Dr. Victoria Rase Shinn

President

Victoria Rase Shinn grew up in Austin, daughter of Kirby Hall founder, Mrs. Beverly Rase, and her husband, Dr. Howard F. Rase. She was one of Kirby Hall’s first graduates in the class of 1979. After graduating from Wellesley College, Victoria attended medical school at University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Following her pediatric residency through UT Southwestern, Victoria worked as a General Pediatrician in Dallas for 28 years. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Greg, and close to daughters Carolyn and Kathryn and their families. Grand-parenting is a favorite activity. She is so glad to stay connected to Kirby Hall through its board of directors.

Howard Rase

Treasurer

Howard Rase is a Kirby Hall graduate, who earned a degree in Biomedical Engineering a short walk away at the University of Texas, Austin, He has spent most of his life after schooling in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Caroline and two school-aged children, Ty and Eloise. His years working in Pharma / Biotech turned into a consulting career. Since the pandemic, he turned his boutique consulting firm, Minted Consulting, into a COVID Compliance business serving Commercial Productions in Hollywood. Simultaneously, he has been building a circular economy business called Buoy at www.buoy.eco. Buoy makes consumer goods, like a reusable water bottle, and recyclable restaurant containers meant to be used in a circular economy.

Sabina Behague

Director

Sabina Behague is the Communications Manager for The DHS Program, a USAID-funded project that collects, analyzes, and disseminates health, nutrition, and population data around the world.   With over 25 years of international development and communications experience in the United States and several countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, she is highly skilled in strategic messaging and storytelling, program management, and proposal and new business development. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in International Communication/Development from the American University, and an MA in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University. Sabina is a proud alumna of Kirby Hall School’s class of 1983, and is married and has two children.

Sara Pevaroff Schuh

Director

Sara Pevaroff Schuh is a licensed landscape architect and founder of SALT Design Studio, a landscape architecture practice dedicated to participatory, context-based design. She is a recognized expert in community facilitation, and her work has garnered numerous awards and been exhibited as models for ecological design. Sara has more than 25 years of experience with master planning and site design for elementary schools, public parks and gardens, college and corporate campuses, streetscapes, and civic venues across the country. Passionate about restoring our connection to the natural world through design, Sara assists communities in developing sustainable strategies for sites of all scales. She was an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at Thomas Jefferson University from 2006-2010 and actively lectures to school groups and non-profits about urban ecology and resilient design. Sara is a proud alumna of Kirby Hall’s class of 1985, holds a BS in Political Communication from The University of Texas and an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Everett M. Lunning, Jr.

Director

Ev retired from St. Edward’s University in 2016 after serving in staff and faculty positions and as a guest artist in productions at the Mary Moody Northen Theater (MMNT). His guest artist appearances at MMNT include Henry Higgins in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee. He appeared as a guest artist for the University of Texas Department of Theater and Dance in an adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoevsky and in Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw. He has appeared as an actor in numerous Austin Theaters, including Zach Theater, Hyde Park Theater, Austin Shakespeare, Different Stages, Austin Theatre for Youth, and Austin Playhouse. Since 1992 he has served as a volunteer narrator for the Talking Book Studio of the Texas State Library and Archives. He has served on the board of the Brush Square Museums, and he is a leader with Central Texas Interfaith, which advocates for issues which affect families.

Ev holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama. In addition to teaching at St. Edward’s University, Ev taught at Kirby Hall School from 1983 to 1985 as well as Sidney Lanier High School also here in Austin. 

Ianthe Brock Wooley

Director

Ianthe Brock Wooley is a Senior Contracts Manager at Environmental Resources Management, a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services. She received a BA in English from The University of Texas at Austin. Ianthe grew up in Austin and is a proud alumna of Kirby Hall School’s class of 1983. Ianthe and her husband enjoy visiting their daughter who attends college in Denver.

W. Andrew Liddell

Director

Andy Liddell is a career federal courts litigator and technology attorney. Before joining the EdTech Law Center in early 2025, he spent 15 years helping clients resolve complex, multimillion-dollar disputes involving patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

Andy is also a dedicated advocate for youth digital civil rights. As a longtime member of the Children’s Screentime Action Network, Andy has testified before state and federal legislators in support of bills designed to better protect children online. He has also worked to persuade regulators to more vigorously enforce the laws currently on the books to protect kids and families. As part of his legal practice, Andy has provided pro bono legal services to Fairplay, a nonprofit, independent voice for children, as well as to Frances Haugen, who exposed Facebook’s practices of putting profits over the lives of young people.

He is proud to join Julie Liddell, his wife and law partner, in the fight for the rights and wellbeing of students, parents, teachers, and school districts against exploitative technology companies. Andy strives to create a world where technology helps people flourish, using litigation to align corporate incentives with the things people need to thrive.

Andy is a 2009 graduate, with honors, of the University of Texas School of Law and a 2006 graduate, with high honors, of Texas A&M University.

His children enrolled at Kirby Hall School beginning in 2020.

MacDonald Kempf

Director

Ex-Officio

KHS Strategic Plan, 2025-2029

The 2025-2029 Strategic Plan for Kirby Hall School has been created by Kirby Hall’s Board of Directors with reference to the previous strategic plan and in response to stakeholder input from parents, teachers, staff, and board members. 

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