National Humanities Center Names 2025–26 Teacher Advisory Council

Twenty Educators Selected to Advise NHC Education Programs

The National Humanities Center (NHC) has announced the selection of twenty talented educators from across the country as members of its 2025–26 Teacher Advisory Council. These teachers, representing schools in twelve states, will work with the Center’s staff in piloting, evaluating, and promoting NHC resources and professional development programs for collegiate and pre-collegiate educators.

The Teacher Advisory Council was formed by the National Humanities Center to aid in its ongoing effort to help teachers become more effective in humanities classrooms. “The Center’s education resource collections, webinars, courses, and institutes support teachers from across the country,” said NHC Vice President for Education Programs Mike Williams, “and our teacher advisors help ensure that our classroom tools and professional development experiences are pedagogically sound and relevant in a wide variety of classroom settings. We are particularly pleased to have council members from an array of learning environments as part of the group. This year’s council includes educators who work with a wide spectrum of students in public and private institutions of all sizes.”

The newly named council members are:

• Ashley Adams, Heritage Hall (Oklahoma City, OK)
• Delisa Alejandre, Katherine Johnson STEM Academy (Los Angeles, CA)
• David Beller, Millbrook Magnet High School (Raleigh, NC)
• Michael Burns, Marist School (Atlanta, GA)
• Jayson Chang, Santa Teresa High School (San Jose, CA)
• Megan Cole, Victor Valley College (Victorville, CA)
• Trisha Daningburg, Campbell-Savona High School (Campbell, NY)
• Briana Delano, Cypress Bay High School (Weston, FL)
• Chasity Gunn, Elgin Community College (Elgin, IL)
• Dorcas Gyekye, Charles E. Jordan High School (Durham, NC)
• Brittany Lane, Southside High School (Chocowinity, NC)
• Hannah May, North Valleys High School (Reno, NV)
• Hannah Moon, Emsley A. Laney High School (Wilmington, NC)
• Cassondra Moore, Seneca Middle School (Seneca Middle School, SC)
• Kendra Radcliff, North Atlanta High School (Atlanta, GA)
• Keisha Rembert, National Louis University (Chicago, IL)
• Trey Smith, Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy (Philadelphia, PA)
• Molly Todd, Montana State University (St. Paul, MN)
• Daniel Watkins, Baylor University (Waco, TX)
• Jamie Wilson, Watauga High School (Boone, NC)

Members of the Teacher Advisory Council will evaluate current online offerings, pilot new materials with their students, and assist the Center’s education team in raising awareness of NHC resources and platforms with other educators.

For over forty years, the National Humanities Center has included teacher professional development as a key part of its mission. In recent years, the Center’s education resources have expanded exponentially, allowing teachers from across the United States to participate in live webinars with leading scholars, freely download thousands of primary source materials ready-made for classroom use, and access digital lessons and other tools that are ideally suited to teaching in twenty-first-century classrooms.