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, teaches 5th grade Sunday school, 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.

Stacy is a lifelong pianist with a Music Education degree from Carson Newman College and currently hosts a small studio of piano students.  She has been homeschooling her four children for eight years using Charlotte Mason's philosophies through the Alveary’s curriculum. She enjoys learning more about her methods and practice in a weekly book club where they discuss Charlotte Mason's volumes. Stacy also is active in her church, teaching church school for elementary students. She and her family love hiking and camping in the mountains near their Virginia home. She is excited to help facilitate a class where students can spur each other on to greater thoughts and their best work.

Laura teaches high school science classes and has enjoyed science since high school. She has a BS degree from BYU and studied Physiology and Developmental Biology. While an undergrad, Laura worked as a teacher’s assistant and taught Physical Science and Anatomy for two and a half years.  Later, in 2012, she decided to homeschool her first child and hasn’t stopped since.  Currently, Laura has eight children, six being homeschooled. In addition to homeschooling her children, she teaches high school and middle school science classes to local homeschool families. Laura loves helping students come to appreciate and master science concepts. 

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.

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.