Tiffany Strong is a graduate of Brigham Young University where she studied elementary education. She also has her Master's in Special Education from Western Governors University. Tiffany is originally from New Jersey and prides herself on being a Jersey Girl. Tiffany loves working at Walden and enjoys making education individualized for each student. She recently joined the special education team serving as the Middle School Coordinator. Tiffany lives in Vineyard with her two adorable sons and husband.
William Strong
Angelica Tatafu
Angelica Tatafu, Pre-K and Kindergarten Assistant Teacher
Email Angelica at angelica.tatafu@waldenschool.us
Michele Taylor
Email Michele at michele.taylor@waldenschool.us
Michele Taylor, K-8 Office Manager
Cali Tesimale
Matt Turner
MATTHEW TURNER is a successful entrepreneur who co-founded Los Angeles based Stylebuy—a global marketing firm that has developed multiple clothing lines. He also founded the Utah based company, Mend Juicery. Matt chooses to make Utah County his home and has served on the Walden Board of Trustees for seven years. His daughter attended Walden High School. We are grateful for Matt’s wise insight, financial oversight, and many contributions to our community.
matt.turner@waldenschool.us
Eva McCullough
EVA MCCULLOUGH is currently a student at Utah Valley University studying event management with a minor in event planning. She hopes to open her own event planning business one day specializing in weddings. She was raised in Provo, Utah and was a student at Walden for 2 years during high school. She has a deep love for reading, spending time with friends and family, baking/cooking and is very passionate about cheese. Eva wants to travel the world someday. Especially to Europe. She has been too Ecuador with Walden as a humanitarian project and Canada since that’s where her dad is from. She is very passionate about the students and wants the best for them. She wants to be someone the students can turn to and wants to be there for support. When she isn’t working, she most likely can be found curled up with a good book and some snacks.
Email Eva at hs.office.manager@waldenschool.us
Eva McCullough, HS Office Manager
Lindsey Touchet
Lindsey Touchet, Elementary School Flex Paraprofessional
Email Lindsey at lindsey.touchet@waldenschool.us
Kevin Twitchell
KEVIN TWITCHELL graduated in 2018 from Brigham Young University with a BA in Communications and a minor in Portuguese. He grew up in Seattle, Washington where he spent as much time as possible exploring the Cascade Mountains. Kevin loves almost anything outdoors and will regularly be spotted in Southern Utah, chasing after slot canyons or Native American ruins. He and his wife have made traveling a priority in their lives, and have spent as much of their free time as possible traveling to locations across Central and South America, Europe, and Asia. Kevin holds a Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate and only recently returned from living as an expat in China where he worked as an English teacher at several international schools. Kevin teaches a variety of classes at Walden, but history is his passion. He loves learning about all aspects of history and cultures and tries to bring this passion for these subjects into his teaching. Kevin believes in an open, communicative classroom where students’ needs come first.
High School Social Studies & Language Arts Teacher
Email Kevin at kevin.twitchell@waldenschool.us
Mary Warner
MARY WARNER is passionate about education! She loves supporting the growth and progress of the students at Walden! She has worked for Provo School District as a family advocate and for Alpine School District as a Registered Behavior Technician Mary has a Bachelor's Degree from BYU in Psychology, a Masters Degree from ASU in Special Education with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis, and she has a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution and Mediation. In her spare time Mary enjoys spending time with her family, knitting, listening to music, and hanging out with the family's pet birds.
Email Mary at mary.warner@waldenschool.us
Mary Warner, High School Special Education Paraprofessional
Raeleigh Webecke
Raeleigh Webecke, Grades 3-4 Assistant Teacher
Email Raeleigh at raeleigh.webecke@waldenschool.us
Hannah West
Diana West
Hillary West
Hillary West, Curriculum Specialist/Academies Coordinator
Email Hillary at hillary.west@waldenschool.us
Grace Wilson
Grace has a level 2 teaching licence and teaches MS science, but she also conducts Walden’s choir. Grace was originally a music education major who studied choral music at BYU and performed in show choir. She has toured with several music groups. Grace has conducted for many years and founded a women’s chorus in 2003 that is still performing. She also teaches private piano lessons.
Sophia Wycherly
Email Sophia at sophia.wycherly@waldenschool.us
Sophia Wycherly, Middle School Paraprofessional
Carl Young
CARL YOUNG stumbled into teaching after completing course work for a Master of Science in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences from the University of Washington. He was driving from Seattle intending to move back to his childhood home of Houston, when he stopped in Provo and due to chance ended up with a long-term substitute position at the Walden School of Liberal Arts. He loved it immediately. Over the next 12 years he taught a wide variety of subjects while developing his teaching skills and falling in love with the wonder and beauty of mathematics. In summer of 2016 Young left Utah and moved to Galveston, TX, where he started a graduate mathematics degree in fall of 2016. That fall he realized he missed teaching, and his calling and love was teaching. He decided to return to it. The next fall of 2017 he started as a mathematics teacher at Quest Early College High School in Humble, TX. Over the next two years he loved his teaching job and completed a Master of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Houston. In 2019 marriage brought him back to Provo, and he knew there was only one school he wanted to teach at, The Walden School of Liberal Arts.
Email Carl at carl.young@waldenschool.us
Carl Young, High School Math & Science Teacher
Stephanie Young
Stephanie Young is beginning her eighth year teaching Language Arts at Walden. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in English Education and immediately looked for a job that was different from the mainstream teaching of the exact same thing, six times a day. After interviewing with Walden, she knew she'd found a place to call home.
Stephanie is a lover of almost any book, both fiction and non-fiction, but mostly enjoys fantasy and science fiction. In her spare time, she also enjoys writing, cooking, baking and playing with her two young children, Paisley and Parker.
Stephanie, her husband, Rhett, Paisley and Parker, moved around the country from 2013-2017. They landed in New York, Texas, Florida, and New Mexico before finally ending up back in Utah. The family is thrilled to be back in Utah so the kids can attend Walden and Stephanie can be back working with Middle School! Stephanie loves the uniqueness of Walden, it's smaller class sizes and the ability it has to offer individualized education to all it's students. She hopes to help all students find a safe place at Walden.
