Amanda started down the road of becoming a professional educator in fifth grade when she was selected by her teacher for the school’s Kindergarten Reading Buddy Program. She became instantly enamored with her tiny, hilarious buddy and with the joy that comes from helping others to learn. She...

Anagha is from the lovely state of New Jersey, and was fortunate to stay there for her undergraduate education at Princeton University. She graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular Biology and minors in Ethnographic Studies as well as Global Health. She was also elected to...

Andrew received his bachelor’s degree in American History and English Literature from the College of William and Mary, holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, and is currently finishing up his Ph.D. on the history of non-profit philanthropic foundations at Columbia University in...

Anna is a full-time tutor and theater-maker who lives with her husband and adorable kitty in San Diego, CA. She is a recent graduate of Harvard University with a BA cum laude in English with a minor in Linguistics and Language Theory. Her English studies at Harvard focused primarily on fiction,...

Annabel’s educational journey began with homeschooling in Southport, Connecticut and taking online courses through Stanford University’s Educated Program for Gifted Youth. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, with a BA in English and minors in...

Ayana first fell in love with writing in her childhood diary--creating the life stories of imaginary characters, toys, and the strangers of New York City. Following her visions of the future, Ayana left the hustle and bustle of the city to attend Northfield Mount Hermon School, a college prep...

Ben is a reformed “not a math type of person”, who grew to love statistics by analyzing genetic sequencing data at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center. Ben initially studied biochemistry as an undergraduate at Hamilton College, receiving an honorary membership to Sigma Xi and several...

Brian is a native of Long Island and began tutoring in high school. He worked with high school juniors studying calculus, second and third graders with special needs on their homework, and with a range of students and subjects in between. At Dartmouth, Brian worked as an assistant teacher (“...

Brittany started her career in science at Providence College as a member of the Liberal Arts Honors College. She was one of six biology majors accepted into a Neuroscience Certificate Program, a program that merged her interest in both biology and psychology. She spent 3 years in the...

Before Bryce wanted to be a doctor, he was settled on becoming a bird. Yes, you read that correctly – at 4 years old he thought he could actually become an entirely different organism. Since a drastic change in ambition redirected his focus, Bryce attended Duke University and graduated summa...

Calvin was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Coming from a family of educators, it didn’t take long for Calvin to become one himself: he started tutoring his geometry classmates and Latin club friends at age 12 and has never looked back. After graduating from Georgia Tech in three years...

Casey moved to New York in 2015 after earning her Bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of William and Mary, and received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2020. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University where she...

In 2006, Charles spent eight months working as an ESL instructor in Ikebukuro, a district of Tokyo, where he first learned the joys of eating onigiri. After graduating from Princeton University with BSE in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Theater and Dance, he worked for a Princeton...

Chris graduated from Princeton, in 2009, with an AB in German Literature and a Certificate in Creative Writing (Poetry). His junior papers, on a short story of Robert Musil’s and a novella of Samuel Beckett’s, won the German Department’s Junior Independent Work Prize, and his thesis on Musil won...

Chris grew up with a passion for STEM, which he explored at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Earning a full-tuition scholarship, he studied Chemical Engineering and completed exciting Biomedical Engineering projects, like growing "dancing" heart tissue whose beating...

Born and raised in South Texas, Colin was set free to explore the garden that is New Jersey at 18. He wound up at Princeton University, where he graduated with honors in shapes, colors and feelings (Anthropology) and learned a lot of languages (French, Greek, Arabic, and Chinese), many of which...

Darin loves being a scientist and professor. After double majoring in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics at Harvard (magna cum laude), he went to Caltech to get a Ph.D. in planetary science. He's loved studying orbits and planets ever since! After a couple of postdocs, he is now junior...

Deanna was born and raised in the Boston area. Starting from a young age, Deanna always knew she wanted to be some type of engineer. It was not until her high school anatomy class that defined her career forever, pushing her into biomedical engineering. From there, Deanna attended Worcester...

Dylan is originally from Boca Raton, Florida. He attended Dartmouth College where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a major in biology and a minor in earth sciences. As an undergraduate, he regularly volunteered with cancer patients and served as an editor and writer...

Efrat grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and launched her teaching career in the eighth grade when she started tutoring ESL students at the local community college. Myriads of tutoring sessions later, Efrat found herself as a high school teacher teaching biology, Hebrew, Judaic studies and music. While...

Elise grew up in a school run by her parents on a small farm in northern Vermont. With that background, it was inevitable that she would go into education herself one day. Elise went to Williams College, majoring in Political Philosophy, graduating Cum Laude. After taking a few years to...

Emily is a theatre kid from Jersey turned writing coach, educator, and interdisciplinary humanities scholar. She received her PhD from Columbia University in Theatre and Performance, a subcommittee of the English and Comparative Literature department, in Spring 2020. Building off her...

