Cindy Brawley

Chair

Cindy moved to Colorado at the age of four and graduated from The University of Colorado with a BA in Sociology and BS in Nursing. She has practiced across the country for sixteen years in the areas of Cardiology, Orthopedics and Oncology. She currently works part time at The University of Colorado Hospital as an Outpatient Nurse. Cindy and her husband, Bob, have three children who attend BFA and they feel so grateful to a part of the school’s wonderful community. When not busy with work, school and the kids’ activities, the family loves to ski, camp and travel.

Mette Castor

Vice-Chair

Mette was born raised just outside Houston, Texas and attended Louisiana Tech University where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with minors in Biology and Chemistry.  She was crowned Miss Louisiana 1997 and after placing in the Top Ten at Miss America she traveled throughout Louisiana and the South speaking to thousands of students about the Character Counts! program and was instrumental in legislation requiring all schools in Louisiana to implement character education.  She worked for GlaxoSmithKline and Icos Biotech before becoming a full-time mom.  She and her husband Bill moved to Colorado in 2009 and in 2011 their oldest son was fortunate to be in the first class of BFA kindergarteners.  With their youngest in kindergarten this year, all three of their boys are now all together at BFA.

Sarah Nisbet

DAC Liaison

Sarah obtained a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas State University and is EC-4 certified in the state of Texas.  She has five years teaching experience in a Kindergarten classroom in Alvin, TX.  While teaching she became ESL certified, GT trained, was a member of the literacy collaborative, and mentored a new teacher and a student teacher.  Sarah is now a busy mom to three little girls, demonstrates Nespresso coffee machines on the weekends, does some admin work from home, and is Jr. Finance for her MOPS group.  When not helping at BFA Sarah enjoys hiking and biking with her girls and their dog Logan in beautiful Colorado!

Courtney Jurbala

Board Liaison

Courtney Jurbala is Secretary of the BFA Board. She holds Bachelors in both Accounting and Economics from Hartwick College in New York.  Ms. Jurbala also received her MBA from the University of Colorado. Ms. Jurbala has recently become the General Manager of Research Tissue and Cells for a subsidiary of AlloSource, a non-profit tissue bank, out of Centennial, Colorado. Prior to this change, she spent her entire career in Finance for several industries. Ms. Jurbala currently serves as the Board liaison for the School Accountability Committee (SAC).

Josh Rau

Administrator

Elaine Dunkel

Community Member

Candace McGinty

Teacher Liaison

Candace has been teaching more than 12​ years now. Candace received her Bachelor’s of Science in Education from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Candace taught third grade in Clyde, Texas and later moved to Aurora, Colorado to teach first, second, and third grades. In 1993, Candace had her first child and decided to be a stay-at-home mom.

​ Recently Candace earned an endorsement in Literacy and plans to use it to help students with reading disabilities. ​Candace has been teaching first grade at Ben Franklin Academy for 4​ years and had​ been substituting at Ben Franklin Academy for three years. She truly loves the students and families at BFA. She is  heavily invested in Core Knowledge curriculum, given that her own two children attended a Core Knowledge charter school. 

Candace lives in Highlands Ranch with her husband Scott of 28 years and a cute wiener dog named Wilson. She has a son, Preston, who graduated from Colorado State University and a daughter, Monica, who graduated from Pepperdine University in California.  She enjoys cooking, reading and crafting in her spare time.

Candace truly loves the BFA community and can’t wait to meet her new class of first graders!