Somerset Leadership & Administration
Ms. Jeanine Opyr
Director
- Bachelor of Science: Early Childhood Development & Elementary Teaching, ZA Endorsement
- 8 years teaching experience
- Preschool Coordinator/Teacher, William Beaumont Hospital – Children’s Speech Pathology Dept.
- Royal Oak, Michigan (01/97 – 10/2004)
- 10 years Early Childhood Education Administrative experience (Owned and operated Children’s Academy for Learning Rochester Hills, 01/07 – 7/2017)
- 7th year at Somerset
Sheela Swarup
Executive Director, Partner
- M.S. in Administrative Education
- 40+years teaching experience
- Pre-K teacher at Somerset ECC for 11 years
- Executive Director at Somerset since 1989
- Partner in Somerset ECC since 2005
- 36 years with Somerset ECC in total
- Has presented workshops at MiAEYC Conferences and also an early childhood conference at Oxford University in England
Anne E. Porter Ph. D.
Somerset Founder/Consultant, Partner
- BA in Developmental Psychology
- BS in Economics and Business Administration
- Undergraduate concentration in Computer Science
- MAT in Early Childhood Education
- Ph.D. in Evaluation and Research in Education (Research Design & Statistics)
- Peace Corps Volunteer, Recife, PE, Brazil 1970-72
- Director, Lowry Toddler Program, 1974-79, Oakland University
- Early Childhood Education professor 1979-81
- Instructional Systems Technology professor, 1981-2014, Dept of Reading and Language Arts
- Digital Literacies and Learning professor, 2014-2016 (program name change)
- As one of Somerset’s founders, this is Anne’s 40th year with Somerset E.C.C.
Miss DeAnna J.
Administrative Assistant
- 20+ years of office experience
- 11th year at Somerset