Elementa Online

Cody Butler

Cody Butler is a graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York where he studied Latin, Ancient Greek and German. At Hunter College he was one of the inaugural recipients of the Solomon Bluhm Fellowship which afforded him the opportunity to study in Rome with the historian Myles McDonnell. Since graduating he has worked in education non-profits as a literacy interventionist with younger students before stepping into a full time position as the sole Latin and Classical Studies instructor at a New York City High School.

Jamel Daugherty

After almost a decade of teaching languages, Jamel left the classroom to focus on writing curriculum. Jamel developed materials for the Aequora program, served as a subject matter expert for the Institute's Summer Humanities Internship in 2017, and joined as a full time curriculum designer for 2018. She holds degrees in Classics and Letters from the University of Oklahoma and is pursuing a M.A. in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University. Outside classics and linguistics, Jamel is particularly interested in Irish archaeology and literature. She lives near Washington, DC with her husband, young son, and feisty calico.

Cecile Kurman-Browning

Cecile graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with an AB in Classical Studies. Her interests include Roman archaeology and art history, and she hopes to work as a museum educator in the future. She is an alumna of 2017 Living Latin in Rome program.

Emily Landau

Jacquelyn Myers

Jacque (Iacoba) Myers studied Latin and Greek at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and she taught middle school and high school Latin for 20 years. Her greatest joys as a Latin teacher were taking students to JCL conventions and watching first-year Latin students make progress in their new language. In her free time, Jacque enjoys visiting Greece, organizing and attending Latin-speaking workshops, and watching Dr. Who.

Emma Wynne

Emma Wynne is a class of 2018 graduate of Christendom College with her B.A. in Classical and Early Christian Studies.  After leading Classical Tours in Italy, she joined Paideia's Curriculum Design team and teaches the Elementa curriculum for Elementa Online.