Johanna “YoYo” Winkel (She/Her)

Assistant Guide

Serving Mountain Shadows since 2025


YoYo is a singer-songwriter-musician who has traveled all over and lived in pretty much every time zone at least twice! She attended AMDA Conservatory in Los Angeles, continuing on to perform in many musical theater productions and working as both a wedding singer and private events entertainer. 

YoYo has spent past summers as a bunkhouse counselor at Adventure Unlimited Ranches camp in Buena Vista, Colorado. She held the title of Aftercare Assistant at the Linden Waldorf school during 2023 and 2024, then journeying on as the Assistant teacher, Sub and Floater in the Marigold Class at BVW during the summer and fall of 2025. 

At Mountain Shadows Montessori YoYo is very much looking forward to sharing in the joy of learning through expression, empathy, patience, music and play! 

Education is not something which the teacher does, but a natural process that develops spontaneously in the human being.
— Maria Montessori