Our Team Mid-South Gifted Academy
One Team. One Mission.
Together, we create what no one person could create alone: a school where gifted children are deeply known, meaningfully challenged, and inspired to become more fully themselves.
Every member of the MSGA team brings distinctive strengths, deep expertise, creativity, real-world experience, and genuine care. United by one bold mission, we create an educational experience designed to transform lives and prepare gifted learners to become innovators, problem-solvers, purposeful leaders, and world changers.
We lead with love, passionately innovate, seek solutions, play as a team, and take 100% responsibility for the experience we create.
Meet the people who make the MSGA experience possible.
Co-Founder & Head of School
Jessica White
Director of Admissions
Holly LaBarreare
Head of Discovery School
TRISH RATLIFF
Director of World Languages
ANNA IVANOVA
Director of Music & Suzuki Strings
ERIN WEBB
Director of Creative Arts & Design
ADAM HUNT
Director of Robotics
AMBER VANDERSOMMEN
Director of College & Career Advising
ANGELA PHELAN
Upper School Mathematics & Science Specialist
Madison Treadway
Wonder Studio Guide
JALEN LITTLE
Community Care Coordinator, Discovery School
Mickaleen Osborne
Upper School Humanities Specialist
DAVID TWOMBLY
Discovery Studio Lead Guide
jennifer harlan
Exploration Studio Lead Guide
LAURA HAYS
Middle School Instructional Guide
Design Baugh
Business Manager
CHERYL STEMMER
Trailblazer Experience Coordinator
KATHY DEFREECE
Head of School of Innovation & Design
Lynn Warren
Middle School Mathematics & Science Specialist
Tiffany Braby
Director of Gifted Education & Student Success
Sabrina Ballard
Community Care Coordinator, School of Innovation & Design
Stacey Rees
Executive Assistant
Laura Motta