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.
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 Clarke
STEM and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Psychology and Mathematics, Pomona College, 2012
Sydney Delaney
English, History, Great Ideas and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Art History and Italian Literature, Pitzer College 2006
MA English Literature, Loyola Marymount University, 2020
Ethan Dunleavy
STEM, Latin, Band, Ceramics and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018
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
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
Robert Johnson
STEM, English Instructor
Fellow at Areté institute
BA Film, Southern Methodist University, 1994
Ramsey Lawrence
Spanish and History Instructor
BA Foreign Affairs and Latin American Studies,
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
MA Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature,
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
M.Ed Educational Leadership, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile, 2018
Peter McNamara
Spanish and French Instructor
BA Italian Studies / BA East Asian Studies, John Carroll University, 2013
Sarah Pan
Visual Arts Instructor
BFA Game Art, Concept Emphasis, Laguna College of Art and Design, 2019
Michelle Ratliff Willett
Campus Engagement Specialist History, Symposium and French Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Psychology, UC Irvine, 2011
Maggie Storm
Director of Admissions, Enrollment and Retention
BA Liberal Arts, Individual Studies, Antioch University, 2022
Joe Stromberg
Math Instructor
BS Finance, University of Kansas Lawrence, 2012
JC Wright
History, Great Ideas, Symposium and Band Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 2017 MA Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 2018
