About Me

I’m an experienced and accomplished tutor, communicator, and learner. I’ve worked with middle and high school students, as well as undergraduates at Yale and Princeton. I’m here to help determined students achieve their learning goals through focused, adaptive tutoring.

Being able to relate the different representations of a quadratic function is crucial to cracking a large number of "hard" questions on the SAT Math section

Background

Originally, I’m from Norfolk, VA, home of what I believe is the world’s first ice cream cone machine. We also have a AAA baseball team, which was a farm team for the Mets when I was growing up, so I often heard Sinatra’s “New York, New York” on summer evenings.

My school offered the chance to start taking the PSAT and SAT as early as 7th grade. I had always had a lot of pride in my math ability, but even so it took consistent practice for me to master the different types of questions the test threw at me. I earned a perfect score on the Math and, eventually, on the Reading and Writing (which were separate sections back then).

Then for eight years I lived in New Haven, CT, where I got a bachelor’s and then a master’s degree from Yale. By the time I took the GRE in 2017, I had a better idea of how to learn and prepare for a test, and I got a perfect score on my first try.

At the moment, I’m just a few months away from completion of my Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, where I’ve spent years honing my spoken and written communication skills. My dissertation is on philosophical questions related to advances in physics.

Circles are also very important on the SAT and SSAT

Today

I’m eager to help you or your child reach your learning goals, whether those goals relate to an entrance exam you have to take, a class you need help in, writing you want to improve, or simply an area you want to learn more about. A key part of graduate school is learning how to learn efficiently, and I can use what I’ve learned to help you get to your goals on a meeting schedule that works for you. I’m even integrating AI into my teaching process so that I can show highly motivated students (especially those on a budget) how to develop their knowledge and skills at their own pace.

Students appreciate that I not only know the material, but am also a careful listener who can intuit how a student is approaching a problem and help them work step-by-step to the right answer. See for yourself what students and parents have to say.