Amy holds a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on education, social sciences, and religion from Liberty University. She focused on early childhood for ten years before moving into homeschooling. She has continued her education, completing the CMI Core training, and is continuing her master's degree in the Great Books.  For the past 17 years, Amy has focused on homeschooling her children while currently helping others to develop the best in their children’s potential.  Amy is a mentor in the Alveary with CMI, hosts a local CM book club, runs a local homeschool library, is director of a local homeschool community outreach, and has run co-ops in the CM philosophy. Her goal is for every child to be able to have the life-giving education that Mason described teaching one child at a time.

Angelynn Ballew is a Canadian missionary kid to Brazil. She grew up in Brazil and loved the people, the rich culture, and Portuguese. Angel went to a small Christian college in Northeast Georgia, where she played volleyball and basketball, and got a Cross-Cultural Studies degree with a focus in Second Languange Acquisition. Angel married her husband right out of college, and they have three daughters ages 16, 14, and 12. She loves to sing, crochet, and be in nature. Angel and her family have been missionaries in Colombia for seven years. They homeschool, and lead a co-op of mostly new-to-homeschooling Colombian families.

Christina has been singing and performing for as long as she can remember. She has a Master of Music in Voice from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Voice from Biola University, Summa Cum Laude. She has also completed CMI’s CORE class, a teacher training course in the Charlotte Mason method. In the past, she performed in opera, musical theater, and as a recitalist in New York and the Los Angeles areas. Now she sings in church using an ancient form of music known as Byzantine chant. As a second-generation homeschooler, she spends her days raising four children ranging from middle school to a toddler, and has been using the Alveary from the start. Besides music, she loves nature, good books, kitchen adventures, science fiction, and spending time with family and friends.

Marcia Mattern completed her BS in Sciences (food and nutrition) from Eastern Illinois University and went on to work as a Dietitian for 27 years.  She began homeschooling her children in 2002 and has two children, of the six, still learning together under her roof.  She’s a nature lover and spends a lot of time out of doors in Central Illinois. Biology and Chemistry are two of her loves!  The Charlotte Mason Peoria community (CMPeoria.com) has been an outpouring of work for Marcia and her husband over the past 20 years through monthly book groups, coops, and conferences.  The community has also been a sharing of life with other families on the path of embracing a Charlotte Mason philosophy.  Marcia has been a speaker at various homeschooling conferences such as Charlotte Mason Institute, Living Education Retreat, Kansas City Area Catholic Homeschoolers conference, and the Charlotte Mason Peoria conferences.  Marcia and her husband created the first Charlotte Mason Family camp in 2017.  Marcia loves to speak on habit and virtue including practical ways of living with a large family.  Marcia hopes to ignite the love of science in your child through her Chemistry class!

Sharie Schnell has been a brand strategist and visual communications designer since 1991 helping nonprofits, ministries, and impact-driven businesses connect with their audiences. She likes to tell people she loves good design and designing for good. As an adjunct instructor at Indiana Wesleyan University, Sharie taught methods, principles, and tools of communication design in courses for aspiring graphic designers. She believes that in our highly visual world, everyone has an eye for design. We all make instant judgments about the quality, relevance, and credibility of what we see in order to filter through a daily tsunami of communications. We make these judgment calls based primarily on aesthetics. Learning the key principles of design can help anyone get their message noticed and taken seriously.