Teen Founders
It began with one team
It started with the 2025 Varsity Tennis Team — teens who decided a wholesome, substance-free island culture was worth building, and then went and built it.
- Gabby Fee
- the 2025 Varsity Tennis Team
Teen Leaders · 2026–27
This year's Navy
The leadership Navy for the 2026–27 school year. As the year starts and the mission gets underway, more leaders will emerge and be a part of NAW by invitation and application. We are just getting started.
Viki Bozhkova
Admiral
Demi Popnikolova
Admiral
Evie Phelps
Commander
Natalie Penkova
Lieutenant Commander
By design, no headshots.
We don't publish individual portraits of our teen members — you'll meet them at events.
Board of Directors
The adults holding the door
Nantucket Angel Warriors LLC — the adults who keep the lights on, the paperwork straight, and the doors open, so the teens can lead.
Luke Thornewill
President
Tedy Veleva
Vice President
Mauricio Valero
Treasurer
Mark Gerardi
Director
Suzanne Gerardi
Director
Gabby Fee
Director
Tina Hoskins Burney
Director
Polya Marinova
Director
Join the movement
Every name here started as someone who showed up.
Take the pledge, earn your rank, and lead by example. Teens and parents are welcome.
More on how this started over on our story, or see the movement in action in the mission gallery.