Rhonan Mokrisi is a native of Connecticut, who graduated from Boston College undergraduate and Southern Connecticut State University as a grad student. For 29 years, he has been teaching at his alma mater, Salisbury School, in the far northwestern part of Connecticut. During Covid, Rhonan made some changes as a teacher, moving from focusing on content to skills to embrace authenticity with students in the role of historian, as he himself was learning about the often forgotten or overlooked roles his home state played throughout history.