Our Faculty

Passionate learners Make Passionate Teachers

Our teachers are chosen not only for their outstanding academic accomplishments but also for their enthusiasm for teaching and learning, along with their willingness to put students’ ideas at center stage. Our teachers model genuine intellectual passion and humility coupled with a sincere respect for every learner.

In seminars, teachers don’t lecture. Rather, they create learning opportunities, help students ask better questions, and guide them to explore layered answers. Teachers and students value the learning process as much as the outcome, and view the classroom as a place to share and nurture individual and mutual passions.

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Anne Butler-Swiech

Director 6-12 / English Teacher
English, Great Ideas, Theater and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute

BA Theater Studies, Duke University, 2004
MFA Theater, UCLA, 2012

Brian Clark

STEM and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute

BA Psychology and Mathematics, Pomona College, 2012

Wednesday Hobson

English, Symposium, Great Ideas Senior Master Class Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute

BA Liberal Studies, Loyola Marymount University, 2012
MA English, Loyola Marymount University, 2016
MA Education, Leadership and Change, Antioch University, 2019

Ethan Dunleavy

STEM, Latin, Band, Ceramics and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute

BA Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018

Mio Honke Hahn

Director of Advancement
Japanese Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute

BA International Relations Tsuda College Tokyo, 2002
MA English (TESOL Concentration), San Francisco State University, 2004
MA Education, Leadership and Change, Antioch University, 2020