Kevin Marshall Is Recognized for Outstanding Environmental Stewardship

St. Ignatius Loyola Academy (SILA) is proud to share that Kevin Marshall is the 2025 recipient of the National Educator Award for Outstanding Environmental Stewardship, also known as “The Buddy”.

Kevin is a Teacher and Student Activities & Service Director at SILA, which is located in Baltimore, MD. He has been a champion of environmental education and youth engagement for over a decade. Kevin is a proud SILA alum, and he has played a vital role in the school’s Buddy Bison School Program since 2018. His leadership has helped every student at the school, across all four grades, connect with the outdoors through hands-on learning experiences that incorporate park exploration woven into their academic curriculum year-round.

From organizing local and national park visits to leading activities that inspire stewardship, Kevin’s impact goes far beyond the classroom. He also served as the Park Trust’s Youth Programs Fellow for the past two years, providing guidance to the organization’s board and supporting efforts to expand youth engagement nationwide.

We join St. Ignatius Loyola Academy in celebrating Kevin’s recognition and encouraging his great work to educate the whole child.

Brooklyn Jesuit Prep Welcomes Its Next Principal

We are excited to join BJP in welcoming Ms. Maysa Antonio as the school’s next Principal! Ms. Maysa joins BJP with significant experience in educational leadership. For the past five years, she has served as an Assistant Principal at Hunter College High School in Manhattan. Before moving to Hunter, she served as Principal of St. Joseph’s High School (now closed) in downtown Brooklyn. That is where she began her formal career in education as a math teacher, progressing to become department chair and then assistant principal. Ms. Antonio holds multiple degrees, including a Master of Science in Education, Administration, and Supervision from Fordham University. She not only understands the value of a Jesuit, Catholic education from first-hand experience, but also wholly believes in the students, faculty, and mission of BJP.

Loyola Academy of St. Louis Receives $40,000 Grant to Support Its Nutrition Program

Loyola Academy of St. Louis announced it received a grant for $40,000 from Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S. This grant will be used toward supporting the nutrition program for students at Loyola Academy.

Bayer Fund and Loyola Academy of St. Louis share a mutual goal of seeing the communities we serve flourish. Students at Loyola Academy are in attendance from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM each day. This grant from Bayer Fund will support Loyola Academy’s young men by providing a daily healthy and nutritious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack to ensure that each student is fully fueled and engaged in the classroom throughout the extended school day. As a previous grant recipient, Loyola Academy students have outpaced their same-aged peers on the nationally normed NWEA assessment in mathematics, language usage, and science for the last nine years.

Bayer Fund supports Bayer, one of the country’s largest life sciences companies, mission of Health for All, Hunger for None by working with organizations and non-profits, like Loyola Academy, to support health and wellness and food and nutrition.

“Bayer Fund is proud to support Loyola Academy and their work to make real, sustainable impacts in their community,” said Michael Parrish, President of Bayer Fund. “Programs like Loyola Academy combat the critical issue of food insecurity, and we’re honored to play a role with helping even more people in our community have access to healthy, nutritious food.”

Last year, Bayer Fund supported more than 2,200 charitable and nonprofit organizations to help address essential needs in food and nutrition and health and wellness. To learn more about Loyola Academy of St. Louis, please visit www.loyolaacademy.org.

About Bayer Fund

Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the communities where Bayer customers and employees live and work by providing funding for food and nutrition, education, and health and wellness projects. For more information, please visit www.fund.bayer.us.