Meet Your Team
Forrest Travison
John Forrest Travison is from North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for both his undergraduate (B.A. History, B.A. Spanish 2005) and master's degree (M.A. Political Science 2007). He has been in the education industry since graduating, working for Triangle Learning Consultants, which specialized in teaching students with learning disabilities and then for The Princeton Review. During this time he has taught students of all learning backgrounds, aged from 3 to 50, with English levels ranging from native to English as a third language. He has twice been a guest professor at Eerde International School in the Netherlands and a debate judge at several Learning Leaders competitions. In his free time he writes plays, short stories, novels, and likes to play ping pong and travel.
Fun Trivia: Forrest knows the capital, flag and location of every country in the world
Dr. Gil Greggs
Gil Greggs, Director of Academic Symposia and Director of Biblical Studies at the St. David’s School in Raleigh, NC, has a long standing interest in Religion, Politics and Democratic Theory. Gil grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and was educated at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts on a scholarship from the Edwin Gould Foundation. Gil worked for five years as a community organizer for VISTA in housing projects in New Britain, CT before earning a Master of Divinity degree at Yale. Gil was ordained a Deacon in the United Methodist Church in 1985 (currently not under appointment) and then earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Biblical Languages and Literature) from Yale in 1991. He taught at Yale as a A Prize Teaching Fellow before his professorships at the University of Missouri and at Duke University, coming to St. David’s School in 2006. At St. David’s he has organized and taught a course entitled The Shape of the Moral Life: a study in ethics, politics and moral obligation. A key feature of the seminar has been a speaker series devoted to faith and values in the public square. Guests to this showcase seminar of thought in service to the politics of our common life have included Governors Bev Perdue and Pat McCrory, Senator Thom Tillis, US Representatives David Price and George Holding, University Chancellors Randy Woodson (NC State) and Holden Thorp (UNC), along with well-known award winning journalists, authors and editors; NC State Supreme Court justices; CEOs of major NC companies and others. His research and teaching interests are Democratic Theory and Theology, the influence of classical philosophical theory on modern Democratic Republics, and Poverty, Politics and Faith. Gil lectures frequently on these matters for the Institute for Public Trust.
Fun Trivia: Gil remembers the outcome of every Orioles’ baseball game for the last 35 years.
Eugene Fahning
Eugene attended from North Carolina State University majoring in chemical engineering ('08). He has been teaching ever since, including more than ten years with Triangle Learning Consulants.
Eugene teaches both SAT and ACT prep and is an expert instructor focusing on Math I, Math II, Math III, Precalculus, AP Calculus, Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP Physics.
Rami Toubat
Rami Toubat has been an expert instructor in standardized tests since 2009. He received a BA in history from the University of California, Riverside. As lead instructor at Princeton Review, Rami has led hundreds of students into top universities in both the US and China. With over thousands of teaching hours, Rami has an excellent ability to work effectively with students of all backgrounds and consistently drive score improvement in all exams. Rami is also an international SAT and ACT trainer for centers in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Rami has worked with numerous universities and international schools in California and Shanghai in both teaching and speaking capacities.
Fun Trivia: Rami enjoys running and hopes for his 4th marathon completion to take place at the Shanghai International Marathon.