Staff Shoutouts

SALOME PALMER | Director

Hugh of St. Victor said it best, “Learn everything. Later you will see that nothing is superfluous.” This has proven true in Salome's eclectic educational experience that positions her to direct Gordon's Heritage Program. Her earliest years in the public schools fostered a curiosity for learning and creative approach to problem-solving. In middle school, she transferred to Mars Hill Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio where she experienced firsthand the power of a classical education. It was in designing D.C. leadership seminars, teaching AP Latin, and parsing pages of syllogisms that she cultivated a love for the design and discipline of education. She matriculated at Gordon College as a part of the inaugural Global Honors Cohort and has triple-majored in Music, Comparative Literature, and Biblical Studies.

Growing up in a bicultural family, Salome spent the summers in the heart of Athens, Greece, serving refugees and forming friendships with people from around the globe. She is an enthusiastic advocate for cultivating and creating Kingdom culture wherever she finds herself, whether playing Chopin in the airport of Rome, following in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul in Turkey, or traveling by tuk-tuk in Nepal. Salome will graduate this spring with her MA in Educational Leadership through Gordon College. 

JASON LAWRENZ | Course Instructor & Chaplain

Jason Lawrenz is the chaplain and Rhetoric School bible teacher at Covenant Christian Academy, a classical school that serves northeastern Massachusetts. His vocation as a minister of God's Word is attributable only to God's grace. On a December night during his senior year in high school, Jason went to bed planning to pursue meteorology and a career on television; he awoke the following morning with an unshakeable desire to study the Bible so that he might participate in cultivating the mind of Christ in future generations.

When he is not at Covenant, Jason can be found teaching theology at Gordon College, writing Sunday School curriculums for his local church, coaching his two sons' soccer and baseball teams, and working alongside his wife of 14 years, Robin, to open their home to friends and guests. When asked about their favorite meal of the day, each member of Jason's family would respond the same way: breakfast.

LAUREN COLT | Program Coordinator

Lauren Colt is a work-in-progress of the Master Artist, Jesus Christ. Rooted in His care, she is stepping into her calling: an artist innovator planted at the intersection of art, faith, and politics.

A recent graduate of Gordon College, Lauren majored in Political Science, minored in Innovation & Social Enterprise, and delighted in visual art, choral singing, and theater. Alongside friends in the Global Honors Program at Gordon, she traveled Paul’s missionary journey routes through Corinth and served hot meals with refugees in Brussels. She spent a semester exploring artmaking and the theology of Romans in Orvieto. But between the rainy streets of Tacoma, WA, the castles and vineyards of Vicenza, Italy, the palm trees of San Diego, CA, and, the bustling history of Washington, D.C., the North Shore of Massachusetts feels most like home. 

Lauren loves to research and create order out of chaos. She could spend hours debriefing personality psychology, dystopian novels, live theater, and interactive museums with you. Inspired by her four years with Heritage (and work in the non-profit realm), she hopes to spend her life bringing beauty to broken systems and hurting people.