Meet our Rhetoric & Writing Center Consultants
Abby Price
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, Chicago/Turabian
Abigail is a sophomore psychology major and Torrey student. She dreams of one day publishing a poetry chapbook, and also loves linguistics, fashion, and her two orange cats. Her strengths include sentence structure, style, word choice, and rhetorical organization. She is most familiar with humanities essays and creative writing, but is excited to work with all kinds of writers!
Allie Cano
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Allie is an undergraduate English major with a minor in Theatre. She hopes to one day work in a publishing house as an editor. Her strengths include grammar, punctuation, and use of figurative language. Allie loves all sorts of writings but specializes in poetry, creative writings, and humanities-based essays.
Aliya Ayers
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Aliya is a junior undergraduate English major in the Torrey Honors College. She hopes to go into editing and publishing. Her skills include grammar and spelling, organization, argument development, and clarity. She works best with literary analysis and argumentative essays.
Caleb Villa
Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Caleb is a graduate student in Talbot's philosophy program. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from Crowell, so he offers expertise in MLA formatting, business reports, and other technical forms of writing. He loves helping writers use the clearest phrasing, word choices, and grammar possible even while expressing complex ideas. In his free time, he enjoys analyzing film and music through the lens of Christian theology.
Chloe Nguyen
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Chloe is a junior undergraduate student in the Torrey Honors College studying English. She hopes to teach middle/high school, and one day serve as a teacher overseas. Her writing strengths include idea organization, sentence structure, and evidence incorporation. Chloe enjoys meeting with all writers during any stage of the writing process and is excited to come alongside you.
Connor Waldon
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Screenwriting
Connor is a sophomore, undergraduate Game Design & Interactive Media major in the Torrey Honors College. He plans to develop high-quality video games that incorporate Christian themes. He enjoys working with all kinds and stages of writing, and he is particularly adept at grammar, direction, and helping writers communicate complex ideas in simple and creative ways.
Kaitlin Laird
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Creative Writing
Kaitlin is a sophomore English major in the Torrey Honors College. She hopes to become an editor and dreams of writing her own novel. Her strengths include grammar, word choice, revision, and evidence incorporation and explanation. She enjoys many kinds of writing but is most experienced with humanities papers and argumentative essays.
Kristina Long
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, Bilingual (Russian speaker)
Kristina is a senior Bible major with an emphasis in language. She is also a part of the Torrey Honors program, which has given her a thorough knowledge of Turabian. In her spare time, she enjoys writing poetry and short stories. 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!
Molly Tuffnell
Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, Exegetical Writing (Biblical Greek)
Molly is a graduate student working on her Master of Divinity in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. Having completed her B.A. in Bible, Theology, & Biblical Languages, she is most familiar with Chicago/Turabian and theological writing. Molly's strengths include brainstorming and creativity, grammar and syntax, word choice, and highlighting the writer's personal voice. She has experience as an academic tutor and ELL teacher and loves partnering with others in the beautiful and imperfect process of learning in community!
Nathan Hollister-Fisch
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Creative Writing/Poetry
Nathan is a senior, undergraduate philosophy student in the Torrey Honors College. He plans to attend seminary to pursue a call to ordained ministry. 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 Torrey Papers.
Norah Montanes
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, ELL, Screenwriting
Norah is a junior undergraduate English major in the Torrey Honors college. She loves how stories and literature express diverse aspects of the human experience and hopes to share this appreciation with others. Her writing strengths include spelling, organization, brainstorming, and revising. Norah enjoys helping students with humanities essays, any form of creative writing, and screenplays.
Sachi Monwai
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, Chicago/Turabian
Sachi is a freshman, undergraduate Sociology major in the Torrey Honors College. She plans to go into law or education in the future, and she loves linguistics and hopes to learn many languages. Her strengths include outlining, brainstorming, sentence structure, creativity, and organization, and she is comfortable in creative and argumentative writing.
Sam Miller
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Screenwriting, Creative Writing
Sam is a junior English major in the Torrey Honors College with a minor in media studies. He aspires to work in the film industry as a writer/director and has strengths in many mediums of both fiction and non-fiction writing. No matter if you are writing a screenplay, short story, or term paper, Sam would be happy and willing to work alongside you.
Thomas Tripp
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Thomas is a junior, undergraduate English major in the Torrey Honors College. He plans to get either an M.Div. or an MA in Shakespeare, in hopes of teaching either english or theology at the high-school level. His strengths include punctuation, phonetic devices, sentence structure, and word choice. He loves all genres of writing, but poetry the most—specifically anything from Shakespeare, Billy Collins, or Mary Oliver.