Anna Barber

Anna Barber is a recent graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute and Biola University, where she studied Psychology and English. Her experience of the classical education model began as a Torrey Academy student, and continued through her undergraduate education at Torrey Honors and her semester at Oxford University. She is passionate about learning, the life of the mind, literature, writing poetry and fiction, and helping others live more authentic lives.

Tim Bartel

This year marks Timothy Bartel's fifth with Torrey Academy and is his fourth as a Master Tutor. He was raised by two teachers and has been involved with and interested in classical, Christian education since junior high. A graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute and Biola Univeristy, Timothy is currently working on his Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry at Seattle Pacific University. His academic interests include contemporary poetics, ancient philosophy, theological aesthetics, and poetry of all sorts, especially the poetry of America, Japan, and the Church Fathers. He writes poetry, drama, and fiction, and loves theatre.

Leilani Brim

Leilani Brim is a recent graduate of Biola University where she majored in Humanities. Her passions include history because it is alive with stories of real people, writing because it allows good communication, and travel because it brings new places to life.

Keith Buhler

Since graduating from the Torrey Honors Institute and Biola University in 2004, Keith Buhler has been passionately pursuing intellectual growth in a variety of formal contexts, working especially with the Torrey Honors Institute to intellectually form young people under the lordship of Jesus Christ. Home-schooled for many years, Keith enjoys the freedom and challenge of home education, as well as the immense opportunity for growth through Socratic discussion of the Great Books of Western civilization. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy from Talbot at Biola and plans to continue studies in Philosophy and Theology. His interests include Greek philosophy, contemplative prayer, and screenwriting.

Michael Fatigati

Michael Fatigati spent four years growing in the Torrey Honors Institute and the philosophy and English departments at Biola University. When he is not hiking or spending time with his beautiful new wife, Jamie, he practices the virtue of patience while reading medieval philosophy and translating the Bible.

Chad Glazener

Chad Glazener graduated Summa Cum Laude from Biola University in 2008 with a BA in Biblical and Theological Studies. As an alumnus of the Torrey Honors Institute, Chad is wholly committed to the great books style of education. His primary academic interest is in the convergence of theology and the arts, with special regard to theatre and the imagination, and he hopes to pursue graduate work in the combination of these disciplines.

Patrick Grafton-Cardwell

Patrick Grafton-Cardwell is a recent graduate of Torrey Honors Institute and Biola University, where he obtained a B.S. in Music with an emphasis in Music in Worship. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy from Talbot seminary. His academic interests lie in a number of areas, including but not limited to the moral formation of the soul through education, the combination of story and music as a form of communication, Japanese culture and thought, and the epistemology of spiritual experience.

Bradley Griffiths

Bradley is a member of the Torrey Honors Institute (2005) and a Biola graduate (2006) with a B.S. in biochemistry. Bradley's academic interests include classical education, epistemology, storytelling, philosophy of science, bioethics, microbiology, and dialectic about anything. His personal interests include film (excluding the Josserhorn), mystery stories, G.K. Chesterton, and criminalistics.

Peter Gross

Peter David Gross graduated from Biola and the Torrey Honors Institute in 2009. While there, he studied Anthropology and Philosophy, performed in Torrey Theatre and Biola Theater productions, and served as Editor of THI’s Symposium. He has a deep love for visual beauty and an insatiable appetite for philosophical conversations.

Sharon Harrington

Sharon is a member of the Torrey Honors Institute and an alumna of Biola University. She recently spent two years in Cameroon, West Africa, where she had the privilege of homeschooling three missionary children, learning the Oroko language, and assisting in the production of an Oroko-English dictionary. Her interests include languages, music, and Arthurian literature. She lives with her husband in Redlands, California.

Daniel Reynolds

Dan Reynolds holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from Roberts Wesleyan College, a Masters in Practical Theology from Regent University, a Masters of Divinity from Reformed Episcopal Seminary, and is currently completing a doctoral program in Moral Theology. He is interested in ancient and British history, Indo-European linguistics, and the theology of civilisation.

Katherine van Elswyk

Kat loves the combination of books and highschoolers. As a homeschooler, she knows the experience that most formed her success in college was reading aloud good books with her mom. Now, as a Torrey Honors alumnus with a degree in English, she deftly engages students as they grow through books.

Dr. John Mark Reynolds

John Mark Reynolds is the founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University. He is the author of several books, including Maker of Heaven and Earth: Three Views on the Creation and Evolution Debate, which was co-authored with J.P. Moreland. His latest book, Towards a Unified Platonic Human Psychology, is a close examination of Plato's view of the soul as seen in the Timaeus.

Dr. Reynolds is a sought-out lecturer on various topics, including cultural trends, philosophy of science, and homeschooling. He is a regular guest on radio talk shows, including the Hugh Hewitt show. He also actively blogs on cultural issues at scriptoriumdaily.com.

Dr. Fred Sanders

Fred Sanders is a systematic theologian whose special interest is the doctrine of the Trinity. He is committed to putting evangelicals in touch with their own heritage in the great tradition of Christian theology. Dr. Sanders majored in art in college, and was the writer and cartoonist for a series of theological comic books, Dr. Doctrine's Christian Comix. Dr. Sanders has been a professor at the Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University since 1999. He and his wife Susan have two children, Freddy and Phoebe.

Jill McKinsey

Senior Academic Administrator, Torrey Academy

Jill McKinsey graduated from Biola with a degree in European History, and from the Torrey Honors Institute, in 2000. From her experience in the Torrey Honors Institute, and from her semester studying at Oxford University, Jill developed a passion for teaching using the Classical Education model, and for studying and teaching Great Books. This will be Jill's sixth year with Torrey Academy. During her first three years, she lived in the Central Valley and taught Inklings and Foundations at Fresno, Bakersfield and Visalia, and also taught online Foundations. Her fourth year, she taught full-time in Southern California as a Master Tutor, and was the Emmaus Forum Coordinator for Summer 2006. She was promoted to Senior Academic Administrator in July of 2006.

Holly Vander Wall

Academic Coordinator, Torrey Academy

Holly Vander Wall is a member of Torrey Honors Institute and an alumna of all three TA core classes. Since spending the spring of 2008 at Oxford University studying the Old Norse-Icelandic language and translating Eddic poetry, Holly hopes to pursue a degree in European Studies or Comparative Literature. Holly was born in Tennessee but mostly grew up in southern Colorado. Her areas of interest include ancient northern languages, Oxford, T.S. Eliot, J.R.R. Tolkien, sacramental theology, postcolonial literature, Mary Karr, ancestral memory, traveling, and environmental stewardship.