Board of Directors

Daniel Gibbons is the current SJI Board President and an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in English at The Catholic University of America. He earned a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Dallas, and both an MA and PhD at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Over the course of nearly twenty years as a teacher, Dr. Gibbons has tutored middle-school and high-school students; has trained students in technical and accountancy writing; and has taught rhetoric, writing, and literature to a diverse body of students at a community college and three different universities. He helped to author Catholic University’s new undergraduate core curriculum and is a member of the Secondary Education Council, which helps to oversee the training of high school teachers at the university. Dr. Gibbons helped to start the Montessori program at St. Jerome Academy and serves on the curriculum committee for SJI.

Edward Trudeau has taught middle school, high school, and college undergraduates mathematics, logic, and philosophy. He was a member of the original St. Jerome Academy curriculum committee and currently serves as vice chair of the SJI Board. He is Director of Planning and Institutional Research at Catholic University.

Andrew is the president of the St. Jerome Institute in Washington, DC. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute with a dissertation focused on the philosophy of education and childhood in the thought of the German Thomist, Ferdinand Ulrich. He has served for nearly two decades as a teacher and leader in classical schools. He was the Head of School for The Atonement Academy in San Antonio and later joined the team for Great Hearts Texas, where he was the founding Headmaster of Great Hearts Northern Oaks. He has published articles and translations in both the Humanum Journal and Communio and is preparing a translation of Ferdinand Ulrich’s book on childhood and education, Der Mensch als Anfang (Man as the Beginning), for publication by Humanum Press in 2023.

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After graduating from Christendom College with a degree in philosophy, John Archer worked at St. Gregory’s Academy, a Catholic liberal arts high school for boys in eastern Pennsylvania. He later pursued graduate studies in English at the Catholic University of America, where he taught freshman writing and humanities courses and served as the Assistant Director of the University Writing Program. Currently, Mr. Archer teaches 8th grade at St. Jerome Academy in Hyattsville. He serves as SJI’s Treasurer to the Board.

Bart Pollock earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame in 1976. He recently retired after a career in journalism and communications, having worked for 28 years at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY, as a reporter, editor, and managing editor. He was the director of web content at The Catholic University of America and recently led a team that created a new website for the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). Bart and his wife Mary Pat have six children and 24 grandchildren, two of whom are graduates of St. Jerome Institute, and three who are current SJI students. Bart is a Dominican tertiary and president of the Blessed Fra Angelico chapter of the Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic.

Don Bunuan earned a BA from Georgetown University and received his Masters in Educational Policy and Leadership from the University of Maryland–College Park. He began his career as a high school teacher, having taught at catholic schools for over a decade. He gained experience teaching many different subjects, all grade levels, and abilities; from honors-level students to special needs students. He then went on to work at the United States Department of Education in the office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. There he was responsible for program and financial management for grant recipients as well as the management of all the contracts funded through the Rehabilitation Services Administration. He now practices real estate and is ranked in the top five percent of realtors nation-wide. He and his wife have 5 children.

Jeanne Heffernan Schindler is a Fellow of the John Paul II Institute. Until 2013 she served as an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and an affiliate professor in the School of Law at Villanova University.  She received her PhD in government from the University of Notre Dame in 2000 and taught at Pepperdine University for several years before joining the Villanova faculty in 2004.  Dr. Schindler's intellectual interests are interdisciplinary, integrating philosophical and theological concerns with her primary training in political science.  She has lectured and published in a variety of areas, including Catholic social thought, democratic theory, virtue ethics, and faith and learning.  She edited a volume on Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2008) and co-edited with her husband, D.C. Schindler, a collection of essays by the German philosopher Robert Spaemann (Oxford University Press, 2015). Since 2013 Dr. Schindler has been a homemaker and homeschooling mother of three children, each of whom either now attend or have graduated from the St. Jerome Institute.

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Dr. Storey has a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and a BA from the University Professors Program at Boston University. Her work concentrates on liberal education, civic thought, and the relationship between the university and society. Dr. Storey is the coauthor, with her husband, Benjamin Storey, of Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton University Press, 2021). Together, the Storeys are working on a book titled The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life. Dr. Storey’s work has been published in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Affairs, Humanities, the Boston Globe, National Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, American Purpose, Society, the New Atlantis, City Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, and First Things.

Lesley Rice received her doctorate in theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute with a dissertation on contemporary Catholic thought concerning biotechnology and the beginning of life. Her research concerns the Christian anthropology, history and philosophy of biology, and the cultural and anthropological significance of biotechnologies. Her work has been published in Communio: International Catholic Review, Anthropotes: Rivista di Studi sulla Persona e la Famiglia, and Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture & Science.

Nicholas J. Healy is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Culture at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. He received his doctorate from Oxford University, with a dissertation on the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. He is an editor of the North American edition of Communio: International Catholic Review and a founding member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is the author of The Eschatology of Hans Urs von Balthasar: Being as Communion and, together with David Schindler, Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: The Declaration on Religious Freedom. Recent articles have addressed the nature and sacramentality of marriage, the question of Christian philosophy, and the theological anthropology of Henri de Lubac and Thomas Aquinas.

Taylor Myers is a Research Fellow at Boyden Gray PLLC and a parent to children at St. Jerome Academy. He earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a JD from Georgetown Law. Dr. Myers previously worked as a Lecturer at the University of Maryland teaching thermodynamics and engineering design to undergraduates. He and his wife have 5 children.