Lara Sowell teaches Latin III and IV in the Logic & Rhetoric Schools. She attended Texas Wesleyan University for one semester and then transferred to University of Texas at Arlington where she studied German and Mathematics. As a Christian, Lara knows every person has been created with the 'imago Dei' (image of God) and has the innate ability to learn. This inherent value placed on each person dictates her classroom culture in the way people treat each other. God has endless patience with people and repeats the lessons He is teaching them until they finally get them. God is the model Teacher she aims to be. All languages are created by God and reflect His order (truth,) logic (goodness,) and rhetoric (beauty.) 

Lara met her husband, Mark, while working as a pharmacy technician at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Worth. They married in 1992 and Lara joined Mark in Cleveland, OH, where he was attending medical school. They are immensely proud of their four children, Camille, Tyler, Jonathan, and Andria. In 1994 the couple became interested in classical Christian education.

After settling in Nacogdoches in July 1999, Mark and Lara met like-minded people, and started planning Regents Academy in the fall of 2001 and opened Regents Academy to students in the fall of 2002. Lara agreed to teach Latin at the school even though she had only taught introductory Latin in a home school setting. Over the years she taught herself Latin and has been teaching Latin every year since the school opened. Lara enjoys going for walks, hanging out with friends, and listening to audio books. Lara serves locally on the Nacogdoches Mayor's Committee on People with Disabilities.  She is also president of the NFB National Organization of Blind Educators, treasurer of the National Federation of the Blind of Texas, president of the NFBTX Lone Star Chapter, and chairs the NFBTX Scholarship Committee.