2025-2026 Math Program Director, Mentor: Secondary Math II (Live and Self-Paced), Secondary Math III (Live and Self-Paced), Math Lab, Teaching Textbooks License Manager
2026-2027 Math Program Director, Mentor: Secondary Math II (Live and Self-Paced), Secondary Math III (Live and Self-Paced), Math Lab, Teaching Textbooks License Manager
Desirea Forbes is excited to be working at Ensign Peak Academy. She has a passion for teaching and helping students achieve their goals. She especially loves watching students learn and grow!
Desirea was born and raised in Emigration Canyon Township just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Mathematics Education. After spending a year and a half teaching math in Utah’s public schools, she moved with her husband to Japan to support him in his United States Air Force career. While in Japan, she spent the time teaching English to Japanese elementary students.
While following her husband around for his career, Desirea and their four kids have lived in multiple states and have experienced life in several different places. Desirea spent several years working as a Real Estate Agent and property manager, earning Rookie of the Year awards in her brokerage firm.
Desirea has a great love for her Savior Jesus Christ and understands that learning is part of the process to become like Him. Along with teaching at Ensign Peak Academy, she teaches early morning seminary in Virginia, where she currently resides.
Dane Camp
2025-2026 Mentor: Secondary Math I
Eghosa Oghodo
2025-2026 Mentor: Secondary Math I and III (EMEA live)
2026-2027 Mentor: Secondary Math I (EMEA live)
Eghosa Oghodo is the founder of Ena Technologies Co. a solar energy company in Benin City, Nigeria. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Benin and is a member of the Association of Energy Engineers. While in college he taught high school math, physics and chemistry part time in private schools across his city. Eghosa is passionate about youth development and mentoring and this passion inspired him to launch the Ena Technologies Scholarship a program that offers free solar PV installation training, mentorship and internship opportunities for recent high school graduates. He volunteers as a Sunday school teacher in his local branch and enjoys reading and singing.
Kimberly Bingham
2025-2026 Mentor: Middle School Math Study Hall
2026-2027 Mentor: Middle School Math Study Hall
Kimberly Bingham is an online educator and homeschooling mother of four. She currently teaches English as a Second Language through an online platform, and has worked as an international relations consultant. Prior to educating her children at home, Kimberly served as a Logistics Officer in the United States Marine Corps, successfully completing deployment missions to Afghanistan and Iraq. She received commendation for providing seamless logistics support to 5 forward-deployed operating bases simultaneously in support of global operations. She enjoys volunteering with the Red Cross, and Kimberly is the Illinois State Ambassador for Home School Legal Defense Association Compassion, which allows her to serve homeschooling families in need. Kimberly believes deeply in integrity, diligence, and service to others. She is a life-long learner with a passion for foreign languages, music, and Brazilian martial arts. Kimberly is excited to be part of the Ensign Peak Academy team!
Ben Muhlestein
2025-2026 Mentor: Intermediate Math I (Live and Self-Paced), Intermediate Math II (Live and Self-Paced)
2026-2027 Mentor: Intermediate Math I (Live morning and afternoon and Self-Paced), Intermediate Math II (Live morning and afternoon and Self-Paced)
Benjamin S. Muhlestein resides in Overton, Nevada and is a husband and father of a beautiful wife and six wonderful children. He served a Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission. He received his Bachelor’s of Paralegal Studies from Utah Valley University in 2002, and earned his Master’s Degree in Classical Liberal Arts from George Wythe University in 2016. He has mentored youth and adults nationally and internationally for many years. He taught Seminary for an entire school year as a student teacher. He is the Founder of Illuminating the Light Within, Restoringthefounders.com, The Quintilian School of Oratory, and The George Washington Character Curricula. Benjamin has a deep passion for learning and teaching principles of liberty and freedom, and has great faith in the rising generation of youth to rise to the full potential of who God needs them to become.
Heidi Pope
2025-2026 Mentor: 3rd Grade Math Study Hall
2026-2027 Mentor: 3rd Grade Math Study Hall
Heidi has been homeschooling for 26 years. She and her husband have five beautiful children, four of which are married with families of their own. Prior to her career in home and family life, she was the director of Human Resources for a Marketing and Political Research Firm. She has been a freelance writer and journalist for three decades and has received numerous accolades for her amusing apologues.
Heidi enjoys organizing community events and educational projects. She has enjoyed gathering community participation with programs such as an international language training and student exchange, historical battle re-enactments, emergency planning and preparation events and is currently the torchbearer for Bismarck Children of Christ Leadership Academy. Heidi loves working with children, and youth and loves helping them make spiritual connections to the world around them.
