Meet our Rhetoric & Writing Center Consultants
Nathan Balos
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Screenwriting
Nathan Balos is a Senior in the Cinema and Media Arts program at Biola University. He hopes to write and direct his own feature films one day. He believes that all writing contains a story and hopes to help his peers bring out the story in all of their projects. His strengths include screenwriting, macro-level revisions and structure.
Aly Tierney
Focus Areas: (Current) Graduate, APA, Graduate Writing
Aly is a graduate student studying clinical psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology. She hopes to become a therapist after graduating. She enjoys hammocking, going to the beach, drinking coffee and watching football. Her strengths include strong grammar, word choice, creativity and research based writing. She loves working with all students, but is especially familiar with psychology and English writing styles.
Madison Fukuda
Focus Areas: MLA, ELL
Madison is an undergraduate senior studying English education. She hopes to teach English to middle and high schoolers after graduation. She loves collaborating with students of all disciplines, but especially enjoys working with students from other majors to help them grow as writers and learn more about other disciplines. Her strengths lie in essay planning, essay organization, sentence structure and literary analysis.
Caden Booth
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, Chicago/Turabian, Graduate Writing
Caden is a senior, undergraduate Philosophy major in the Torrey Honors College. He hopes to attend graduate school to study theology, in the hopes of one day becoming a professor. His writing strengths include organization, thesis development, grammar and logical flow. He loves working with all students, but is especially familiar with the writing style of argumentative papers, especially within the subject of philosophy or theology.
Hannah Copeland
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, UDL
Hannah is a junior, undergraduate English major in the Torrey Honors College. She hopes to become a middle school English teacher and write novels on the side. Her strengths include grammar, word choice, organization and explanation of evidence. She is most familiar with APA, MLA and Turabian formatting.
Hannah Fodera
Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Hannah is a graduate student pursuing an M.A. in both Old and New Testament. She also studied English Writing for one of her undergraduate degrees. To put it plainly — Hannah loves words. Whether it's poetry, prose, or public speaking, she is committed to becoming a better communicator for the rest of her life. Her strengths include revision, clarity and strengthening flows of argument.
Isaac Guarisco
Focus Areas: Chicago/Turabian
After completing his M.A. Philosophy, Isaac taught some Intro to Philosophy courses at Biola. Now he just sits in coffee shops and reads theology, philosophy and as much classic literature as he can manage. As a consultant, Isaac excels at helping writers clarify their arguments while retaining the author’s style and voice. He’s pretty good at syntax and semantics too.
Alisha Mark
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Alisha is a sophomore, undergraduate Art major in the Torrey Honors College. In the future, she hopes to work as a concept artist in the film or gaming industry. Her strengths include word choice, flow of ideas, sentence structure and evidence integration. She loves reading, writing and helping others find joy in reading and writing.
Janae Miller
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Janae is a senior undergrad studying English and education so she can one day explore life and literature with middle schoolers. She loves the challenge of tackling theses, ideas and organization, as well as working with the clarity and beauty of a piece through vocabulary and sentence structure. She loves humanities essays and creative writing (and has spent hours with the Kliestian essay), but she welcomes working with writers from any discipline.
Nathan Hollister-Fisch
Focus Areas: MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Creative Writing/Poetry
Nathan is a sophomore, undergraduate philosophy student in Torrey Honors College. He plans to attend graduate school to study theology and aspires to be either a classical school teacher or a minister. His writing strengths include organization, word choice and brainstorming. He is adept at writing in a variety of styles, but has the most experience in the humanities, especially creative writing.
Chloe Nguyen
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA
Chloe is a freshman undergraduate student in the Torrey Honors College studying English. She hopes to be a teacher one day, and serve in children's ministry. Her writing strengths include idea organization, sentence structure, clarity and evidence incorporation. Chloe enjoys all aspects of writing, but is most familiar with humanities papers and argumentative essays.
Esther Park
Focus Areas: Graduate, APA
Esther is a graduate student in the M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy program. She is currently studying to be a licensed therapist. Her strengths include grammar/spelling, thesis development and looking at the bigger picture of one's writing. Her writing hobbies are creative short fiction and poetry.
Aiden Sherer
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Screenwriting
Aiden is a junior undergrad in Biola's CMA program studying writing and production. He's a former member of Biola's cross-country team and continues to enjoy running as well as anything outdoors from kayaking to camping. Be sure to ask him about his favorite movie!
Kristina Long
Focus Areas: MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, Bilingual (Russian speaker)
Kristina is a sophomore Bible major, with an emphasis in language, and is also a part of the Torrey Honors program. She hopes to one day go on to seminary for graduate school. In her spare time, she enjoys composing music and writing poetry. Her strengths include fine tuning grammar, checking spelling and focusing on creative writing. She loves working with all students and is more than willing to help with a theology paper.
Mary Anne Swart
Focus Areas: Graduate, APA
Mary Anne is pursuing her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, with dreams to be a therapist for children. Due to her undergrad in psychology, she is especially familiar with APA and research-style writing. However, her favorite part of working at the RWC is when she gets to take part in the brainstorming stage, as it provides the most opportunities for creativity, dialogue, and a deeper understanding of the student behind the writing!
Thomas Tripp
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA
Thomas is a freshman, undergraduate English major in the Torrey Honors College. He plans to attend the classical theology graduate program at Biola, in hopes of teaching either English or theology at the high-school level. His strengths include sentence structure, punctuation and word choice. He is passionate about all forms of writing, but he loves studying the prose of classical British and American fiction.
Madison Turner
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Screenwriting, ELL,
Graduate Writing
Madison is a senior studying Writing for Film and Television, and she is in Torrey Honors College. Her strengths include brainstorming, organizing, Turabian and MLA style, and helping writers bring out their individual voices.
Zach Buus
Focus Areas: (Current) Graduate, Chicago/Turabian
Zach is a graduate student studying philosophy at Talbot with a B.A. in Classical Liberal Arts from Patrick Henry College. He loves philosophy, literature, film and metal music. His writing strengths include grammar, sentence structure, argumentation, and precision and clarity of language. He is happy to help with papers of all kinds, but has the most experience writing in humanities disciplines.