Ellen Norris loves her work as a middle school English teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating with a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College in 2014, she married a fellow Hillsdale alumnus. She is passionate about education and literature.
Margaret (Freeland) Gassner graduated from Hillsdale College with a B.A. in Accounting and German. She returned home to the Pacific Northwest, where she works in the estate, gift, and trust tax group at a large accounting firm. When she’s not at work, you might find her outside hiking or in the kitchen testing a new recipe. She and her husband also enjoy running a small Airbnb and contributing to the hospitality ministries of their local church.
Alexandra Gaiser is an attorney living in Houston, Texas. She enjoys performing improv and stand-up comedy, listening to early jazz, skeet shooting, and making faces in the mirror during group gym classes.
Caroline Newman is a writer and marketer living in Charlottesville, VA. She is a proud Anglophile, a huge college football fan, and she loves being with family and friends, traveling to new places, and finding new writing topics.
Richard Dick served in the submarine Navy for 30 years (active and reserve) and retired from the Defense Department in 2015. As a Navigator and church elder, Richard teaches, leads home group and small group Bible studies, and likes to encourage folks. He and his wife enjoy movies, dining out, museums, battlefields (how cool is that - a wife who likes battlefields?!), and stocking his basement with treasures from secondhand book sales.
Julia Wilson graduated from Hillsdale College with a B.S. in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Theatre. She applies her scientific knowledge to her career as a massage therapist and aromatherapist, while satisfying her artistic side by reading, singing, dancing, writing, creating works of calligraphy, and enjoying and participating in theatre whenever possible.
Rachel Basinger is the 9th and 12th grade Humane Letters Teacher at Providence Classical School and a proud alumna of Hillsdale College. She considers Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince the best book on life besides the Bible and loves to read history. Lately, Rachel has been fascinated with studying Henry Kissinger.
Daniel Slonim is pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics at Purdue University. He studied math and philosophy at Hillsdale College. His interests include metaphysics, theology, natural law, and politics. At Hillsdale he met his beautiful wife Rebekah, with whom he enjoys talking about the aforementioned subjects, memorizing poetry, and discussing the fine points of grammar. His favorite hobby is finding unsuspecting victims and talking to them about math for as long as he can keep them in the room (and conscious).
Madison Kearney is a graduate of Hillsdale College and Franciscan University, and currently teaches in Phoenix. She enjoys sipping wine, reading T.S. Eliot, and watching desert sunsets with her fiancé.