Meet our Rhetoric & Writing Center Consultants
Aidan Tomasini
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, Chicago/Turabian
Aidan is a sophomore, undergraduate engineering/physics major. He hopes to either transfer to another college as a part of Biola's 3+2 engineering program or graduate from Biola with a degree in applied physics. His strengths include APA format, organization, and grammar. Aidan can work with all students and loves to talk about competitive running, cooking and physics.
Anna Newman
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Anna is a global student in the Biola clinical nursing program. Eventually, she hopes to return overseas to develop sustainable, culturally-conscious healthcare systems. From brainstorming to final polish, Anna understands that the writing process can seem daunting but is eager to engage with students and show how achievable effective writing can be. Her strengths include idea organization, structure development, and conceptual flow. She looks forward to working with students to help them find their voice in their own writing.
Annalea Shea
Focus Areas: Graduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Annalea is a graduate student working to become a high school English teacher. Her strengths include MLA and Turabian formatting, crafting clear theses, organization and grammar. She loves helping writers of every background feel confident in their writing and proud of their hard work. Some of Annalea’s favorite things are embroidery, old books, tea drinking and adventures in the mountains.
Brianna Cornejo
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Brianna is a junior undergraduate Psychology major. After graduating, she hopes to obtain a PhD in sports psychology and later become a sports psychologist. Brianna’s writing strengths include organization, clarity, flow, spelling, strong grammar, and quote integration. She is also a very optimistic person who finds joy in helping others, especially those who need a little extra help in anything related to writing.
Caleb Villa
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, ELL
Caleb is a senior undergraduate business major and a transfer student from the University of Washington. His strengths include forming compelling theses, organization, grammar, clarity, and analytical writing. He also has plenty of experience working with students who are still learning English. In his free time, Caleb loves to analyze music and film through discussion and written reviews.
Carla Smithson
Focus Areas: APA, ELL
Carla graduated last year from Biola's M.A. in TESOL program. She also has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Comparative Literature and Religious studies. She has worked in journalism and business. While she enjoys working with all students, her studies mean that she can be particularly helpful to students for whom English is a second language.
Charlotte Snyder
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Charlotte is a junior undergraduate student majoring in both English and Bible. After college, she hopes to work as a copy editor for a publishing house. Her strengths include academic voice, grammar, and clarity. Charlotte loves to help students strengthen their writing and build confidence in the skills they seek to develop.
Daniel Onoe
Focus Areas: Alumni, APA
Daniel is a graduate student at Rosemead. He is a global student from Brazil and grew up as a missionary kid in Thailand where he hopes to one day return and serve in the mental health field. His strengths in writing include strong organization, grammar, and word choice, with knowledge in both research-based and creative writing papers. He enjoys working with multilingual students and is familiar with the obstacles of learning English as a second language.
Elsa Sisson
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Elsa is a sophomore undergraduate English major with an emphasis in secondary education. She loves helping students communicate through writing and is passionate about giving a voice to their ideas through words.
Emily Finnell
Focus Area: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Emily is an undergraduate English major in Torrey Honors College and has been working with the writing center for over three years. She is pursuing a career in editing for fiction works. Her strengths include idea organization, sentence structure, quote integration and general editing. Emily is happy to work with writers through any step of their paper's journey
Hannah Richards
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL, UDL
Hannah is an undergraduate junior who is majoring in English and minoring in Psychology. She is considering teaching, but she's also interested in counseling, and she's enjoying her studies in both related fields. She loves to help writers organize ideas, develop theses, and improve grammar. In her free time, Hannah likes to rollerblade, bake cookies, and spend time with her family and friends.
Isaac Guarisco
Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian
Isaac is pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy. His undergraduate degree is in Theology & Apologetics. He particularly enjoys working on argumentative essays and creative writing.
Jeremy Wang
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Jeremy is an undergraduate senior English Literature major and a member of the Torrey Honors College. He would love to continue his literary studies after graduation, and hopes to teach at some level in the future. His strengths include written style, revision, and untangling complex ideas. He looks forward to working with anyone looking to write clearly and beautifully.
Joo Young Ok
Focus Areas: Graduate, APA, MLA, ELL
Joo Young is a graduate student at Rosemead School of Psychology. Her writing strengths include organization, grammar, and word choice. Joo Young particularly enjoys working with multilingual students and is well-versed in research and humanities papers, as well as creative writing.
Joshua Labata
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Joshua is a junior undergraduate screenwriter and a member of the Torrey Honors College. From writing video games to screenplays to research papers, he loves writing for anything and, more especially, everyone. He hopes to write stories for a living. His strengths include technical polish, structuring compelling arguments, and bringing out the writer from what’s written. He also hails from Manila, Philippines and is very humbled that you’ve read his bio.
Katherine Padilla
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, ELL
Katherine is an undergraduate freshman studying cinema and media arts and business administration. Professionally, she plans to meld the industries of entertainment production and real estate. She specializes in concept clarity, word choice and sentence structure, especially for global or multilingual students. She is passionate about the art of teaching and the holistic growth of those she works with. Furthermore, her love of international languages inspired her to study Chinese and gain experience as a remote ESL teacher in Taiwan.
Joy Nowak
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL
Joy is a junior English major in the Torrey Honors College. After graduating, she hopes to bring innovative writing programs to rural communities. Her strengths include Turabian and MLA formatting, sentence structure, and integration of evidence. In addition to humanities and research papers, she has experience with creative and professional writing.
Mia Weiss
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA
Mia is a junior, 1st semester Clinical Nursing student. She hopes to become a labor and delivery nurse working specifically with women encountering unplanned and at-risk pregnancies. Mia's writing strengths include organization, clarity of concepts, tone of voice, word choice, and both research and creative writing. She is excited to work with students to establish confidence in their writing and pride in their work.
Micah Weightman
Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, ELL, Screenplay Formatting
Micah is a senior writing for film and television major with a minor in English. In addition to academic writing, he writes poetry, stories, comics and scripts. His strengths include formatting, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. He loves collaboration and is excited to work alongside writers at all writing levels, across all mediums of writing. Micah grew up in New Delhi, India.
Noah Senthil
Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian
Noah is an aspiring pastor and theologian, who is pursuing an M.A. in Classical Theology. He holds a B.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wheaton College, and he previously served as a pastor in Cleveland, OH. He specializes in researched-based writing and argumentative-style essays. He enjoys writing in all fields of study, but he is especially familiar with the humanities.
Shelby Massey
Focus Areas: Graduate, APA
Shelby is from Oklahoma City and is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Rosemead. She is skilled in working with research papers, specifically assisting in word choice, sentence structure, cohesive arguments, and overall organization. In her free time, she loves drinking coffee, writing poetry and playing with her cat, Jasmine.
Tim Myracle
Focus Areas: Graduate, APA, MLA, ELL, UDL
Tim is a second year doctoral student at Rosemead working on his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology. He is most familiar with APA and MLA styles, and enjoys argumentative, and creative writing as well as poetry. Tim is especially passionate about theology, philosophy and psychology, and loves being able to help a fellow student accomplish their assignment goals — while also maintaining the unique voice and perspective within their own writing.
Zach Ismirnioglou
Focus Areas: Graduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
Zach is a graduate student studying Marriage and Family Therapy. His primary focus is on helping students with grammar, spelling and word choice. His favorite topics are Psychology and the Bible.