Dr. Josh Herring spent 13 years working for Thales Academy as a classical instructor, administrator, and college professor. He is the author of Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis's Images of Gender. He loves helping students of all ages and stages discover their intellectual heritage; he is the founder of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies, a member of both the Ciceronian Society and the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and a follower of Jesus. He and his wife Jennifer live in the Raleigh, NC area. 

Lisa Wurtz spent the preliminary part of her career teaching in elementary schools throughout the New York metro area before transitioning to higher education. This journey instilled a passion for classical education as the best way to address the academic, emotional, and spiritual needs of developing children. She is deeply committed to helping the classical renewal movement after experiencing the failures of progressive models. She is the Co-Founder of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies and a member of the Ciceronian Society. She lives outside Raleigh, North Carolina, with her wonderful husband and two children.

Sean C. Hadley has been teaching in the Classical Education world since 2012, working directly in the classroom and in administration across two different schools. He earned his PhD from Faulkner University and spent two years conducting post-doctoral research on Classical Education at the University of Arkansas. His writing has appeared in Touchstone magazine, The Consortium Journal, and Classis journal. His wife Sarah graciously tolerates his eccentricities, and his four children have learned to laugh at his jokes.

Annie Crawford is a classical educator and cultural apologist with an M.A. in Apologetics from Houston Christian University. With over twenty years of experience, she currently teaches courses on C.S. Lewis, apologetics, and the Great Books for The Symbolic World, Discovery Institute, and Vine Classical Hall where she serves as Vice President. Her writing has appeared in The Consortium Journal, Salvo, An Unexpected Journal, Mere Orthodoxy, and Sehnsucht. Annie lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their three daughters where she rides classical dressage and worships at St. Patrick's Anglican Church. She is the Director of the Certificate in C.S. Lewis Studies.

Chris has over a decade of experience working in classical schools across America as an instructor and administrator. Though a historian by training, he has a passion for the Humanities and believes that a generation grounded in the Great Tradition will be able to reclaim those things that are True, Good, and Beautiful. He is encouraged by the classical school movement and eager to support the development of teachers willing to join the cause. He is grateful for the many mercies in his life, especially his wife and son, who model what it means to be driven by a sense of wonder. He is the Director of the Certificate in the History of Western Civilization.

Jason Jewell is the chief academic officer and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives of the State University System of Florida. Prior to that, for twenty years he chaired the Department of Humanities at Faulkner University, where he directed degree programs based on the Great Books and trained teachers and administrators for work in classical schools. For many years, he and his wife homeschooled their seven children with a classical curriculum, and they now enroll their children in a brick-and-mortar classical school.

Karen has served with Rafiki since 1990, including 12 years on the mission field, primarily in Nigeria. Upon returning to the U.S., she became the Director of Africa Operations, responsible for managing the Orphan Care and Education Programs and curriculum development for all ten Rafiki Villages. In 2012 she was named Rafiki's Executive Director.

Prior to joining Rafiki, she worked for ten years in the banking industry as a commercial lender, management trainer, and Vice President. She holds a BBA in finance/accounting and a music minor from Southern Methodist University, a Master’s degree in Education (Curriculum and Instruction) from the University of Texas (Arlington), and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Faulkner University.

Karen is a member of St. Andrews Chapel in Sanford, Florida, and served many years as a teaching leader for Bible Study Fellowship while in Texas and Africa. Karen served as a founding board member for LifeHouse, a home for unwed mothers in Houston, Texas. She also serves as President of the Rafiki Education Foundation, the umbrella organization of the Rafiki Classical Academy in Eustis, Florida.

Her paper was published in The Consortium: A Journal of Classical Christian Education with an article entitled "What Does Athens have to do with Abuja?: Why a Christian Liberal Arts Education is Appropriate for and Essential to African Church Schools."

Mark Bauerlein is Contributing Editor at First Things, trustee at New College of Florida, and Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University, where he taught after earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1988. For two years, he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Whitman and the American Idiom, Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. His commentaries and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Philosophy and Literature, Yale Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, TLS, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Weekly Standard, Boston Globe, New York Post, and other national periodicals. He has appeared on CNN, BBC World Today, Fox and Friends, ABC's 20/20, Nightline, PBS Frontline, CBS News, All Things Considered, and other national venues.

William G Batchelder has a Masters Degree in English and Medieval History from the University of St Andrews, a Masters Degree and Doctorate in History from The Ohio State University.  He is a Professor of History and Honors Program Director at Waynesburg University.  Dr. Batchelder is co-editor and contributor to The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion and the Self (Bloomsbury, 2025).  He is the Chairman of the Ciceronian Society, a Christian interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of Tradition, Place, and Things Divine.  

Daniel Foucachon grew up in Lyon, France, where his father was a church-planter and presbyterian minister. He graduated from New Saint Andrews College in 2010 with a degree in Liberal Arts and Culture, and in 2011 founded Roman Roads Press, a publishing house for classical Christian curriculum. In 2019 he founded Kepler Education, a marketplace for classical Christian educators to offer online classes. He serves on various boards that share a common theme: the renewal of classical Christian learning. Daniel lives on 5 acres of beautiful north Idaho land in Moscow, Idaho with his wife Lydia who shares his love of the classics, and his seven children (four boys, and three girls ages 2-16), who are classics-lovers in training. 

For over twenty-five years, Carrie Eben has championed classical education in both the private school classroom and homeschool arenas. She currently serves as founding board member at Sager Classical Academy in Siloam Springs, AR and is a Head Mentor for the CiRCE Institute Master Teacher Apprenticeship for the Ozark Mountain region. As a consultant, she develops and delivers customized workshops and mentorship for administrators, teachers, and parents in both classical school and homeschool settings (www.classicaleben.com). Carrie holds a BSE in Intermediate Education, a MSEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Oklahoma State University and is currently a PhD (ABD) candidate in the Great Books Humanities program at Faulkner University. She is co-author of The Good Teacher: Ten Pedagogical Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching with Dr. Christopher Perrin.

I was born in Rochester, NY but have spent the majority of my adult life in the Southeastern United States. I do love the south as a unique place in God's creation. I have been blessed to serve at a few different institutions of higher education. In addition to teaching at a few different colleges and universities, I have enjoyed consulting with numerous Classical/Classica Christian schools and being the Headmaster for the past ten years. I have a PhD in Humanities and a DA in Social Sciences.

I have long enjoyed the Great Books. We are a family of readers. Among my favorite authors are Homer, Plato, Cicero, Dante, Petrarch, Erasmus, Christina Rossetti, Flannery O’Connor, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Wendell Berry, and Richard Wilbur. In recent years I have really come to enjoy the novels of Ross MacDonald (detective fiction), Zoran Živković (very unique fiction), and Michael D. O’Brien (contemporary Catholic novelist with the depth and insight of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky).

My wife Tina and I are enjoying the good life in northeast Georgia with our two cats and five chickens. Dog and garden forthcoming!

Dr. Paul Weinhold is Assistant Dean, Director of Classical Education Graduate Program and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Classical Education at the University of Dallas.  For over twenty years, he has been a teacher and leader in classical education.  His academic interests include Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, early modern educational practices, and the trivium.