Team Group: Faculty

Katie John Katie John began her career as a teacher in the public school setting as a third grade teacher, then moved to reading and math intervention across elementary grades. She graduated from the University of Akron in 2021 as an honors scholar with a degree in education and a minor in history. She is…

Lindsay York Lindsay York is a homeschool mom who has raised three children on Veritas Press curriculum and VSA. Lindsay’s involvement in homeschooling came when her family served as missionaries in the Dominican Republic 10 years ago. After returning to the States in 2013, her husband Jayson became Senior Pastor of West Chicago Bible Church…

Mary Wright Mary graduated with distinction from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with a B.A. from the College of Math, Science, and Engineering. She also obtained a secondary teaching credential from CSULB and taught secondary mathematics for the Long Beach Unified School District for four years before staying home with her three children. While teaching…

​Melissa Teply Melissa Teply earned a B.S. in Secondary Education Biology from Crichton College in Memphis, TN in 1999. During her time in the Science department, she worked as a lab assistant and taught all the homeschool co-op classes. She started her teaching career at Germantown High School and then she and her husband moved…

​Caryn Kepford Caryn Kepford received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She continued her education with sixteen years of homeschooling her four children; seven years of teaching Art/Art History and three years as Academic Dean at the Maine Classical Christian School in Freeport, Maine; and five years of teaching Studio…

Mandy Southern Mandy Southern was born and raised in Northwest Oklahoma on a family farm where she learned the value of working hard and ideas essential for life. She graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Ministry and a Minor in Music. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in…

Shannon Strader Shannon Strader’s first teaching role was in clinical research at the University of Houston. She taught child behavior management, reading comprehension, and writing. It was through this door that she fell in love with teaching. She has over two decades of collective teaching experience in educational settings that vary from homeschooling her own…

Melanie Meadow Melanie Meadow says, as an author, she is a seeker of story, of the narratives of lives, of history, of God’s place in it and through us all. As a teacher, it’s her desire to impart the importance of story and writing into her students – even to those who might initially perceive…

Jonathan Tay Jonathan Tay has been following his calling as a teacher in Western Australia for over a decade, working with students in grades 7 through 12 in settings ranging from public schools to a private boys’ school. His main teaching areas and academic interests are History and Philosophy, though he has also taught English…