Mandi Gerth currently serves as the Administrative Director of the Cowan Center at the University of Dallas. Previously, she served alongside a dedicated team of classical educators at a collaborative model school in Fort Worth, Texas, where she taught upper school humanities. She holds a master of humanities degree from the University of Dallas with a concentration in classical education. Her work has appeared in The Classical Difference magazine and on the CiRCE Institute and Theopolis blogs. She and her husband have labored for over twenty years to build a family culture for their five children that values books, baseball, museums, home-cooked meals, and conversation about ideas.