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, Theater and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
AB Theater Studies 2004, Duke University
MFA Theater 2012, UCLA
Rose Chen
Mandarin Instructor
BA Japanese & International Business, Chinese Culture University, 1997
MS Retailing, Michigan State University, 2008
Brian Clark
STEM and Symposium Instructor Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Psychology and Mathematics, Pomona College, 2012
Sydney Delaney
English, 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, Ceramics and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018
Will Groening
Japanese Teaching Assistant
Wednesday Hobson
English, Symposium and Great Ideas Instructor Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Liberal Studies 2012, Loyola Marymount University
MA English 2016, Loyola Marymount University
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 Instructor
BA Film, Southern Methodist University, 1994
Peter McNamara
French, Italian and Spanish 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
Carlos Steinkamp Calandria
Spanish, Great Ideas and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Liberal Arts 2019, Hampshire College
Maggie Storm
Director of Admissions and Enrollment
BA Liberal Arts, Individual Studies, 2022
JC Wright
History, Great Ideas, Symposium, Band, Robotics and Senior Master Class Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
BA Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 2017
MA Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 2018
Charlie Watson
Photography Instructor
BA Graphic Design, Middlesex University, 1990
