Past Fellows

José Peralta began teaching in the biology department at Phillips Academy in 2018. As a Tang Fellow, he worked on Redesigning BIO100: Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Model for Inquiry-Focused Learning.

Tedd Parker has worked at Phillips Academy since 2012. In 2021, as a Tang Fellow, he began working on Exploring Opportunity: Economics, Big Data, and Social Inequality.

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.

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.