Carly Boerema grew up in the beautiful lakeside town of Traverse City, Michigan, and graduated from Hillsdale College in 2023 with a degree in English and Graphic Design. She currently serves as a Ministry Associate in the Chaplain’s Office and as House Director for Sohn.

Carly is passionate about helping young women cultivate lives of rooted faith, intentional rhythms, and deep presence with God. She loves artistic pursuits, travel, music, and creating spaces of welcome and rest. She finds deep joy in friendship and community, in accompanying students as they deepen their faith, and in continuing to learn what it means to dwell with the Lord in the midst of a full and beautiful life.

Favorite Grocery Store Aisle:
I love browsing through the floral selections at any grocery store. A fresh bunch of flowers (especially hydrangeas or tulips) always brighten my day.

Christy is  a Hillsdale grad, wife of 25+ years, mom of 6 boys, and Director of Academic Services. 

Favorite Book:
Kristin Lavransdatter or Middlemarch or Pride and Prejudice

Bethany Widmer is an educator, writer, speaker, and certified life coach. She has a heart for community and volunteering and has served in various ministries (children, women, marriage) since 1997. Her passion is supporting and encouraging others to pursue their God-given calling. Together with her husband Scott, of 30 years, they have raised three daughters—Samantha, Emma and Sophia.

Favorite College Memory:
Painting the campus rock for my boyfriend (now husband) for Valentine's Day

Emma graduated from Hillsdale in 2024 after studying Art and Biology. You can usually find her working in the Student Activities Office, wandering the world foods aisle, or attempting to make friends with the closest animal. She has a deep passion for nature, strong coffee, kind people, and joyfully gathering over good food and drinks. When not working, you can find her painting, knitting, planning her next travel adventure, or perfecting her baking skills.

Favorite College Memory:
My best friend and I went on an evening winter walk during the first snow all four years!

Emily is a wife, mother of five, and the Associate Vice President of Media Relations & Communications for Hillsdale College. In that role, she has placed interviews, editorials, and commentary pieces in The Wall Street Journal, Fox Opinion, New York Times, Washington Examiner, and other national outlets to highlight the College’s mission and help to secure and defend its independence. Davis has executed media and public events for U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Vice Presidents. Her most significant projects have secured media placements and interviews during times of crisis, issues management, and legal challenges. Her civic work includes serving as county chair for U.S. Senate races, in leadership positions for regional Republican groups, and as a member of the City Council. Prior to her career in higher education, Davis worked in healthcare fundraising and marketing for major Detroit metro markets.

Perfect Weekend Activity:
Visiting art museums, sewing hobbit cloaks, or hosting garage bands for sundry teenagers after basketball games.

Kaitlyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor, holds her National Board Certification, is certified as a trained Trauma Professional and a Certified Counselor Supervisor.

Kaitlyn has been married for 14 years and has four adorably sweet, energetic and adventurous children. In her spare time, you can find her enjoying a hot cup of coffee and reading, but most often romping around with her kids outside or doing something creative with them. 

Favorite College Memory:
At the beginning of my Junior year, I moved in with a group of girls I didn't know at the time. On move in night, which was a very hot August evening, we discovered that our air conditioning was broken - we may have also accidentally frozen the unit turning it down too cold during the day in an attempt to cool our apartment down. Oops! Because it was too hot in our apartment, my housemates and I laid outside and looked at the stars, talking about our lives and introducing ourselves to each other. It was such a precious time of sharing and we made this a regular habit throughout our next two years as housemates. Those conversations were some of my most valuable times in college.

After working for a few years post-graduation as Dr. Arnn’s Executive Assistant, I made the transition to ministry work for a year of volunteer service in England. It was a transformational time of beauty, dependence and simplicity. I enjoyed photography, long walks in the English countryside, and a good book and cuppa! I have now returned to Phoenix, Arizona and work as a broker at Charles Schwab.

Favorite College Memory:
Singing Handel's Messiah with the choir in Christ Chapel!

Andrea & Courtney, sisters and Hillsdale College alumna, are long time Hillsdale residents, Catholic converts, wives, and mothers of a combined 11 children. They work part-time, Courtney as a CPA and Andrea as a fundraising consultant. They have honed their practical wisdom about relationships through years of accompanying each other through good relationship, bad decisions, rocky breakups, sisterly sob fests ultimately ending in happy marriages and lots of laughter. In their free time (lol) they enjoy baking, reading, working out, and going to the beach.

Proudest Accomplishment:
Keeping 11 children alive, fed and mostly clean everyday

Elizabeth attended the University of Dallas, where she earned a BA in Politics in 1996, followed by a Masters of Theological Studies in 2000. She is a homemaker and a former homeschooler and classical school teacher. She is also the Assistant Academic Director of CanaVox, an organization which supports the truth about marriage and sexuality from the perspective of natural law, social science, and personal story. She lives in Hillsdale, where her husband Nathan is a professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College. Together, they have nine wonderful children, an incredible daughter in law, and an adorable granddaughter. Elizabeth has written on marriage and sexuality for the online journal “Public Discourse,” presented talks on these and related topics for CanaVox and Hillsdale College Student Life, and assisted Nathan in developing the popular course “Philosophy of Love, Sex and Marriage” at Hillsdale. Elizabeth is passionate about both her primary work as wife, mother and CEO of Schlueter home culture, and about the marriage mission of CanaVox. She always wants more time to read novels, play music with the Schlueter family band, argue about politics and theology with her husband, and sit with a good cup of coffee and the Wall Street Journal.

