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The Lower School at Trinity School is rich soil, an intricate jewel, a safe haven and home for my three children. Since starting with our first there in Kindergarten, each have been emersed in a rich curriculum feast for their minds.Whether it be through taping out a pioneer cart on the floor and imagining what can fit, to learning about Italy through celebrating its Christmas traditions, to finishing a fairy tale unit by writing one of their own and acting it out, the Lower School teachers have, with dedication and creativity, figuratively guided my children through the rich soil of an excellent curriculum.

It is a safe haven. Each day when I drop my children off, they bumble out of the car and into a hallway where faces that know and love them welcome them in with love and joy. Each afternoon, when I pick them up, whether the day has held the most epic Gaga ball game ever or the hardest argument with a friend, they come back to me full and whole. They come back to me richer in their minds, hearts, and experiences. They come back; and in a world that is full of questions, thinness, and uncertainty, Trinity is a school that nurtures and cares for my child with the deepest of things, and they return to me better for it.

Grace permeates interactions in Trinity Lower School and it fills my heart with happiness each day.

The students are eager to learn and treat one another with kindness in the classroom and on the playground. I look forward to the deep conversations we have in my Lower School classroom where students show the wisdom and wonder of God's presence in every subject.

I think the strength of Trinity is its ability to welcome new people to the community. The teachers are always willing to help and answer your questions.

My entire time at Trinity was filled with excellent, passionate teachers and enriching, challenging classes. At Trinity I discovered that the academic study of Christianity was what I hoped to dedicate my life’s work to.

My senior capstone project helped me hone my skills in reading and critically engaging with primary source, ancient material (a skill I use constantly). I began to learn how to approach the past with charity, treating their words as I would want my own to be treated. I am pursuing a M.A. in Divinity at the University of Chicago. I specialize in early Christian literature and the rhetoric of community formation in the early Jesus movement through the 4th century. I am hoping to pursue a Ph.D. in the same field, to continue developing the same critical and charitable skills I used in my capstone, engaging with the ancient history of Christians.