I am a Harvard- and Oxford-trained writing coach who helps students craft authentic, compelling college essays, personal statements, and application materials. I studied at McGill, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Oxford, where I completed doctoral training in anthropology. I currently teach and mentor graduate students in a global health program at Harvard Medical School, and I will be teaching undergraduates at Princeton as part of my upcoming postdoctoral placement.
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I am a Harvard- and Oxford-trained writing coach who helps students craft authentic, compelling college essays, personal statements, and application materials. I studied at McGill, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Oxford, where I completed doctoral training in anthropology. I currently teach and mentor graduate students in a global health program at Harvard Medical School, and I will be teaching undergraduates at Princeton as part of my upcoming postdoctoral placement.
I have over a decade of experience teaching, mentoring, and coaching students, researchers, and early-career professionals. My experience includes undergraduate and graduate teaching, school-based teaching, one-on-one student mentorship, fieldwork supervision, academic writing support, and application guidance. I have also written successful grant, fellowship, and institutional applications supporting global health and community-based mental health work.
My coaching focuses on helping students find their authentic voice and craft compelling, honest stories. Many students begin with essays that feel too broad, too résumé-like, or too generic. I help them identify the specific moments, questions, commitments, challenges, relationships, or intellectual interests that reveal who they are and how they think. I support Common App essays, supplemental essays, “Why this college?” essays, personal statements, scholarship and fellowship essays, graduate school statements, and academic writing.
My approach is collaborative and ethical. My role is to help students clarify their ideas, structure their writing, revise with purpose, and express themselves in a voice that is polished but still genuinely their own. In a first session, we discuss the student’s background, interests, activities, target schools, deadlines, and essay ideas. If the student already has a draft, I provide feedback on structure, voice, clarity, specificity, and strategy. My goal is to help students produce writing that is thoughtful, memorable, and true to them.