Emily was a Criminology major at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently, Emily graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and received the honor of induction to the AOA and Gold Humanism Honors Societies. She is currently...

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Erica also lived in Brussels, Paris, and Massachusetts before coming to New York in 2005. Salutatorian of her high school class, she graduated a year early from Smith College, with high honors and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. During her time at Smith, Erica...

Esmat grew up near Sacramento, CA where she spent most of her time rooting for the Sacramento Kings and eating saltwater taffy. Esmat attended UC Berkeley where she graduated with a major in microbial biology and a minor in secondary mathematics & science education. While there, she was...

Determined to fully appreciate the experience of being a Roman soldier stationed at the edge of the world, Glenn once hiked the length of Hadrian’s Wall during a hurricane. Glenn earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he discovered his love...

Hannah’s teaching career started when she would play school with her younger sister by assigning her extra “lessons'' and “homework”.  Since then her teaching experience spans four countries, multiple courses, and an array of teaching techniques.  After graduating summa cum laude from...

Helena was born in New York City and then raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Raised by parents who are both teachers (at the high school she attended, no less), she has been engaged with reading, writing, and education quite literally since she can remember. She studied at Columbia University...

James was born and raised in New York City. He was an undergraduate at Yale, where he fell in love with organic chemistry (yes, he was that kid). After majoring in chemistry and graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to continue his studies at the...

Jeremy grew up in snowy Madison, Wisconsin where they grew up ski racing (including in the Junior Olympics) and binge watching “That 70’s Show” (set in WI). Jeremy left Wisconsin for Duke University for undergrad. They studied Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Global Health. They graduated...

Joani began her academic career in the small town of Princeton, NJ. She graduated from Princeton summa cum laude, with an A.B. in English Literature and minors in Humanistic and European Cultural Studies. As an undergraduate, she founded and led Princeton’s interdisciplinary Humanities...

Originally from the midwest, John learned to teach and tutor while earning his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. In his graduate program, he studied race and the slave trade in the literature of the Europe and the Americas, with an emphasis on Brazil. He...

Hailing from a small town in the Tar Heel State, Johnny spent most of childhood playing defensive back on the football field, and dreaming of a career in science. After years of science fairs, mathematical competitions and clinical hospital shadowing, Johnny has found a passion for medicine,...

Josef graduated from high school with a 3.9 GPA and enough credits from Advanced Placement (AP) exams to skip an entire year of college. This allowed him to complete a four-year combined BA/MA program in Economics at Boston University, in addition to a comprehensive minor in Sustainable Energy...

When Joe was in middle school, he downloaded an episode of Scrubs on his iPod Video and the rest is history. What followed has been a lifelong journey towards becoming a doctor. Joe was the valedictorian at his high school, the Academy for Allied Health Sciences in New Jersey, before attending...

Joy graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and completed a post-baccalaureate fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. She is currently an MD/PhD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she plans to pursue doctoral research on cancer biology.

Julia grew up in New York City and attended Princeton University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2008. After college, she worked in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to healthcare in rural communities. She went on to Harvard Medical School and is currently...

Katherine obtained her undergraduate degree in Classics and Molecular Biology, Summa cum Laude, from Harvard University. Awarded a Harvard Knox Fellowship to study in the United Kingdom for one year, she earned a Master’s degree in Classical Art and Archaeology with Distinction (equivalent of...

As a child, Kelly envisioned her ideal career to be an aerobic dance class instructor but decided that being a physician could be a good alternative. While Kelly can still be found Zumba-ing to youtube videos in her living room between Microbiology and Immunology exams, it seems that things have...

King is a first generation college and medical student at Harvard Medical School. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he graduated high school as the Valedictorian. He was awarded a full scholarship to study at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a Bachelor...

Latoya was born in Montego-Bay, Jamaica, and later moved to Jamaica, Queens with her family. She is currently pursuing an MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Latoya graduated from Harvard College in 2015 with a B.A. in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, a...

In third grade, Lucina taught long division crouched on the tiles of her school’s hallway; as her peers gained confidence, she sent them to teach others. She has seen teaching and learning as inextricable ever since, which is why she coaches students to become their own best teachers.

As...

Born and raised in New York, Madeleine earned her BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and spent two years working in Turkey as a teacher and a journalist before returning to her hometown to join the editorial staff of the New Yorker Magazine. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in Near Eastern...

Maggie probably should have realized that she was meant to be a history teacher when she would force her younger brothers to play school and teach them lessons about the Irish Potato Famine. Maggie graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth, where she majored in History with a minor in Education...

Manasa, originally from Johns Creek, Georgia, attended the University of Georgia, where she majored in biochemistry and molecular biology and minored in Spanish. Going to the big Georgia state school also made her an avid football fan (GO DAWGS), a loyalty that has only strengthened since she...

