Meet our Community - Columbus School for Girls

We are individual in mind and community at heart.

From engaged and engaging current students and their supportive parents, to our top-of-their-field faculty, to the extraordinary alumnae who have gone on to shape the world, we are so proud of and grateful for every member of the CSG community. These are just some of the people who make our halls warm, our minds sharp, and our hearts full. They're all incredible, inspiring, and involved.

You'll fit right in.

Jaiza Page '02

Jaiza Page '02

CSG Alumna

Judge Jaiza Page serves on the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, General Division. She was elected in 2018 and joined the bench in January of 2019. Judge Page completed her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and later graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She is grateful for her CSG experience and how she was encouraged to become a leader. Her favorite part of CSG was the relationships she developed with her teachers and how they helped her excel. She continues to connect with the CSG community as she serves on the Power & Promise campaign and has also had the opportunity to speak with the students on several occasions. For Judge Page, being a Unicorn means striving every day to empower women and affect change in her community.

Emma Spangler '22

Emma Spangler '22

Form XII Student, Gold Key Ambassador

Emma Spangler's journey to CSG started in 7th grade, when her dad’s job moved the family to Columbus from Philadelphia. Almost immediately, her family fell in love with the close-knit community at CSG, and she has never looked back since. One of her favorite aspects of CSG is the amazing faculty. Her advisor and freshman year history teacher, Mr. Frank O’Grady, was a long-time favorite of Spangler's. Another wonderful part of CSG for Spangler is our plethora of extracurricular activities offered here. While a student here, Spangler always considered herself as the “sports expert” when leading School tours: Her favorite extracurricular is soccer. Now graduated from CSG, Spangler plans to major in and hopefully enter the field of environmental science once she graduates from CSG.

Corey Baker

Corey Baker

Director of Library Services

Corey Baker is just starting his second year as Director of Library Services. He works with librarians in each division to ensure we have a thriving culture of reading at CSG and that each student has the skills and resources they need to effectively find, assess, and use information. He comes to CSG with 10 years of librarian experience, including five managing a middle school library and five as part of a high school library team. Before earning his graduate degree in library science, Baker was an elementary teacher who loved reading aloud and introducing students to their local history through research.

One of Baker’s favorite things about CSG is how excited so many of our students are about reading and how enthusiastically teachers support reading materials of all kinds, starting in the PYC. In the years to come, Baker is hoping to bring more media literacy to classroom activities, build student capacity to understand current events, and grow our institutional capacity for student publication. There is so much potential right now, and he’s thrilled to be part of it!

Peyton Files '27

The thing I like most about going to an all-girl school is the community and how everyone collaborates. When I first came to CSG in first grade, I was very nervous. The CSG community helped me feel welcome and they were very inclusive.

Lynn Sweeney

Lynn Sweeney

Middle School Faculty

Lynn Sweeney has been teaching language arts and history at CSG since before her current Form VI students were born. She joined the faculty in 2006 with a variety of teaching experiences in parochial and public schools, as well as a private teaching job abroad, in Bangkok, Thailand. Additionally, Lynn worked in corporate human resources for Limited Brands for more than four years.

Using creativity in her planning, Lynn has enjoyed incorporating her life experiences into the curriculum in order to teach her students valuable life-long skills. Lynn sees CSG as a place where she herself has grown. She is often inspired by her students’ curiosity, perseverance, and determination. Lynn witnesses, year-after-year, the significant growth of her students who rise to the challenge of her teaching between the months of August and June. She values working at a place where she can watch her students continue their education through middle school and high school. She loves to see them graduate as young adults, bound to change the world for the better. Lynn is married to Dr. Kevin Sweeney, Upper School physics teacher, and together they have three children, including a daughter who attends CSG.

Krissy Fenner '97

Krissy Fenner '97

CSG ALUMNA

A leader at the City of Columbus Division of Power, I have the privilege of managing projects from advancing clean energy to creating low-income assistance programs. I oversee a $95MM+ operations budget, staff, marketing, communications, purchasing, customer service, special projects, and DEI programs. In addition, I serve on the Olive Tree Foundation for Girls Board and the CSG Alumnae Association Board. I graduated cum laude with a BA in African American Studies from OSU, and I have an MBA from Franklin University.

I am a member of the CSG class of 1997. Being a Unicorn means the world to me. I even have Forte et Gratum tattooed on my arm. I have so many fond memories from CSG, especially the life-long friendships I developed. To me, CSG represents excellence and tradition. CSG gave me the ability to seek truth, and the know-how to affect change. I am honored to be a CSG alumna.

Leigh Kane

Leigh Kane

Assistant Director of Admissions

Leigh Kane was a Lower School teacher (2008-2009) for the past 13 years and served as a Form I teacher before moving up to Form II. This upcoming 2022-23 school year, she will be transitioning out of the classroom to serve CSG in a new capacity as the Assistant Director of Admissions. She is looking forward to this new shift in Admissions working with prospective young ladies and their families, while also partnering closely with CSG's faculty to maintain retention and grow our community.

Leigh has an elementary teaching license with a reading endorsement, a Master of Science in Educational Leadership and has previous experience in sales and marketing.

Mrs. Kane's favorite part of being at CSG is reuniting with past students in the halls, out at recess or even when they visit her prior to their senior graduation! A favorite classroom memory is during a read aloud of one of her favorite Books, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Mrs. Kane cried so much at the end of the story to the extent that a student had to continue reading for Mrs. Kane so she could gain her composure. It's a poignant book about true friendship that Mrs. Kane cannot resist reading to her students even if that means crying in front of a classroom!

According to Mrs. Kane, to be a Unicorn at CSG means being your authentic self, adding to the breadth of a special community of other unicorns who encourage you to do your best, stretch your thinking and treat others with kindness.