Anna Barber is the founder and Director of Magdalen Classical Academy. She holds a BA in Psychology and English Literature from Biola University and is a graduate and Perpetual Member of the Torrey Honors College. She has fifteen years of experience as a classical education humanities teacher and curriculum developer, and she was herself a classically educated homeschooler. She lives in LA county with her husband and two kids. In founding Magdalen Classical Academy, she sought to envision the ideal academy she would want to eventually send her own children to: a place where they can find joy in learning and discovery, encounter the beauty, truth, and goodness of their Christian faith and heritage, grow as whole souls, and be raised up into mature Christian adulthood surrounded by peers and teachers who think deeply, love what is good, live joyfully, and cultivate virtue and beauty.

FAVORITE TEXT IN THE CURRICULUM (BESIDES THE BIBLE): Athanasius’s On the Incarnation OR C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces