About Us

Jessica M. is from one or both of the Carolinas. She has been studying Latin since before Google. After seven years of using English to not really learn Latin, she attended the University of Kentucky’s spoken Latin institute where she realized Latin was a language that could be spoken, written, and read. She then went on to build two high school Latin programs using Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana and all of her patience. She graded the AP test, taught AP Latin (along with all the other Latin), and led large NCJCL chapters that went to dozens of events. In her life after classroom teaching, she has edited a lot of grad school applications, worked at a large website for people with disabilities, tutored, moderated professionally, and built some large Latin communities online.

Likes: growing things, fermented things that aren’t fish, fishing, bees, Latin books that are mainly in Latin, ghost and monster stories, fireflies, adagia, blackberries.
Dislikes: humidity, Latin books that are mainly not in Latin, the WordPress editor, temperatures above 80F/27C, people in the Renaissance who said mean things about Erasmus, monoculture lawns.