My name is Mimi. I am pleased to be included in your current search for a tutor. I believe I have the ideal educational background, cultural competence, strong work ethic, and unwavering belief in the transformative power of education that you desire and need in a tutor. Everything I do as an educator centers around engaging, inspiring, and empowering students to actualize their potential and become productive global citizens.
DEDICATED ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
I earned my Masters from the...
My name is Mimi. I am pleased to be included in your current search for a tutor. I believe I have the ideal educational background, cultural competence, strong work ethic, and unwavering belief in the transformative power of education that you desire and need in a tutor. Everything I do as an educator centers around engaging, inspiring, and empowering students to actualize their potential and become productive global citizens.
DEDICATED ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
I earned my Masters from the UW-Seattle, where I am pursuing a fully-funded PhD in English through a Top Scholar Graduate Fellowship that indicates my primary rank in the department. As an undergraduate, I served as President of Sigma Tau Delta, an international honors society, presented at national conferences, including Harvard, joined Phi Beta Kappa, graduated magna cum laude with a double major and a minor, and received the prestigious Fulbright award, as well as the Dean’s Medal in the Humanities – the highest honor a graduating student in a discipline can attain. I offer this personal record of academic excellence in the service of helping you design, implement, and achieve your own goals for individualized instruction.
DIVERSE STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
I have a demonstrated ability of working with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations from P-12 to higher education. I have taught in formal and informal education settings for over 20 years, maintaining years-long connection with students who speak different languages, live on different economic brackets, follow different cultural and religious paths, and hail from 30+ different countries around the world. The breadth of my teaching experience does not preclude my passion for and specialization in working with underserved, underprivileged, and underrepresented student populations.
EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Several years ago, I returned to the U.S. from two years of serving as an English teacher and U.S. cultural ambassador in South Korea through Fulbright, the U.S. gove
