About our host: 

Janice Martinez, M.A., has been a Catholic school teacher for twenty-eight years. Her background includes degrees in French Literature, Elementary Education, Theology and Modern History. She taught elementary, middle and high school throughout the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and she also taught High School Homeschoolers for thirteen years. During her time with homeschoolers, she went “back to school” and learned from her students the wisdom of the Great Books tradition and has never looked back! Currently, she is a graduate student at the University of Dallas as she believes classical learning is the solution to many of the problems facing education today. She has a passion for bringing students of all ages to the Great Conversation that has been going on for thousands of years.  Helping students and adults “shake hands” with the greatest authors of the Western tradition is her most ardent desire.  She is currently the principal of Holy Child, a small liberal arts school in the East Mountains of New Mexico.