Sarah Betensky currently attends Brown University. She has been studying Latin since sixth grade and added ancient Greek in high school. She is a Calder Classics Teaching Fellow and a founding member of the Calder Classics Junior Advisory Board.  Sarah has participated in two Calder Classics programs: a Latin literature course in Essex, Massachusetts called “Roman Voices,” and the online “Journeys to the Underworld” course. She also worked as an intern for Calder Classics, discovering and sharing the ways in which classical antiquity is still celebrated in our society. Sarah spent her junior summer working on an ancient Roman archaeological excavation in Spain. Her senior year of high school she completed an independent research project on the role of Classics in US history. Sarah shared the successful outcome of her independent study project with our students in a course she designed for Calder Classics in 2023. She loves to help students seek ways to create their own independent study projects. Outside of Classics, Sarah trains in, and teaches, taekwondo.