Faculty & Staff Directory

Staff

  • Karen Schindler, Headmistress

    karenschindler@chestertonfrassati.org

    Karen Schindler is a native of the Pacific Northwest and of Traditional Catholicism. She has taught in Catholic Classical academies since the age of 21, initially as a member of a religious congregation where she received the bulk of her experience and training, and brings 20 years of experience in both teaching and parish/youth ministry to the table. After earning a B.A. in philosophy at Cal State Long Beach, she went on to get her Master’s in Theological Studies at the Pontifical Institute of John Paul II in Washington D.C. Second only to her devotion to Theology and Philosophy is her love of sharing great ideas with young minds in a classroom setting. In her free time, Karen loves to read, hike, play her flute, and do some ballroom dancing from time to time.

  • Jennifer Martin, Executive Director

    jennifermartin@chestertonfrassati.org

    Bio coming soon.

  • Lynn Daue, School Operations

    lynndaue@chestertonfrassati.org

    Born in Berlin, Germany, Lynn Daue lived in three countries and eleven states before settling in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children. She brings 16 years of coaching, teaching, and youth ministry experience to Chesterton Frassati, as well as experience in military logistics & operations and nonprofit management. Lynn graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Mathematics, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Classical and Liberal Education from Belmont Abbey College. In her free time, she plays oboe with Les Faux Principiants, an amateur chamber ensemble, and is renovating her 113-year-old house, one layer of wallpaper at a time.

Faculty

  • Melissa Hart, Music

    Melissa Hart is a singer and multi-instrumentalist music teacher from San Francisco, California. She received a Bachelors of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, where she studied songwriting, music production, and vocal performance. Miss Hart had a long journey to make to find her home in the Catholic Church after a secular upbringing. She is now full of the zeal of a fresh convert, and could not imagine a more wonderful way to use her musical training than to sing Our Lord’s praise for the rest of her life. She is a cantor at St. Patrick's Church and a member of Cantores in Ecclesia.

  • Ashley Meyer, Art

    Bio coming soon.

  • Kieran O’Donnell, Humanities

    Born a Roman Catholic in Clifton, Virginia and living most his life in the Pacific Northwest, Mr. Kieran O’Donnell is a lifelong learner. He is very passionate about language studies, having learned and consistently speaking 7 of them. Learning music on the piano, guitar and saxophone as a means to praise the Lord is also a primary passion. He enjoys sports, history, a good book and a bowtie. Mr. O’Donnell wishes for his students to love God and appreciate His beautiful world through their courses more fully at Chesterton Academy.

  • Mary-Catherine "MC" Sewell, Mathematics

    Bio coming soon

  • McLeod Sumner, Humanities & Drama

    Bio coming soon.