Ashley Leigh
Owner & Executive Director
Ashley is passionate about high quality early childhood education. Her own children inspired her to pursue her dreams and open Whole Babies Preschool & Childcare, LLC. She is also passionate about developing her team.
She is a certified childcare provider through the State of Oregon, has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies, holds a current Child Development Associate (CDA), and is a community trainer through the state of Oregon.
Felicia Baker
Operations Director, Seminole Provider
Felicia has been working for Whole Babies Preschool since 2014. She has experience working with infants/toddlers and extensive experience working with Preschoolers. She does a wonderful job of teaching children life skills and empowering them to advocate for themselves. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and has earned her Child Development Associate (CDA). She is a step 8.5 in the Oregon Registry. Felicia is a computer wiz, is a excel pro, and is amazing at creating systems.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading and gardening.
AnnaLeesa Egg
Infant/Toddler Director
Whole Babies on Hume
AnnaLeesa came to Whole Babies in 2020 on the recommendation of her twin sister Emilee, and has been with us ever since! She has loved spending time with all of the precious kiddos and serving all of the wonderful families these past few years!
AnnaLeesa has loved children for as long as she can remember. She grew up babysitting and serving in the nursery at church. She’s also had the opportunity to engage in children’s ministry in several different countries as she’s attended Bible College and gone on short term missions trips. She loves watching kids’ excitement at discovering the world around them, and their joy and laughter is so contagious!
In her free time she enjoys studying the Bible and serving as a high school counselor at her church. She also enjoys reading, playing video games, watching anime, training CrossFit and Jiu Jitsu, and playing with her sister’s sweet kiddos!
Matisyn Robischon
Infant/Toddler Director
Whole Babies on Chippewa
Mati started with Whole Babies as an Assistant Teacher. She has since worked with all age groups in just about every role Whole Babies has to offer. She is a passionate, calm, and thoughtful teacher. She enjoys continuing her Early Childhood Education training. She is currently a step 7 in the Oregon Registry and almost finished completing her CDA.
In her free time, she loves spending time with her wonderful family in Minnesota and Wisconsin. She likes to spend time with friends and sing at the top of her lungs on car adventures. She also happily shares cat custody of her kitten Jagger with her best friend Mick and enjoys watching movies with them. Lastly, whenever she can, she likes to go on hikes and practice her nature photography in the beautiful Oregon outdoors.
Sasha Thuener
Infant/Toddler Director
Whole Babies on Makah
Sasha the oldest of four kids, which of course led her to babysitting and realizing the joy of working with and caring for children. She is originally from California and her partner and I made their way to Oregon in 2010. She enjoys hanging out with her furbabies, watching movies and re-runs, and exploring Oregon. She has a Bachelors in Education and graduated December ‘22 with her Masters in Art. She loves painting and drawing things as realistically as possible!
Over the years Sasha has been a Teacher at Gymboree as well as taken on various roles in another childcare center before making her way here to Whole Babies!
Sasha loves singing and learning new things with the kids, and brings a positive energy to the classroom each and every day!
Ana Anguiano
Preschool Director
Whole Babies on Sunde
Ana is originally from Jalisco, Mexico. She moved to Oregon with her family - her mom and two sisters. She now has a niece and a nephew who she has helped her sister raise like her own, and loves! She loves to spend time with family and friends outside of work.
Ana enjoys being around kids of all ages - they teach you so much! Ana says it is such a great feeling to see them reach every milestone as they grow up, and to see parents help them achieve it too.
Ana brings such a calm, loving energy to work each day and is an amazing teacher. She teaches the kids Spanish words at circle time each day, and they are so excited to learn new things together!
Stephanie Sandefur
Preschool Director
Whole Babies on Seminole
Stephanie was born and raised in Australia, from the age of 16 she began babysitting for a 3 month old baby, this experience sparked her passion for childcare, She continued to babysit for that family and eventually came on full time as their nanny to help with their second child. She then began her studies in early childhood education through a traineeship program and from then on she worked as a Preschool educator.
She moved to the United States in 2015 to marry her husband. In April of 2018 they welcomed their beautiful daughter Daisy to their small family. In May 2020 their second daughter Bailey was born, and in August 2022 their son Noble joined the crew.
Steph says, “Motherhood is so rewarding and I see it as a true privilege to help nurture and educate your children.”
She loves her life here in Portland and some of her hobbies include spending time with my family, serving the community through her Church, exploring new coffee shops locally, taking her daughter for play dates at the park and she also love to sing.
Teresa Allman
Preschool Director
Whole Babies on 90th
Teresa comes to us with a wide variety of experience working with children. She previously worked at an elementary school and before that at a preschool. She enjoys working with children and being a part of their learning and growing process. She has 3 children of her own and they keep she and her husband pretty busy. They have Victoria who is 13, and identical twins Madison and Brooklyn who are 11. They spent a lot of our time watching our girls play their sports. Soccer seems to be their favorite. They also enjoy getting away to the beach when possible.
Holly Engelman
Preschool Director
Whole Babies on Siletz
Holly was born and raised in New Hampshire and has lived in Atlanta, GA, Boynton Beach, FL, Durham, NC, and finally settled in Oregon. She has always loved kids and started babysitting at a young age. Holly is a passionate educator and loves to teach the kids new things. She’s been working on teaching some ASL and Spanish in the classroom! She has two kids of her own, her daughter Hannah is 26 and her son Alex is 21.
She love sports of all kinds as well as reading, camping and occasionally baking. Her favorite team is the Boston Red Sox!