Meet our Rhetoric & Writing Center Consultants
Abby Price
Focus Areas: (Current) Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Abby is a freshman, undergraduate psychology major in the Torrey Honors College. She hopes to one day publish a poetry chapbook, but also loves linguistics, psychology, fashion, and her two 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: (Current) Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Aliya is a sophomore 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 sophomore 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.
Connor Waldon
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA
Connor is a freshman, 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.
Elliott Krost
Focus Areas: (Current) Undergraduate, APA
Elliott is a senior, undergraduate psychology major with a minor in Business Administration. He has lived in over 10 countries and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. to conduct culturally aware developmental psychology research. His goal is to find a process for writing that works for you and is especially experienced with research-based writing, but he enjoys all forms of writing.
Hannah Copeland
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, UDL
Hannah is a senior, 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.
Kaitlin Laird
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Creative Writing
Kaitlin is a freshman 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, organization, and evidence incorporation and explanation. She enjoys many kinds of writing but is most experienced with humanities papers and argumentative essays.
Katherine Padilla
Focus Areas: (Current) Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, Screenwriting
Katherine is a senior Cinema & Media Arts major. After graduating, she plans to move to Europe for work in the film industry, while pursuing a master's degree in TESOL. Her strengths include storytelling and development, idea organization, phrasing and diction, and the polishing process. She loves collaboration with students of all disciplines, and her passions of culture, story, and language culminate in a particular interest in humanities pieces.
Kristina Long
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, Bilingual (Russian speaker)
Kristina is a junior Bible major with an emphasis in language, and she 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!
Matthew Duff
Focus Areas: (Current) Graduate, APA, Graduate Writing
Matthew recently graduated from Rosemead with a doctoral degree in clinical psychology and is currently pursuing a certificate in spiritual formation at ISF. A Seattle native, he enjoys reading, hiking, playing board games, and doing anything that involves being outside. His writing strengths include organization, clarity, diction, and grammar. He enjoys working with students of all disciplines but is especially familiar with APA style.
Molly Tuffnell
Focus Areas: (Current) 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 junior, undergraduate philosophy student in the Torrey Honors College. He plans to attend seminary after discerning 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 creative writing.
Norah Montanes
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Norah is a sophomore 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 a humanities essay, 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: (Current) Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Screenwriting
Sam is a sophomore 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, Graduate Writing
Thomas is a sophomore, 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 punctuation, sentence structure, and word choice. He loves all genres of writing, but poetry the most—specifically anything from Billy Collins or Mary Oliver.
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.