Meet Our Team:
Kasi Ann Peters, M.Ed, Board President / Director of Homeschool Support & Events
“GHF brings together both of my passions; homeschooling and supporting families of gifted children! As a parent group facilitator, I’ve always known that gifted families need a unique community and as a mom of 2 gifted children, who is also homeschooling, it’s clear that being extra outside the box requires an even more unique community. GHF is that community and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to help create our support system!”
Kasi Peters is a passionate advocate for gifted and twice-exceptional children and their families. She has served on the boards of many gifted organizations including SENG and Profoundly Gifted Retreat. Kasi holds a certificate in Gifted and Talented Education and is a graduate student at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity. With an eye for identifying, and a heart for fulfilling a need, Kasi is co-founder of Westside of Los Angeles Gifted, and Square Pegs, supporting gifted families through parent groups and individual consulting around alternative educational opportunities. She has been homeschooling her two gifted children since 2012. Kasi is also a board-certified music therapist primarily working with children who have special needs.
Marna Walthall Wohlfeld, MA, MBA, Vice President / Director of GHF Press
“GHF is a resource and support center for parents of gifted and 2e students who seek to provide home education of many different forms.”
Marna Walthall Wohlfeld is a mom of four. She has deschooled, unschooled, and homeschooled various kids at various stages. Passionate about advocating for twice-exceptional students, she is currently studying in the doctoral program at Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education. Previously Marna worked in the non-profit sector.
Katherine Turner, Board Secretary / Director of Marketing
“GHF’s beautiful collective of experts (not know-it-alls), veteran parents and educators (not reductive rule-dispensers) and fellow self-doubting noobs (most of whom discover they’re gifted themselves) held me steady and equipped me with the confidence, knowledge and resources to do what’s best at different stages of development for each of my four gifted (three, 2e) kids, both educationally and emotionally – how does someone adequately say ‘thank you’ for that?! What started out as a way to manifest my gratitude has evolved into a never-ending cycle of getting more sustenance from this community than I can ever repay, so I happily surrender and am content with doing what I can.”
Katherine Turner is a public relations, social media and writing professional with a soft spot for impossibly earnest educational non-profits.
Ricardo Mejia, Board Treasurer
“GHF is a caring group of individuals helping families navigate the educational road less traveled.”
Ricardo Mejia is VP of Operations at a software company, and the 2e father in a happy 2e home. When not soothing every frayed nerve in his vicinity from his bottomless well of genuine sympathetic positivity and calm insights, he can be found sharing his time in the GHF Virtual Co-Op, and welcoming and chatting with members in the Forum and Facebook group. Ric enjoys lifelong learning, theatre and time spent with family and friends.
Carol Malueg, MA, GCT 2e, Director of Community Programming & Events
“I found GHF, or GHF found me, when my youngest was midway through her senior year of high school. For both of our kids we had employed strategies like acceleration, online learning, partial homeschool, and early college to help them maintain their joy in learning. I am a strong advocate for helping gifted learners find their best educational fit within their unique constraints, which include time, location, access, and know-how. GHF opens many doors for families who are interested in, or actively pursuing, a non-traditional path to K-12 education for their gifted learners. I wish I’d found GHF sooner, but I am so very glad to now be a part of the work GHF does to support families on this amazing journey.”
Carol Malueg, M.A. GCT, 2e, is the mother of 2 gifted young adults, works in the field of gifted education and support, and volunteers with several state and national organizations that support gifted kids and their families. Carol sits on the Board of Directors for the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF) and the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented (MCGT). She received the MCGT Friend of the Gifted award in 2020. Carol has trained hundreds of Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Model Parent Group Facilitators worldwide and was awarded the SENG Presidential Award for Distinguished Service in 2021. She has worked on three Javits Grant research projects focused on improving identification of and services for gifted at-risk students. Carol currently works as a Learning Coach, Educational Consultant, and Caregiver Conversations Facilitator. Her business, Gifted Roads LLC, addresses the gifted and multi-exceptional experience across the lifespan. Her first book is, The Road to Positive Advocacy for Your Gifted Child, published June, 2025 by Prufrock Press.
Dr. Erinn Fears Floyd, Director of Community Outreach & DEI
“GHF means a safe, supportive space for allies and families to celebrate the gifts and talents of gifted students from all backgrounds and talent levels without question while the world around them fights about who gets to be gifted. Despite others’ opinions of their ‘gifts’ or challenges and barriers faced in traditional educational spaces, GHF welcomes students with open arms to just ‘be’ and create with a profound focus on making each tomorrow better than each today.”
