I bring a genuinely wide-angle view to tutoring, shaped by work across healthcare, the arts, nonprofit development, and entrepreneurship, before ever stepping into a classroom. That range shows up in how I teach: academics don't exist in a void. The more we understand our full experience as learners, including our nervous systems, emotions, and sense of self, the more intentionally we can build a learning environment that treats mistakes as fuel for the next leap forward rather than something...
I bring a genuinely wide-angle view to tutoring, shaped by work across healthcare, the arts, nonprofit development, and entrepreneurship, before ever stepping into a classroom. That range shows up in how I teach: academics don't exist in a void. The more we understand our full experience as learners, including our nervous systems, emotions, and sense of self, the more intentionally we can build a learning environment that treats mistakes as fuel for the next leap forward rather than something to fear.
I have been a certified classroom teacher in two states, Illinois and Mississippi, teaching first and second grade. In Chicago Public Schools, I served as literacy lead for my grade band and culture-and-climate lead for the whole school, a role that grew directly out of how I ran my own classroom, a model I later wrote into a toolkit for other educators. Beyond the classroom, I've also worked with teens for years, through organizations like the Coalition for Positive Sexuality, the Chicago Freedom School, and the Jane Addams Hull House Cities of Peace program.
I trained as a Holistic Somatic Coach through the Radiant Coaching Academy, with additional training through the Strozzi Institute and Staci Haines' Politics of Trauma program. I hold a Bachelor's from The Evergreen State College and TEFL certification, and I am in the process of finishing my ICF credentialing.
I tend to do especially well with kids navigating executive functioning differences, ADHD, and autism. Not because these are issues to fix, but because they're ways of being that deserve accommodation, and with the right tools, information, and strategies, everyone can find ways to thrive. Weaving in somatic awareness, neuroscience, and social-emotional skills shapes every session. My tutoring covers elementary reading and math, executive function and focus skills, and more advanced reading comprehension, including social studies and history.
