Faculty & Staff

Sarah Alba
Middle School Teacher
Sarah earned her B.A. in Spanish with an emphasis in Linguistics and previously taught grammar at Legacy Christian Academy and Latin at Imago Dei Classical School. She and her husband Andrew were married in 2019.
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Caitlin Altenhofel
4th-5th Grade Teacher
Caitlin has been classically homeschooling for the past 10 years and was our most dedicated substitute teacher in Providence’s founding year. She and her husband Jared have been married since 2005 and they have four children.
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Genevive Robison
2nd-3rd Grade Teacher
Genevive served as the children’s ministry director at Sovereign Grace Church for approximately 3 years until becoming a stay-at-home mom in 2019. Genevive graduated from San Diego State University with honors and holds a M.A in Psychology with an emphasis in pediatric behavioral neuroscience. She has been married to her husband, Nick, since 2014 and they have three children.
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Meagan Heppner
1st Grade Teacher
Born and raised in Bakersfield, Meagan was homeschooled from K-12 along with her nine siblings. She served as a childcare volunteer for one year at Radius International, and is currently assistant to the director of children’s ministry at Sovereign Grace Church. She graduated from CSUB with her B.A. in Business Administration in the Summer of 2022.
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Teresa Vegas
TK – Kindergarten Teacher
Teresa worked as an elementary teacher from 1994-2000 and went back to the classroom as a full-time reading specialist from 2015-2020. She also serves as a Sunday school teacher at Sovereign Grace Church and spent some of her years as a stay-at-home mom homeschooling her two children. She has been married to her husband, Chad, since 1994.
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Kristie Mendoza
TK – Kindergarten Teacher’s Aide
Kristie has been a stay-at-home mom for 10 years with many years of experience as a volunteer in children’s ministry. She and her husband Manuel have been married since 1994 and have two children.
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Lydia Stroud
Interim Headmaster
Lydia graduated from the Great Books program, the Torrey Honors College, at Biola University in 2010 and went on to complete her M.S in Chemistry at UC Riverside. She has 10 years of higher education teaching experience as a tutor, teaching assistant, and adjunct professor of chemistry and also spent three years working for McGraw-Hill Education as a support representative for the ALEKS program. Lydia met her husband, Brett, while they were both undergraduate students at Biola and they have been married since 2015.
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