Kim Holt, Director, Founder
Kim attended school in Eastern Kentucky through high school, where she won awards for her work in youth-in-government programs and community service – including founding a tutoring and mentoring program for underprivileged Appalachian primary grade students. She then attended college at Middlebury College in VT where she was a Feb. 1992 honors graduate. Since college she has had a wide variety of jobs in the not-for-profit and for-profit sector, ranging from management of food-service establishments to grant writing for major non-profit organizations to working in the administration of the state’s mental health system. Throughout her life, since she was a 10 year old and was blessed with an infant brother, Kim has always worked with children and youth and has had a great deal of training and experience in doing so over the years.

Eric Love
Eric is an awarded professional fine and performing artist. Love has been teaching or the last 12 years in the subjects of art, science, theater, martial arts, self development and civility. Embodying all these interdisciplinary subjects, Love has developed a "Live Action Role Playing Adventure Program" call "Wizards, Warriors and You", which is offered at AEC amongst other subjects Love offers. In addition to working at AEC, Love works as a guidance counselor, fine and commercial production artist and operates and fronts a Boston-based rock band.

Sylvain Malfroy
Sylvain was raised in Arlington, went to private, then public school growing up. Learning to play piano has been one of his greatest joys. Making art and performing in plays rank up there, too. After High School, he attended Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where he studied Liberal Arts for three years. He is currently working at AEC, and is exploring his deep interest in the natural world with the Planet Ottoson environmental group. Sylvain's wish is that we continue to grow and to learn from each other on this beloved planet of ours.

Diana Weisner
Diana is a Master's Candidate in Creative Arts in Learning at Lesley University and has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Psychology from Temple University, with certification in creative writing. She has extensive experience working with children and youth including running a camp for autistic young people and working as a resident advisor for entering students at Temple. Diana joined AEC as an intern and was so loved by student and staff alike that she was hired on as a permanent staff member.