Claudia Root: The Better Half

A Partner for Life

Claudia is a graduate of the Wheaton College Intercultural/TESOL Graduate School Program. She has been teaching ELL to immigrant and refugee students in the public school for 25 years. She began teaching graduate classes as an adjunct professor as well as conducting workshops in several countries. Throughout her life and marriage to Jerry she has been involved in Christian discipleship and leading small groups.

Recently retired, she is now focusing on discipleship with the C.S. Lewis Institute and running the website Bearings On the Bright Blur, which encourages people to grow and develop through blogs, writings, works of C.S. Lewis and various other authors. She and Jerry have 4 married children and 15 grandchildren.