Jacey Schram is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and co-founder of Wild Root Learning. After navigating her own chronic health challenges from a young age, Jacey spent over a decade searching for answers—moving beyond quick fixes to understand the root causes of her symptoms. This journey led her to specialize in nutrition and gut health and ultimately shaped her passion for preventative, education-based wellness. Driven by a desire to help the next generation avoid the struggles she experienced, Jacey co-created Wild Root Learning to equip children and teens with practical knowledge about how their bodies work and how nutrition and health habits support learning, confidence, and lifelong well-being.

Isaac Barrett is President of Netacent Inc. and a seasoned Software & Data Architect with over 15 years of experience modernizing critical government systems. A Top-Ten Scholar at Boise State University and MBA graduate of Northwest Nazarene University, he was recognized as an Accomplished Under 40 by the Idaho Business Review. He served as lead architect for Idaho’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) modernization, architected and guided the implementation of Netacent’s cloud-based Unemployment Insurance system in Alabama, and is now leading its deployment in Hawaii. With deep expertise in cloud architecture, data strategy, and workforce modernization, Mr. Barrett is helping states optimize and transform their benefits, tax, appeals, adjudication, and legacy systems nationwide.

Wynette is the mother of 3 girls (all three grown). In an effort to meet their varied, and often challenging educational needs (ranging from dyslexia to autism), the Mellen’s utilized homeschool, public school, private school, charter school, and online school. Looking back, many of their educational choices were driven by a lack of confidence and understanding. In an effort to help her girls, Wynette earned her teaching degree with an emphasis on Special Education. She spent her paraprofessional days working for the Kuna and West Ada school districts. While Wynette has taken her love for children with special needs to Fremont Middle School where she currently works, her heart remains firmly planted in the homeschool world and looks forward to sharing her experience and knowledge with the homeschool families of special needs children.

Annie Grey is a Christ follower, wife, and mom to two homeschool graduates. She recently received the joyful title of “GG” with the birth of her first grandson.

When she isn’t serving homeschool families in Idaho as an Area Representative for Classical Conversations, you’ll likely find Annie outside enjoying God’s creation, working on the family farmstead, teaching group fitness classes, diving into thought-provoking conversations with her young adult children, or curled up with a good book.

Having watched her own “birdies” leave the nest, Annie is especially grateful in this season that God continues to use her to encourage and support families who desire to homeschool well through high school.

Melissa Nash is a homeschooling Mama who has successfully graduated one kiddo with one to go. She has been married to her High School sweetheart, Kory, for 26 years. When she’s not homeschooling, Melissa can be found teaching her private viola/violin students and playing with her string quartet.

Audra Talley was homeschooled during the early days of the modern homeschool movement and had a front-row seat to the battle for homeschool freedom in her home state of Idaho. After completing her homeschool coursework, she attended the College of Idaho, where she graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and History.

Audra and her husband, Bruce, live in southern Idaho, where she homeschools the younger three of their four children (their oldest is grown). She is actively involved in her local community through a homeschool co-op, her church’s homeschool ministry, and Homeschool Idaho, where she and Bruce serve on the board of this statewide organization dedicated to inspiring, promoting, and preserving the homeschool way of life.

Audra is a regular contributor to Homeschool Idaho’s quarterly magazine. For years she has encouraged and mentored homeschool families one-on-one, and she is now beginning the journey of sharing her experience and perspective with a broader audience.