Martin Carlino hails from “Lawn Guyland”, New York, though years in New England--and, more recently, Olde England--have rendered him more presentable to polite company.  While completing his BA at Harvard, Martin concentrated in Government with an emphasis in political philosophy and served for...

Matthew grew up in Carpinteria, CA and received his undergraduate degree at Vassar College. He pursued a double concentration in biochemistry and Chinese, and he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society and Sigma Xi upon graduation. After spending two years studying the effects of fasting on...

Max hails from New York City (LaG, 2011), and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with degrees in Film & Media Studies, Music, and Global Environmental Change & Sustainability. In pursuit of some kind of constellation of these fields and ideas, he completed a M.St. at...

When Md was 12 years old, he and his family moved from Bangladesh and settled in New York City. Md later attended the City College of New York and graduated magna cum laude in biochemistry. In college, Md was the President of the Baskerville Chemical Society and enjoyed volunteering in...

Michael was born in Boston, and is happy to accept brutal winters in return for having championship sports teams. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University, becoming a Bachelor of Science in Physics (with Highest Honors) and in Mathematics. Upon graduation...

Miriam has held steadfast to her grandfather’s motto “always be curious” ever since she began building Knex roller coasters and reading her math textbooks for fun. Her multidisciplinary interests led her to pursue a joint BA/BS from Stern College for Women, where she studied biochemistry and...

Born and raised in Iowa, Molly couldn’t wait to travel and explore a real city. For undergrad, she attended Northwestern University (not quite in Chicago but close enough) where she received her BS in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Global Health (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi)....

Nora Isacoff, PhD, is a professor in the Psychology departments at both Columbia University and New York University, and a former National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. She has many years of experience working directly with students of all ages, from elementary school through adults. Her...

Olivia originally hails from Boston, though she's now proud to call New York City her home (where her Boston Red Sox gear definitely stands out).  Before moving to New York, Olivia graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in English and a minor in Theater Performance.  At...

Perry is coming to terms with the fact that the Celtics will never need his upbeat demeanor and weak dribbling skills (even on their bench). Perry attended Yale University, graduating cum laude and earning distinction in the English major for his senior essays on Romantic and Victorian poetry....

Peter was born and raised in New York City, and remembers a time when angry men in Elmo costumes were not the scariest thing about Times Square. A graduate of Regis High School and Columbia University, where he majored in history and was foolish enough to voluntarily write a thesis, he spent a...

On a late summer day in 2011, Pooja packed the last of her free robotics swag and Aéropostale jackets in her suitcase, soaked in a few more rays of the burning California sun, and whispered under her breath: “hasta la vista, Bay-by.” Cambridge was her new home now. At least for four years, that...

Rebecca was raised in the woods of North Carolina, where she learned to love both reading and climbing trees. Rebecca received her A.B. from Harvard, where she designed an independent major in drama and literature and graduated with high honors. Her senior thesis won a Thomas T. Hoopes prize,...

Rosa is a Native New Yorker, and unfortunately, a Mets fan. She was bitten by the theater bug early, and she has participated as an actor, director, playwright, and dramaturge.  She attended Reed College where she majored in English and made Dean’s list every semester. She received her Ph.D. in...

Sam is a native New Yorker and proud alumnus of Stuyvesant High School. He graduated from Middlebury College with departmental honors, majoring in English and minoring in Spanish. While at Middlebury, Sam was invited to attend the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers Conference for his work in fiction...

As an identical twin, from a family with two sets of identical twins, Sean grew up in a collaborative and lively environment, where he cultivated his love of mentoring. Sean attended Cornell University, majoring in Chemistry, minoring in Biology, and graduating with distinction in 2015....

Stephanie is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a BS in Neuroscience from Georgia State University, where she graduated summa cum laude. She is currently pursuing an M.D. at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

Stephanie has worked...

A born-and-raised New Yorker, Sylvie first fell in love with reading while nestled between her parents on long subway rides. That love eventually took her to Princeton University, where she majored in English and received certificates in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Humanistic Studies, and...

Tess grew up on the coast of Maine and spent her childhood summers devouring as many garage sale paperbacks as she could find. These stories stoked a curiosity about the world and love of language that has stayed with Tess her whole life. In 2019, she graduated magna cum laude from...

Hailing from Chicago, Tova attended the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in anthropology. She recently completed her MPhil (with Merit) at the University of Cambridge where she studied Archaeology, with work spanning from theoretical anthropology to archaeobotany....

Will is from the coastal town of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.  He attended Bowdoin College where he graduated with honors in neuroscience. He now works in ophthalmology research at Boston Children’s Hospital where he studies many different forms of pediatric blindness and has co-authored multiple...