Hello! I come to tutoring with rich experience instructing diverse students and subjects. Viewing each person as having unique gifts, I aim to identify and highlight your talents, locate areas of growth, and tailor highly individualized guidance and practice sets. I especially enjoy enhancing your skills in academic writing, literature, and test preparation, as well as success with college and graduate admission essays. Tough topics can be approachable and fun!

Having worked for over five years as a tutor and teacher with various renowned test prep companies, I instruct ACT, SAT, PSAT, ISEE, and SSAT. To qualify to teach for these companies, I needed myself to score in the 99th percentile. A recent success includes, after six weeks of prep, an 8th grade student boosted his PSAT score over 300 points, placing it in the 99th percentile. In under five weeks, a sophomore with neurodiversity and test anxiety improved his ACT composite score three points, above the 95th percentile. My students have gone on to Columbia and UCLA undergrad, and MIT and University of Ontario graduate studies, among others.

In over ten years of teaching college composition, literature, creative writing, and other professional writing, I have embraced an acting motto: when we become interested, we become interesting. Choosing topics about which we are passionate yields better writing.

As an English grad student and PhD postdoctoral fellow at a private college, I partnered with undergrads, mostly in engineering and computer sciences. I taught professional writing, including editing grad school application essays. In this college setting, I tutored the writing process extensively. As such, I was nominated as instructor and tutoring consultant of the year. Irrespective of English mastery, I walk alongside you to hone your unique voice.

Whatever your starting point, I demystify and personalize test prep and writing. Together we will develop a plan to optimize our time to reach your goals!