Meet our team.

Mary O’Malley, M.A., ET/P, has been an educational therapist, coach, and lifelong learner for nearly two decades.

She founded Green Door Learning, LLC in 2007 as a literacy remediation practice. It has since grown into a company that moves people toward freedom, expression, and awareness, for her clients, her colleagues, and herself.

Don Smith is an educator, artist, leader, and community builder who has spent more than 20 years supporting students. Don brings deep experience in independent school leadership, child development, multicultural education, advisory programming, faculty support, and school culture. With experience in administration and as a classroom teacher, Don supports students with subject-specific knowledge in Humanities, English and history; and in the underlying areas of writing support, study strategies, organization and planning skill building and strategy development. He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational and Private School Leadership from Columbia University Teachers College/Klingenstein Institute and was honored with the 2025 Bessie Bruington Burke Excellence in Education Award. What makes Don’s work distinct is the way he blends rigor with warmth. He is as comfortable analyzing systems as he is creating a song, leading a workshop, writing poetry, or sitting with a student who needs to be understood. As a singer-songwriter, spoken word poet, author, and facilitator, Don believes education should make room for intellect, identity, creativity, and joy.