She has a predilection for creating team building opportunities and experiences for young people and families. She loves serving at the temple, spending time with her husband and homeschooling her youngest son. She enjoys creating funny memories, playing games with her family, kayaking, reading and playing with her grandchildren.
Sarah Reynolds
2025-2026 Mentor: 4th Grade Math Study Hall
2026-2027 Mentor 4th Grade Math Study Hall
Sarah Reynolds grew up in the redwoods of Northern California and loves driving all over the USA. She met her future husband after serving a mission in Quito, Ecuador. One of the things she really liked about him when they met was that he served in her home mission (Santa Rosa, CA) and knew where her hometown was! She married her sweetheart in 2011 and they quickly started welcoming their four children to their family. She now loves bringing her four children along with her on road trips. They never have a boring time.
Sarah graduated from Brigham Young University with a major in Spanish and a minor in English. She loves to serve in her community and has been elected to roles of leadership in her local PTA, as well as currently serving as a Beta Club Sponsor for her homeschooling group. She started homeschooling her children in 2020 and fell in love with the freedom to explore her children’s interests. She treasures the time she has with them at home and watching them grow up together.
Sarah comes from a family of educators, her father teaching math for several years and her mother working at the local community college. She also has a brother who teaches a travel high school, and two brothers that homeschool their families with their wives. They often collaborate and share learning resources. She loves the pursuit of knowledge and helping others to fall in love with this process.
Tara Kelley
2026-2027 Mentor: 5th and 6th Grade Math Study Hall
Tara has been teaching for over ten years. She has taught in public, private, and online schools. She has taught 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th grades. Most recently, she taught 1st grade at American Heritage School in American Fork, Utah. She is a Wyoming girl at heart, and she is so excited to move back to Cody, Wyoming this summer. After teaching at American Heritage for a year, Tara has been able to enthusiastically return to Ensign Peak Academy.
Mrs. Kelley has six children, with the youngest being born just after school ended in May. Their ages are 19, 17, 14, 13, 8, and newborn. She truly believes that “children are an heritage of the Lord.” She spent one year homeschooling three of her children, and will continue to personally provide their education in the years to come. Tara and her husband have been married for 21 years. He works as a Temple Facilities Manager for the Cody Wyoming Temple. This position and the rapid construction are what is bringing them back to the Cody area.
Mrs. Kelley enjoys reading, baking, working out, fishing, hiking, paddleboarding, playing games with her family, and learning all she can about homesteading. She is looking forward to working with students in reading and writing again this year. She enjoys seeing insights and creativity that students have when they read a story that changes their lives or when they share their thoughts, feelings, and ideas through writing.
Alyssa Jensen
2025-2026 Mentor: 5th Grade Math Study Hall, 3rd – 6th Grade self-paced students, K – 2nd Grade IXL Math
2026-2027 Mentor: Ensign Peak Academy Math 6
Alyssa Jensen is first and foremost a wife and mother to five amazing children. The Jensen family has been homeschooling for the past seven years and have really enjoyed learning in a gospel centered setting. Alyssa graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. She has taught off and on in the public school setting as well as teaching English online. Alyssa has also developed and taught curriculum for a variety of homeschool classes and co-ops. Alyssa grew up in West Valley City, Utah where she met her very own knight in shining armor (sir lancer of Granger High school). Alyssa married her knight in 2001 and have moved their way across the country living in Arizona, New Mexico and the past decade in South Carolina. They now reside in League City, Texas.
Alyssa has a passion for learning and loves to teach because she learns so much. She is often found serving with the youth and children in the church. Her favorite service was when she was able to teach early morning seminary. Alyssa is a certified personal trainer and behavior change specialist. She loves being active and pushing herself in the gym. One of her favorite things is to see the light of understanding illuminate in someone she is teaching.
Lisa Oilar
2025-2026 Mentor: Ensign Peak Academy Math 6
2026-2027 Mentor: Ensign Peak Academy Math 5
Lisa Oilar is an experienced educator who has taught students at all levels from kindergarten through 12th grade over the past 25 years in both traditional classroom settings and as a homeschool teacher. She grew up in Northern California and was actively involved in sports throughout her youth, later playing basketball at the collegiate level. Lisa earned her teaching credential from Chico State and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Simpson University. She has also worked extensively with gifted students at the middle and high school levels.
Lisa considers her most meaningful role to be that of a mother to her seven children—six boys and one girl—most of whom are now pursuing their own paths and accomplishments. She has a deep love for learning and is especially passionate about the Savior, the temple, and living the restored gospel, which she embraced at the age of 16. She enjoys a wide range of activities including reading, traveling, knitting, gardening, skiing, swimming, and exploring new places. Lisa and her family enjoy life in both Wyoming and Montana.
