Introducing the Renegade Team

Our experienced team is comprised of lifelong learners who embody the Renegade Tinkering Club values and are enthusiastic about inspiring and nurturing your kids. Our hiring process ensures we get the best and the brightest. Their experience and skills are complimented by in-depth training in our curriculum which includes a focus social emotional learning and building community. Everyone has been fingerprinted, passed a background check and passed a TB test.

Terri David, Founder + Co-President + Chief Content Developer + Brand Identity

Terri heads up all of content development for Renegade Tinkering Club, including curriculum, course planning, project books, and design, and has written a fictional book that's under review by publishers. Terri, a lifelong maker of things and user of power tools, moved to San Francisco in 1996 to pursue a career merging art, technology, and storytelling in the field of digital animation. Throughout her career, she worked as character animator, lead animator, art director, creator, writer, wrangler, and manager as one of the few women in her industry. When her brilliant daughter refused a Lego summer camp because "all the boys make fun of her," and remembering her own experiences as a young girl actively discouraged from pursuing her love of programming, she knew there had to be a way to be the change she wanted to see in the world. Partnering with her friend Vicky and armed with an undying love of Making and experience as a woman in a male-dominated career, Terri teamed up to create the Renegade Girls Tinkering Club.

Vicky Keston, Founder + Co-President + Chief Operations + Business Development

Vicky heads up operations and business, which includes everything needed to make our daily classes happen, including hiring, scheduling, obtaining supplies for camps, site selection, partnering with schools, marketing and bill paying. Vicky, who always loved math and science, was first frustrated when her father taught only her brother how to build things. Vicky moved to the Bay Area in 1989 after earning a BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. She worked for GE in the field of nuclear power for five years before earning her MBA from Stanford University and switching to biotechnology, where she worked with various startups and at Genentech for 8 years. Vicky then returned to her roots in engineering when she co-founded Gooseling and taught herself to program video game apps for kids while working with friend Terri. One morning play date at the Exploratorium, Vicky’s son took over the marble run building from Terri’s daughter, which inspired Vicky to partner with Terri to make math and engineering fun and accessible to girls. Vicky credits her son with pushing for a coed program to teach boys to include girls in their tinkering.

Briony Doyle, Curriculum Director + Camp Director + Teaching Director

Briony Doyle is Curriculum Director, Camp Director and Tinkering Teacher for Renegade Girls, and is our longest tenured team member, starting with us in September 2015. Tutoring since high school, she loves to share her love of math with others. She has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Master of Biomedical Engineering, and still freelances as a biological signals analyst in addition to her tutoring and RGTC work. RGTC gave her the opportunity to combine all these loves. The first curriculum she wrote for RGTC was our popular "Math Mayhem" camp. She went on to create projects for Wearable Tinkering and Fairy Tale Engineering. She is currently developing Renegade Physics. Briony lives in San Francisco with her husband and 5 year old daughter. She hails from Australia, and sometimes puzzles the kids with her pronunciation of "lever". She loves teaching, crafting, tinkering with her daughter, and explaining to people how awesome monotremes are.

Cary Fischer, Teacher + Operations

Cary has a BS in elementary education/psychology and earned her teaching credential in Connecticut. Since the age of 12, Cary has cared for and worked with children, and appreciates their playfulness, innocence and idealism. Cary lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children; she loves traveling, spending time with family and friends, and volunteering at her kids’ school. She is excited to join the Renegade Team because their approach to teaching helps each child reach her full potential by embracing individual personalities and learning styles.