Favorite Grocery Store Aisle:
Wherever the dark chocolate or the artisan bread is located!!

Olivia graduated from Hillsdale in 2025 with a degree in Exercise Science and a minor in dance. She is originally from MN but moved back to Hillsdale after graduation where she serves as McIntyres House Director, works in the Career Services Office, and teaches Pilates classes. In her free time, she enjoys going for long walks, baking with her sourdough, and brewing Kombucha.

Dream Job:
Joint Pilates studio/sourdough bakery - take a class and reward yourself with a cinnamon roll!

Hannah works as an Art Therapist at the Ambler Health and Wellness Center on campus. She received her B.A. in Art Therapy from Concordia University Nebraska and her Masters in Art Therapy Counseling from Emporia State University in Kansas. She is married to Dr. Ian Walsh (Assistant Professor of Chemistry). They have three children, Felix (3), Lucia (2), and Agatha (4mo), and a wonderful Bernese Mountain Dog named Cleo. When Hannah’s not corralling 3 kids and a dog, you can find her crocheting, cooking new recipes, or listening to her favorite podcast.

Dream Job:
I have aspirations to be a birth doula

Caroline creates from her home studio in North Carolina, to the sound of her flock of hens, in the in-betweens and margins of nap times. As a representational oil and watercolor painter, her subjects and inspiration come from observation of the ordinary world, driven by a need to slow down and look at things for what they truly are, from a landscape to a stick of butter. Caroline's deepest hope is that her work, like her motherhood, may be a testament to the Lord’s tender mercies in the seemingly mundane and the good gifts to be found even, or especially, in places of suffering.

Favorite College Memory:
Late nights in the painting studio or graphics lab (where my husband slowly wooed me)

Rachel Eller is a Tennessee-born southerner who’s lived in Michigan since arriving at Hillsdale in 2018. She became a NASM-Certified Personal Trainer after a long journey through dance and a pre-med track, a switch to rhetoric and journalism in undergrad, and then a few years in the professional world of public relations. Nothing gets her energized like the many hours she spends in the gym with her classes, clients, and personal workouts with her husband or friends. She delights in the privilege to get to know so many people every day and walk alongside them in their health journeys. In her free time, she loves experimenting in the kitchen, reading, and going on walks with her husband and puppy Leia.

Proudest Accomplishment:
Either my college thesis defense or squatting 230lbs last year.

Rachel is the Director of Student Programs at Hillsdale College. Her two great loves are the outdoors and people. She loves getting to know people and their stories, and would most happily do that while on a long walk.

Favorite Winter Activity:
Snowshoeing in the Adirondacks!!!

Mary works in Career Services at Hillsdale College. In her free time, she enjoys reading, trying new crafts, playing board games, lifting, and rewatching her favorite sitcoms.

Favorite Book:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie; Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Stephanie Gordon is a lifelong Hillsdale native, and is the managing editor of Virtue and Valor: The Official Blog of Hillsdale College. She is married to chiropractor, Dr. Matt Gordon, and has three children – Eloise, Flora, and Jack. When she has a spare moment, she enjoys cooking, floating on Baw Beese Lake, watching Detroit Lions football, hanging out with her two cats - Marvin Harry and Frederick George, and breaking a sweat at the gym.

Dream Job:
NFL sideline reporter!

Nichole received her undergraduate degree from Truman State where she then attended Medical School at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine where she completed her Pediatric Residency at UMDNJ. She is a mom of two and is now a pediatrician in Hillsdale.

Proudest Accomplishment:
Mastering a pull-up!

Kathy graduated from Hillsdale College in 1995 with a B.S. in Biology, and graduated from nursing school in 1996 at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana, then worked 25 years as a nurse in labor and delivery,  nursery, education, and IT.   She has worked as a family nurse practitioner at The Pediatric Place in Hillsdale since graduating from Spring Arbor University in 2021.  She and Dean Pete were married in 1996 and have 8 children and 4 grandchildren.

Perfect Weekend Activity:
Hanging with my grown children around the pool.

Rachel and her husband Ben have called Hillsdale home for the last 8 years. An Iowa native, and Taylor University (Indiana) graduate, Ben and Rachel lived in Boston and Lansing before Ben took the Senior Pastor position at College Baptist Church. Rachel spends most of her time as homemaker and mom to their four kids (Jonah 16, Thatcher 14, Oliver 11, Monroe 7) but also works part time as a photographer and designer (interiors and events) and volunteers at church. She loves to spend time with her family, travel (especially internationally!), and play/watch all sports.

Favorite College Memory:
Too many to count: winning the flag football championship against a rival college, traveling around the country (and world!) with some of my still dearest friends, meeting my good friend's brother (my now husband).