorded several solo albums (Eastern European love songs and laments, and European lullabies). During the pandemic, she started a YouTube channel of ballads and old-timey children’s songs, and also began singing in a 80’s/90’s pop cover band (SO FUN). She also loves nature and hiking, drawing, studying linguistics, psychology, and physics (to name a few), animals of every kind, and the color indigo.