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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.

Aliya Van Gelder

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian

Aliya is an undergraduate Political Science major, with a minor in Business Administration. She hopes to either attend law school upon graduation or otherwise go right into policy work. Her strengths include style, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Aliya is happy to work with anyone but loves writing argumentatively and enjoys crafting strong arguments.

Aly Kilduff

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, ELL

Aly is a senior, undergraduate English major with a focus in Secondary Education. She hopes to first become a middle school or high school English teacher in the South Bay, with future dreams of becoming a professor at El Camino College. She also loves poetry, hoping to publish some of her own on the side. Her strengths include thesis statements, organization, revision and brainstorming both papers and lesson plan ideas.

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.

Calissa Wong

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Screenwriting

Calissa is an undergraduate senior in the Writing for Film & Television program with a minor in Communication Studies. She in pursuit of her childhood dream job to be a writer—whether in entertainment, a classroom, or through hobbies like journaling and songwriting. Her favorite part of the writing process is brainstorming and outlining. She is excited to serve her student body by getting to know them and how their brains work!

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.

David Hancock

Focus Areas: Graduate, Chicago/Turabian, Graduate Writing

David is pursuing his M.A. in philosophy at Talbot and applying for Ph.D. philosophy programs for after graduation. As a former 6th grade English teacher, David loves the fundamentals of writing: sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, and rhetorical devices. While argumentative essays are his specialty, this nerd also loves musical theater, Dungeons & Dragons, and Marvel movies, so creatives are welcome!

Emie Pelk

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Screenwriting

Emie is a current senior studying screenwriting through the Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts. She is also pursuing a minor in art with an interest in animation. She loves stories from all genres, with a particular heart for writing strong dialogue and memorable characters. While she specializes in creative storytelling, Emie is confident in fine tuning grammar, organization and overall flow in other forms of writing as well.

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.

MacKenzie Mora

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian

MacKenzie is a sophomore, undergraduate student in the Torrey Honors College studying Theology and Philosophy. He aspires to enter a postgraduate program for theology or philosophy, and eventually work as a professor in a classical program or humanities department. His experience mainly lies in academic writing, but he is excited to assist with all sorts of writing projects. Some of his strengths include outlining, grammar, and word selection.

Micah Weightman

Focus Areas: Graduate, APA, MLA, Screenwriting

Micah is pursuing his master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, also having studied screenwriting and English at 91ÖÆƬ³§ as an undergraduate. He hopes to one day work as a therapist in Christian settings. His strengths include brainstorming, structure, syntax, punctuation, and helping writers find their own personal voice. Micah loves working on writing projects at any stage of development.

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.

Norah Packiam

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian

Norah is a sophomore, English major, and member of the Torrey Honors College. Norah dreams of teaching high school English one day, where she hopes to instill passion, truth, and humility into her students. Norah has a love for literature; some of her favorite authors include Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L’Engle. Her strengths in writing are structure, grammar, spelling, formatting, and ensuring that the topic of focus or argument is clear. Clarity is king! Norah delights in getting to know her peers in any context, but especially over a piece of writing.

Rebecca Curtis

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Pechenik

Rebecca is a junior, undergraduate English major with a concentration in Secondary Instruction. She is also enrolled in the Torrey Honors College. Rebecca hopes to one day become an English teacher. Her writing strengths include: word choice, punctuation, organization, spelling, as well as proper citation skills in both academic and creative writing. She loves working with all students, and is familiar with the writing style of humanities and Torrey students.

Reuben Johnson

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, Chicago/Turabian

Reuben is a senior in the Torrey Honors College, majoring in Philosophy. He plans to continue studying philosophy and theology at the graduate level, and would like to teach humanities. His writing strengths include clarity, logical consistency, organization and sentence structure. He is especially eager to work with students on argumentative papers.

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.

Tyler Jones

Focus Areas: Undergraduate, APA, Chicago/Turabian

Tyler is a super-senior undergraduate Health Sciences major in Torrey Honors. He is in the middle of pivoting from a clinical biology career path to an academic one, and is applying to graduate studies in theology. His strengths include source synthesis, primary textual analysis, transitions, and argumentative flow. Though most comfortable with Turabian humanities papers, he earned his stripes through years in STEM, and can absolutely help students struggling through a science paper.