Past Fellows

Marisela Ramos began her career at Phillips Academy in 2014 as an instructor in History and Social Science. In 2020, she began serving as department chair and teaching U.S. and world history courses. Ramos also teaches Andover's introductory course in gender studies and has served as faculty advisor and mentor of CAMD and Brace student scholars, student-led Martin Luther King Jr. Day workshops, and the student board of BOSS Feminist Magazine. As a Tang Fellow from 2018 to 2020, she worked on The Rainbow at PA. Her other roles on campus have included serving as the inaugural LGBTQ+ adult coordinator, instructor for the Summer Gender Institute, house counselor, and Community Conduct Council coordinator. She is a published author whose writing has appeared in Andover Magazine and the Phillipian, as well as in scholarly journals.

Garrett Richie is an English instructor, three-season distance running coach, and house counselor at Phillips Academy. He is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at Lesley University.

Miriam Villanueva is a history instructor at Phillips Academy, teaching Latin American, United States, world, and borderlands history. Her current research concerns Latin American dictatorship during the Cold War, particularly the Panamanian military regime’s cultural policy to nationalize the Panama Canal during the height of US-USSR conflict. Her work prioritizes an interdisciplinary approach that relies on cultural theory and archival studies to highlight her previous experience working in special collections. At Phillips Academy, she has been developing a holistic approach to working with students, shaping their experience in and outside the classroom. In 2020, as a Tang Fellow, she worked on Exploring Opportunity: Economics, Big Data, and Social Inequality.