Aequora Site Fundraiser

Lecturer of Classics at Bowdoin College. Lifelong Badger, Gamer, Plutarchan living in Vacationland. Designs role-immersion games on Republican Rome, Trojan War.

I'm a professor of Classics at Davidson College. I'd been interested in Aequora for a while; last year two students, Cole Warlick and Eve Fickett, both rising seniors, came to me with an interest in using Aequora in the community center.

In the fall of 2018, two senior classics majors met with from 6-12 (varied) 4th and 5th graders in an after-school enrichment program on Friday afternoons throughout the semester. Aequora sessions were at the Ada Jenkins Community Center.

teacher at sjsu

I was fortunate to participate in a Paideia Living Latin in Rome program in the summer of 2019. In the summer of 2020, I co-founded a summer camp for 5 San Miguel boys (rising 7th and 8th graders). The aim was to prepare them for the standardized HS admissions tests, applications, interview and have some fun playing games and activities. One of the classes we taught was intro to Latin. The SMA students really enjoyed it and inquired about studying Latin as part of their school curriculum. I enjoy sharing my Latin background in every day examples of words that the students did mot know were rooted in Latin. It is an eye opening experience for many of them and a lot of fun when they make the connections between Latin and English (and sometimes Spanish).

I am a sophomore at Rye High School. This is my third year teaching at this Aequora site, but my first year as the site coordinator. I have taken 4 years of Latin in school, and like my students, I am learning new Latin every week. Our students are too young to take Latin in school, but in the past, students from this site go on to take Latin if their school offers it. Aequora's mission is to spread and promote Latin to people of all ages, and our program does that in a positive and engaging way.

Oliver Nusbaum is a Sophomore at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT, where he studies Latin and Greek. He spearheaded the launch of the Aequora program at the Don Bosco Center in the neighboring town of Port Chester. Oliver rows on Brunswick's Varsity Crew team and is the Creative Director for the school newspaper, The Brunswick School Review. Oliver is a soccer fan and appreciates a good bar of chocolate.

I currently work at a Metadata Librarian at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia linking the clinical and laboratory sides of pediatric medical research by designing and maintaining high quality metadata.

I studied Classics at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Ancient Greek philology and linguistics. I did some graduate study in Classics at the University of Notre Dame before going on to work in healthcare. Then, I transitioned into the Library Science field, working with Philadelphia history photographs in the Urban Archives at Temple University, with the rare books collection at the Penn Museum, and with audio-visual linguistic material at the University of Chicago. 

Anthony Parenti earned his B.A. in Classical Languages & Literature at Temple University. He currently teaches 8th grade Latin at Boys' Latin Charter School.

I am an associate professor and chair of the University of Mississippi Department of Classics. My department is deeply committed to accessibility and diversity, and are excited to promote "Latin for All!" in Mississippi's public schools. I am hoping this service learning opportunity for our students also encourages more of them to consider teaching Latin as a career!

Teacher, mother, wife, walker, chocoholic, music lover, purple fanatic, reader, writer