Noah Thornburgh
Noah joined Lumen Gentium Academy in the 2021-22 school year as a Humanities teacher. This followed two years working in the tech world, where he was a digital marketer and client associate for a small startup based out of Helsinki, Finland. Noah grew restless behind the laptop and felt God calling him to more fully use his abilities, which he had been ceaselessly honing on readings of and writings on the Western canon in his off time from work. He sees the classical model as, ultimately, the most respectful model of education. He's ecstatic that, with this curriculum, he can treat students as the capable individuals he knows they are.
During those years, he met his wife Meredith, the smartest person he knows and his favorite conversational sparring partner, who was instrumental in his conversion to Catholicism and highly supportive of his career switch into teaching. They live in Princeton, NJ, where she is a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in History.
Before all that, Noah worked as journalist and won awards both for his investigative writing and mentorship as an editor. He takes his experience as a writing coach into the classroom, ready to prove that to be a good writer is to be a good thinker.