Lower Elementary I Teachers

Ramiro Ruiz was born in Colom­bia. He received a B. A. in Phi­los­o­phy and Lit­er­a­ture from the Uni­ver­sity Pon­tif­i­cates Boli­var­i­ana. He is also a spe­cial­ist in Edu­ca­tional Plan­ning and Per­son­al­ized Edu­ca­tion. He has taught at the uni­ver­sity and high school level. He also worked as a school super­in­ten­dent and assis­tant prin­ci­pal. He holds an AMI Ele­men­tary Montes­sori certificate. Ramiro has been at TRIS since 2010.

Zeda Suswal was born in New Jersey and lived there until she was a teenager. She has lived in many places since including, most recently, Chicago, Illinois. There she taught in the public schools as a Special Education teacher for 5 years and went on to discover the beauty of Montessori and worked as an assistant for 3 years in a 6-9 classroom. Her passion for teaching children began overseas many years ago when she spent the summer working in China. She went on to continue teaching in other countries like Venezuela and Italy prior to working in the public schooling system. She has completed a BA in Psychology, a MA in Education and has her AMI diploma for Montessori Education. She joined TRIS in 2016.

Laleh Martin was born in Tehran, Iran. Her family fled the country to resettle in Paris, France when she was an infant. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in law and economics from Ecole Nationale de Commerce, she moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where she spent two years studying Swedish and Scandinavian literature at Stockholm's Folk Universitet. In the U. S. since 2003, she earned a B.A in Journalism from San Jose State University. She worked for three years as a tech reporter for the Red Herring. Laleh has a passion for foreign languages, Russian literature and Greek mythology.  She started at TRIS in 2016.