Tiffany Ard

Tiffany brings calm intentionality and nerdy enthusiasm to everything she does. Part of Atlanta’s secular homeschooling community for over 15 years, she teaches art and writing classes, runs maker workshops, leads science demonstrations, and helps other parents navigate homeschooling teens. In the classroom she creates a safe, collaborative environment where kids stretch their skills and find their voice.

Both of her daughters were homeschooled from K-12, mostly with curricula that Tiffany created for them. It seems to have worked out: her oldest is now a junior at Agnes Scott, and her younger is currently dual enrolled at Chattahoochee Tech. Tiffany has gone on to develop curriculum for several organizations, and was invited to attend SCIFOO, a conference hosted by Google featuring thinkers and scientists who come together to discuss out of the box solutions to global challenges. At the conference, she presented ideas about pedagogy, anti bullying programs, and participated in a panel discussion with Bill Nye about science literacy.

Tiffany holds a BFA in Art and Performance from the University of Texas at Dallas, and studied Rhetoric and Composition at UNT’s selective graduate writing program. She spent much of the 90s creating content, designing web sites, planning business systems and apps (although they weren’t called apps back then). By the turn of the century, tired of waiting for Casual Fridays to wear denim overalls, she began working full-time as a freelance writer and illustrator. She has done work for companies like (client name drop!) AT&T, Purina, IBM, Cigna Health, TRICARE, Microsoft, Miro, and a bazillion tech and medical startups.

Oh and! In 2007, she launched Nerdy Baby, a line of STEM toys, books, and decor. Once upon a time, her work was sold in national catalogs Think Geek and UncommonGoods, as well as gift shops in The American Museum of Natural History, Boston Science Museum, and the Exploratorium. She is the author and illustrator of several children’s books including Pat Schrodinger’s Kitty, Little Red Hen Builds A Computer, The Gingerbread Particle and Goldilocks and the Three Inventors.