Current Tang Fellows

Lionel Amanfu has worked in the math department at Phillips Academy since 2014. In 2022, he began his Tang Fellowship, helping to advance the Feedback First project.

Kiran Bhardwaj has worked at Phillips Academy, Andover since 2017 and is the chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department. She teaches courses including Proof and Persuasion, Views of Human Nature, Feminist Philosophies, and Ethics of Technology. She has been a Tang Fellow since 2019. During the fellowship, Bhardwaj and her collaborators have developed an ethics pedagogy for computer science, other technical classes, and ongoing programming. Her philosophical interests are in ethics (especially moral psychology), practical ethics, Kant, feminism, and logic.

Meghan Clarke joined Phillips Academy in 2022, primarily as an instructor of computer science, after a decade of living abroad in the United Kingdom. She strives to create a classroom environment that is inclusive, collaborative, and engaging, and where all students feel empowered to challenge themselves and make mistakes. In 2023, she joined the ethi{CS} project as a Tang Fellow.

Outside of the classroom, Meghan is the resident house counselor in Bertha Bailey, where she lives with her family. She enjoys practicing yoga, puzzles and games, rooting for Boston sports teams, and spending time with her young daughters.

Ellen Greenberg arrived at Andover in the fall of 1991 and, since then, has helped countless students improve their ability to think, debate, problem solve, analyze, collaborate, and get the best from themselves. Greenberg is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, and often defaults to teaching her favorites: ninth-graders and budding statisticians. This will be her second year teaching in The Workshop. Outside the classroom, Greenberg enjoys hiking and camping, baking for students and friends, biking, and all things soccer.

While never aspiring to an administrative role, Greenberg has served in many different capacities on campus. Greenberg was a house counselor for almost 20 years, has advised boarders and day students, and has coached many great soccer and softball players. Greenberg is currently coaching the boys’ JV3 soccer team and recreational Nordic skiing. She serves as a faculty representative to Andover's Community Standards Conferences, interviews and reads admission folders, and just agreed to serve as the faculty advisor to the baking club. It's a busy, happy life on campus.

After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1998, Scott Hoenig began his career at Andover as a teaching fellow in the math department. In 2022, he began his Tang Fellowship, helping to advance the “Feedback First” project. Hoenig particularly enjoys teaching precalculus and calculus courses, and recently developed a non-calculus-based probability elective. In addition to teaching math, he is the assistant dean of studies for advising, the head coach of the ultimate frisbee program, and the JV swimming coach.

Gene Hughes has taught in the French department at Phillips Academy since 2012. He became a Tang Fellow in 2023, teaching in The Workshop. In 1998, Hughes began his career as a public school teacher and coach in his home state of South Carolina. In 2004, he received a fellowship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he spent 7 years as a graduate student and teaching fellow, specializing in sixteenth-century French literature. After a one-year stint as a visiting assistant professor of French at Allegheny College, Hughes joined the faculty at Andover. He enjoys sports and has coached track, football, and basketball.

Matt Lisa is an instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, a house counselor, the head coach of the JV boys ice hockey team, the assistant coach of the JV baseball team, and a member of the House Counselor Committee. During the 2015–2016 school year, Lisa worked as a Tang Fellow on Place-based Learning, and during the 2018–2019 school year, he worked on two projects:

• Matthew J Lisa Tang-School Year Abroad Collaboration: Hybrid Calculus
• Calculus Continued Development of Online and Hybrid Course Material

He is currently working on the Math Department Review.

Corrie Martin began teaching English at Phillips Academy in 2017 and, in 2019, she joined the Tang Institute as the Senior Fellow in Engaged Pedagogy. In addition, she serves as the CAMD Scholars Program Coordinator. As a literature and writing instructor, she is motivated by Rebecca Solnit's words: “The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides brutality.”

Dr. María Martínez, a passionate educator from Mexico, joined Phillips Academy in 2018 after teaching in various colleges across New England. With a vibrant teaching style and deep knowledge of Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures, she swiftly became an integral part of our academic community. In the 2022-23 academic year, Martínez led the "Climate Breakfast Club" project, focusing on enhancing inclusivity in environmental education. Her belief that students thrive when actively engaged in syllabus creation underscores her commitment to student-centered education. Driven by this ethos, her contributions at Phillips Academy reflect a dedicated effort to foster an inclusive, collaborative, and engaging learning environment.

Emily Raymundo is a writer, teacher, and editor. She was a teaching fellow in English for the 2010–2011 school year at Andover and continued to teach English at Andover Summer Session while receiving her PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her research specialties are Asian American literature and culture, the history of race in the U.S., and theories of embodiment and emotion. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Review of International American Studies, Public Books, and the anthologies "Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia" (NYU) and "Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America" (Temple UP). After teaching at Dartmouth College and the University of Manchester (UK), she rejoined the Andover faculty in 2020 as an instructor in English.

Patrick Rielly has taught English at Phillips Academy since 2012. In 2021, as a Tang Fellow, Rielly started working on the Instructional Coaching project.

Heidi Wall began working at Phillips Academy in 2014, first as a instructor and then as the assistant department chair. In 2018, Wall became a Tang Fellow and launched her project, Promoting Mastery through Portfolio Assessment, which later became Andover's Feedback First approach to teaching math. She loves all puzzles—jigsaw, crossword, tangrams, and anything that involves piecing things together (like math!). The poke bowl is her favorite Paresky meal.

Nick Zufelt focuses his teaching practice on cultivating a workshop feel in his classroom, where each student spends their time passionately honing their work and in doing so, their craft. He experiments often with his courses to discover effective new methods of teaching. In that way, and in his recent adventures learning 日本語 and homesteading, he’s still very much a student. Throughout the years, Nick has worked extensively with the Tang Institute, on both the ethi{CS} project and The Workshop.

Lisa Joseph immigrated from India to the United States to study applied mathematics at Iowa State University. She served at Iowa State University, University of Maine, Harvard Business School, 4R Systems, and Merrimack College, before beginning a career in secondary school education at Phillips Academy Andover in 2006. In 2022, she began her Tang Fellowship, helping to advance the Feedback First project. At Andover, Joseph enjoys engaging intellectually and otherwise with young people.