Board of Directors

Ben Maurer Board Chair & Parent Member 
Email: ben@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 | Term Expires: 6/2027

Mr. Maurer has worked in sales, marketing, and communications for the last 15 years and is currently a marketing manager for a large heavy-equipment dealer in the Twin Cities. He and his wife have four children, three of whom have attended Agamim since 2022 and span across both the lower and upper school. Mr. Maurer deeply appreciates Agamim’s mission and vision and is thankful to be able to serve the school for the good of our promising, young scholars.

Rhiannon Beckendorf, Vice Chair & Parent Member
Email: rhiannon@agamim.org |  Phone: 952-856-2531 | Term Expires: 6/2026

Ms. Beckendorf has been an employment lawyer for the last fifteen years and is currently counsel with the law firm of Faegre Drinker.  She is a parent of two Agamim scholars and aunt to one more.  Ms. Beckendorf has seen these scholars thrive within the close-knit Agamim community and especially appreciates the school’s rigorous but individualized approach.     

Andrew Weig, Treasurer & Parent Member
Email: andrew@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 | Term Expires: 6/2026

Mr. Weig is an active CPA in the state of Minnesota and manages global accounting functions for a Fortune 200 company. At least one of his three children has attended Agamim every year since the school opened. He deeply values the school's commitment to its diverse student body and the structured curriculum that it provides to each scholar.

Libby Schlatter, Board Clerk & Community Member
Email: libby@agamim.org | Phone: 763-377-0822 | Term expires: 6/2025

Ms. Schlatter was a founding teacher at Agamim.  Throughout her seven years there, she taught second grade, served on the Academic Leadership Team, and was a new teacher mentor and coach.  She now works at the nonprofit organization Every Meal, providing free weekend meals for students in schools across Minnesota.  She is grateful to continue to serve Agamim in this new role and help its staff and students flourish.

David McCarthy, Teacher Member
Email: dmccarthy@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 |  MN File Folder Number:  505403 | Term Expires: 6/2025

Mr. McCarthy has been a teacher at Agamim Classical Academy since 2020. He taught 3rd grade at Agamim for two years and is now the school's Academic Interventionist (K-8). Before becoming a teacher, he worked in media, mostly managing and editing websites for PBS. He has a BA from Columbia University, where he enjoyed studying the ancient classics along with contemporary scholarship. He speaks Spanish and some Hebrew, and delights in the range of languages that Agamim scholars speak. He is thankful to teach at a school with a great diversity of students united by common purpose. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two daughters.

Lucas Menzies, Teacher Member 
Email: lmenzies@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 |  MN File Folder Number:  499905 | Term Expires: 6/2026

Mr. Menzies teaches classical arts in Agamim’s Upper School and worked as a special education paraprofessional at Burnsville High School and as a history teacher at the American School of Kuwait in Kuwait City. Having an academic background in Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East, he loves teaching at a school that understands the traditions of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem to be the inheritance of every American. More than anything, he is proud that Agamim works to advance the citizenry of this country without cynicism and with America’s unifying, pluralist value of e pluribus unum (“out of many, one”) always in mind.

Mollie O’Brien, Parent Member 
Email: mollie@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 | Term Expires: 6/2027

Ms. O’Brien has been in the investor relations field for 20 years and currently leads the function at a large cap retailer in the Twin Cities. She and her husband have a blended family of five children, the youngest joined Agamim as a kindergartner in 2022. Ms. O’Brien was so impressed and grateful for the unique focus on virtues and the quality and rigor of the classical education approach that she wanted to volunteer her time and energy to helping the school continue to grow and flourish.

Ilan Sharon, Community Member
Email: ilan@agamim.org | Phone: 952-856-2531 | Term Expires: 6/2026

Mr. Sharon speaks at conferences, high schools, churches, synagogues, and non-profits across the nation educating Americans on the topic of Israel. Mr. Sharon was born in Haifa, Israel and served as an officer in the Israeli Defense Force before starting his own software company which brought him to the United States.

Advisory Partnerships:

*Great Minnesota Schools (GMS) in Minneapolis is focusing on schools and is uniquely committed to transforming education equity for students of all races, means, and origins. GMS helps to create more schools that work, ensuring a rigorous, relevant education that meets students’ diverse learning needs. By working with community partners, GMS supports parents in making informed enrollment decisions and advocating for their children within schools.

*Hebrew Public in New York City is a partner organization with Agamim Classical Academy in addition to seven other public charter schools nationwide. Hebrew Public can be reached at info@hebrewpublic.org.

*Agamim Classical Academy is authorized by Novation Education Opportunities (NEO). NEO’s Executive Director can be reached by email: executive.director.neo@gmail.com.