Erinn Fears Floyd is a Gifted Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Scholar who serves as Director of Training and Partnership Development for The Consortium for Inclusion of Underrepresented Racial Groups in Gifted Education (I-URGGE) and Lecturer at Texas State University-San Marcos. Former Director of Professional Learning for the National Association for Gifted Children and State Director of Gifted Education for the Alabama Department of Education, Dr. Floyd has served over 30 years as classroom teacher, school administrator, and district coordinator. Dr. Floyd is an inaugural recipient of the NAGC Dr. Mary Frasier Teacher Scholarship for Diverse Talent Development and the 2021 Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution. In 2022, Dr. Floyd received the Dr. Alexinia Baldwin Gifted & __________ Award. She has published several articles and book chapters and is founder of Equity and Excellence in Education, LLC, which provides professional learning, digital badging, and academic support for educators, parents, and students. She and her husband are the proud parents of two gifted children.
Lisa Jobe, JD, Director of Virtual Co-Op
”GHF’s mission, to empower every gifted family to make strategic, proactive, and intentional educational choices, mirrors my own mission to share, support, and grow together in this community. As a veteran homeschool parent of two profoundly gifted learners who, like so many, were unable to find the best educational path in traditional classrooms, I understand the desperate need our families have for support and community. GHF fulfills these important needs for gifted/2e families in many different ways. GHF’s welcoming and inclusive access for all gifted/2e families is also near to my heart as together we strive to expand access for gifted support.”
Lisa Jobe is an educational consultant specializing in providing homeschool support for profoundly gifted learners and their families, as co-founder of Sequoia Gifted and Creative, LLC. Lisa pivoted from her corporate law career to homeschool her profoundly gifted sons and has now devoted 15 years to educating and serving as an advocate in the gifted community. She is passionate about supporting underserved gifted families, and volunteers in many capacities, including in the Member Advisory Group of NAGC (National Association of Gifted Children) and as co-facilitator of the parent homeschool support group in the Davidson Young Scholar community. Lisa is also a doctoral student at Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education.
President Emeritus, Barry B. Gelston, Ed.D.
Barry is our north star; his outlook on gifted and neurodivergent people’s capabilities is through a lens of genuine care, curiosity and seeing the good, the whole-person value, and the strengths and talents of each individual he encounters. It’s with this perception that he assembled and led a crew of unconventional parents and professionals, unified in their passion for supporting the gifted home educating community, to scoop a nearly-defunct Gifted Homeschoolers Forum off of the to-be-shuttered ash-pile, and into the phoenix of the community that we all now enjoy and that the board continues to steward and build upon.
In March, 2025, We unanimously voted to appoint Dr. Barry Gelston as President Emeritus of Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, in recognition of his outstanding leadership and lasting contributions - President Kasi Peters and the GHF Board of Directors
Dear Friends,
For me, the most exciting progress for GHF has been the evolution of the Mission, Vision, and Value statements. For the GHF Board of Directors, these statements are more than words on paper to be used for marketing or for checking off a box. We have used these statements as guidance for everything that we do in the organization. Board recruitment, programming, and our culture are all in line. We have no question as to why we are here, what we are doing, or for whom we are supporting.
Originally organized as the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF), we have had the opportunity to break down why families have needed this GHF. At first, we looked at what we do as only supporting the homeschool journey, but what we have found is that there is a meta step above that. We are a community of families who do not fit into the system based on the uniquenesses of giftedness. For some, that has meant accelerated learning that is self-paced and/or self-directed. For others, it is the intersectionality of multiple exceptionalities. Gifted children who were diagnosed with learning disabilities were not able to get a fair and equitable education. School systems had no idea how to support our kiddos.
The essence of GHF has been families taking charge of their children's education. Before schools had a 2e model by Susan Baum or families could supplement with the early online leaders like Online G3 and Athena's Advanced Academy, our families had to do it all on their own through homeschooling. We know that over half of our families were not planning on homeschooling their children. They did it out of necessity. This leads me to my next point, as more opportunities for our children have developed, our role has changed in the process.
"Whether they know it or not,
all families are homeschool families."
Today, we have more choices and families have the challenge to make the right decisions based on the uniqueness of each child. Our efforts as gifted homeschool families have formed a new model that we call Gifted Home Education. Whether they know it or not, all families are homeschool families. The question is whether we give up our power to the system or if we use our power as families to make strategic, proactive, and intentional, educational choices. Whatever your choices are, they are what is right for you at the moment. Making your own decisions regardless of what tools, methods, and partners you use, is Gifted Home Education.
This point of view is how and why GHF is expanding beyond supporting traditional homeschool families to also include all families who decide to use their own power to make the choices that are right for their own children. That is why you are seeing us double our efforts to include experts who support after-school and in-school decisions.
It is about time that we shared a common mission and vision with all gifted families.
We are all Gifted Home Educators.
Barry