Our Team

  • Presv. Jennifer Souza

    Jennifer Souza is a classical teacher, consultant, and artist. Jennifer is a CiRCE certified Classical Teacher and has taught humanities, logic, rhetoric, and the fine arts since 2009. She is the former director of Paideia Academics, an organization devoted to training new classical educators how to teach the classical liberal arts.

    Jennifer was a contributing author for The Lost Tools of Writing Level 1, published by The CiRCE Institute, and former co-host of The Classical Homeschool Podcast. Jennifer has spoken at dozens of events across the nation on classical education and teaching. Currently, Jennifer is writing her first book about classical teacher development. Her research interests include classical rhetoric, classical pedagogy, world mythology, the intersection between education and healing, and how we find belonging on this side of eternity.

    She enjoys spoken word poetry, trying her hand at a challenging recipe, collecting more books than she’ll ever read, and sauntering about in nature. Jennifer’s published works and podcast appearances can be seen across the web.

    Jennifer lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband Fr. John Souza, where he serves a the Assistant Priest at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral.