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Chris graduated from Brown University in 2019 with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Computer-Science-Economics. He now lives in Brooklyn, tutoring a variety of subjects and working as a web developer. In his free time, Chris loves to travel and take photos-- he has visited over twelve different countries during this past year alone. He grew up in the wooded suburbs of Upstate NY, where he fell in love with hiking, camping, kayaking, snowboarding, and anything else outdoors-related.…

Chris is a licensed skydiver with over 40 skydives under his belt!

After graduating from Colgate University, Michelle combined working in the Financial Services sector in NYC with SAT and ACT tutoring at all of the large tutoring companies. She quickly realized that she loved working with kids and went on to obtain her Masters in Education from Seton Hall. Michelle has been teaching and tutoring for nearly 20 years! Michelle has a certificate in College Counseling from UCLA and is a proud member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors…

Michelle has been Jersey Girls Lacrosse Association Coach since 2018!

Travis, a native New Yorker who attended Riverdale Country School, earned a double major in Biomedical Engineering and French from Yale in 2018. He starts his PhD in Biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins in the summer of 2020. Travis taught biology at a NYC charter school, which includes test prep for the Living Environment Regents, the SAT II biology test, and SAT math. Travis began tutoring in high school eight years ago. Always looking for further opportunities to pursue his…

Travis performed in Footloose in middle school and Kevin Bacon came to see it! His mother has the photo to prove it!

Melissa just completed Columbia Law School. Prior, she graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in History and a certificate in Values and Public Life, a program that combined politics and philosophy courses. She earned the rank of Salutatorian in her high school class in Long Island, and was named an Intel Talent Search Semifinalist for her scientific research on the diets of lemon sharks in the Bahamas. She enjoys going to comedy shows and Yankees games.

Melissa can ride a unicycle.

Kairn graduated from Harvard in 2017 with an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering. He tutored fellow Harvard students in math and physics and volunteered as a tutor helping underprivileged elementary and junior high students in Boston. Kairn was very involved with the Black Men's Forum and played club basketball. He grew up in rural Illinois, enjoying the company of his three younger siblings, whom he continues to help with coursework. Using a personalized approach, Kairn genuinely connects with each student to…

Kairn spent his undergrad years working in a particle physics and cosmology lab on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope -- a billion dollar telescope under construction in Chile which promises to uncover the mysteries behind dark matter and dark energy.

Mark graduated Cum Laude from Duke University’s Engineering School with a double major Electrical/Biomedical Engineering degree and a minor in French; then graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Tulane Graduate School of Science and Engineering, where he earned two Masters in Engineering (Biomedical and Electrical), plus an “ABD” (all but dissertation) towards a PhD in Robotics Engineering. Mark began his career designing robots for factory automation with a specialty in computer vision with Texas Instruments. Subsequently, Mark graduated Summa Cum…

Mark builds his own super computers from scratch and is a self-taught pianist.

A cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and Phillips Academy Andover, Esther is a theatre director working in new play development. She is a patient, enthusiastic tutor committed to tackling her student's most challenging subjects and building their confidence levels. After seeing her own standardized test scores sky-rocket from great tutoring, Esther is especially passionate about tutoring SAT, ISEE, SSAT and SHSAT, and teaching effective test-taking strategies. In her free time, Esther…

Esther has seen over 50 Broadway shows. Ask her how to get the cheapest tickets!

Martin comes to Ivy Tutors Network with six years of tutoring and professional education experience. While studying Government at Harvard, Martin served for three years as a peer tutor, assisting fellow undergraduates with essay writing and comprehension of course materials. Following his graduation with honors in 2016, Martin began tutoring private clients for the SAT, ACT, SAT II subject tests, and AP exams. He also worked for a year as an American History teacher at Success Academy Charter Schools in…

Martin has been a Game Master in Dungeons & Dragons for six years and runs a continuous monthly campaign.

Cecilia has worked full-time and part-time for various tutoring agencies and learning centers, both one-on-one and in a classroom setting, for the past five years. She specializes in test prep, languages, and writing. Born and raised in Washington D.C., with a mother from Argentina, she grew up fluent in Spanish. In fact, she is trilingual in English, Spanish, and French, having taken French classes for twelve years. She graduated from Wesleyan University where she double majored in Theater and Psychology.…

I grew up with a pet rabbit that I walked on a leash around D.C.

Teresa is a born and bred New Yorker who is familiar with going to school in the city, having attended Stuyvesant. After graduating from Brown University, she moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands to work in education for the next 14 years. Teresa just earned her Masters in Developmental Psychology at Teachers College Columbia, where she focused on the social and neurocognitive processes of learning. She has helped countless students find success in everything from learning how to read, passing…

Teresa is a proud left-hander who once had the pleasure of teaching an entire class of left-handers (there were only three students)!

Eury is a dancer, choreographer and dance educator. Born in the Dominican Republic, he moved to the U.S. at age 4, and was raised just outside of Boston. He excelled as a student in high school and became a highly sought-after tutor throughout his four year tenure. He subsequently graduated with honors from Wesleyan University, where he received his B.A in Biology and Dance in 2016. He furthered his dance education at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,…

While in utero, during ultrasounds, Eury's legs were always crossed, so his parents didn't discover the sex of their baby until he was born.

Susan Heuman holds a Ph.D in History from Columbia University with a Certificate of the Russian Institute (renamed the Harriman Institute), where she was a Visiting Scholar. Previously, she earned her Masters in History, also at Columbia. Specializing in European, Russian and Soviet History, History and Film, as well as Genocide and Holocaust studies, her writings have been published by the Harvard University Press and major international academic journals. Professor Heuman has taught at NYU, Manhattanville College, and the Center…

Susan taught Russian and Soviet History at the University of Zambia for three years.

Dan is enjoying his 5th year tutoring algebra full-time in a NYC public high school -- making a total of eight years of happily tutoring middle- and high-school Math. Including 5 years of enlightening clients with Ivy Tutors. He is the go-to guru in Algebra Regents for ou school clients as well. With a college degree in Mechanical Engineering, he understands how all the Math ideas fit together, and how to demystify them, even for the math phobic. When he…

Space travel: You throw a ball up in the air; I'll hit it with my ball in mid-air. That's how spaceships manage to hook up, thanks to the power of MATH!

Chris majored in Modern European History in college, giving him a great background to tutor students in subjects like AP Literature, Language, US History, World History, and European History. Yet Chris is by no means limited to tutoring subjects in the Humanities. His experiences in college admissions advising helped him build up strong skills in test preparation and strategy, and he is one of the most popular tutors in our network for the SAT and ACT as well as the…

Chris lives in Upstate Manhattan with his wife, his son, and his hound dog.

Jenna is a PhD candidate in mathematics at NYU. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she double majored in mathematics and philosophy. As an undergraduate, she cofounded a student group that works to alleviate barriers to access in STEM fields at Yale. As a tutor, she seeks to create a supportive and comfortable environment for students to flourish. Math can be a daunting subject for many; Jenna assists students by presenting mathematical ideas in an approachable and intuitive way.…

Sophomore year of college, Jenna and her roommates ran a bakery out of their dorm."

Dana is working on her PhD in Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught Spanish language and literary theory classes and worked as the Teacher's Assistant for World Cinema classes. She also has a BA in Writing, and professional journalism, publishing and translation experience, and has published several essays on film, literature and art. Dana has also worked as a tutor in two university writing centers in addition to tutoring a range of subjects from Spanish…

She knows how to dance tango!

A Philadelphia native, Charlie is in his second year in the MD/PhD program at Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering. He graduated Yale University summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA in 2016 with a degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. At Yale, he served as president of the club running team and performed research on RNA triple helices. He was one of only ten members in his class inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as juniors. Upon graduation, he received the Russell Henry Chittenden…

As a Yale sophomore, Charlie discovered a new species of fungus in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Laura graduated Williams College, earning a B.A. in English and Art History & Studio Practice. As an undergraduate, she was a teaching assistant in the art department, and taught frequently at Hopkins Forest, leading children on ecology and history-themed field trips. Laura was also captain of the track & field team and an a capella singer. Based in New York City and Eastern Long Island, Laura loves encouraging students to explore their inquisitive and creative pursuits. She believes that an…

Laura runs a weekly writing group for her friends and colleagues, and is organizing a mentorship program for students historically unrepresented in the arts.

Noah, a born and raised New Yorker, graduated Stuyvesant High School. Scoring in the 99th percentile on his SATs, he attended the University of Wisconsin Madison and the London School of Economics. He is currently finishing up his Cornell Executive MBA. Noah has extensive experience tutoring for the SHSAT, as well as the SAT, ACT, NY Regents, and other pre-college exams. He is also experienced tutoring for middle school and high school courses in a variety of subjects, significantly raising…

Love to run in organized races, and aim to complete a marathon in 2021.

Raphael is a filmmaker, writer and animator, starting an MFA program in Creative Writing at NYU in the Fall of 2020. Born in California, he grew up in Costa Rica and attended a French lycée, so is fully fluent in Spanish, French and English. He graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University in 2015, where he tutored his peers in language learning, essay writing, and instructed inmates through the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education. After graduation, he taught Spanish in New…

Raphael was named after the 16th century Renaissance painter or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, depending on who is asking.

Portia is a filmmaker, crossword developer for the New York Times, and educator. Born and raised in New York City, she attended the Hewitt School where she started peer tutoring in 7th grade. She graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in 2014, majoring in Psychology and Classics. After graduation, she taught English in Spain before working as a counselor for the nonprofit Henry Street Settlement, where she tutored 9th and 10th grade students in all subjects, including prepping for the…

Portia has won several Harry Potter Trivia Championships and can offer tutoring for anyone interested in claiming her title.

Adam was born and raised in Lower Manhattan to two Egyptian immigrants. He went to the New York City Lab School in Chelsea for middle and high school and then attended Yale, where he studied Art and Graphic Design. At Yale he was involved with cutting edge research in virtual and augmented reality and has since developed a passion for emerging technologies. This spring he completed App Academy, a 16-week coding bootcamp with a less than 3% acceptance rate, which…

Adam was a teaching assistant for his high school math teacher's geometry class. He'd like to say hi and thank you to Ms. Weinstein for instilling in him a passion for math and problem solving.

Louisa graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Political Science with a focus on Latin American politics. She studied abroad twice, in Argentina and in Cuba, where she honed her Spanish speaking skills. After college, Louisa pursued her lifelong dream of teaching elementary school at a charter school in Washington, DC, where she grew up. After teaching 3 years there, she moved to New York City to earn a master’s degree in Childhood…

Louisa wrote a letter to Miss Manners when she was eight. She wanted to know if she needed to say, “Excuse me” when she burped silently. Miss Manners responded and published her letter in the newspaper.

Cara has over a decade of experience helping children with dyslexia and language-based learning differences learn to read and comprehend to their potential. She is passionate about supporting students and their parents as they move from academic overwhelm to calm empowerment. As the Executive Director of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, an intensive reading remediation clinic, Cara designed and implemented differentiated instruction plans, performed four-hour diagnostic evaluations, and presented lectures and case studies at education conferences and top neuropsychology clinics in NYC.…

Cara is working on publishing her first children's book

A graduate of Yale University (B.A.), Johns Hopkins University (M.F.A.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.), Rosanna is a poet and essayist whose work appears in publications like The Harvard Review, Best New Poets, The Hopkins Review, and 32 Poems. Her teaching experience over the years ranges from one-on-one tutoring (middle school and high school students) to developing courses and teaching classrooms of up to thirty students at Johns Hopkins University and instructing various subjects at a woman's facility on…

Rosanna ran into Steven Spielberg at J. Crew in New Haven.

Dennis, who grew up in Baltimore, is a natural teacher: he has been tutoring since 8th grade. This experience pushed him intellectually and resulted in broad, diverse intellectual interests. Perhaps, as a result, Dennis had trouble deciding on a major when he started at Cornell University; he ended up graduating with three majors (history, government and philosophy) and a 3.99 GPA. He later attended Yale Law School, where he focused on business and corporate law, and completed coursework at the…

Dennis has two adorable cats, including one who is under the mistaken impression that he is a dog -- he even plays fetch!

Grant’s success in AP courses and standardized test scores, including a perfect 36 on the ACT and 2300 on the SAT, earned him honors at the White House in 2016 as one of 161 U.S. Presidential Scholars by the Department of Education, and led him to be sought out as a tutor while still in high school. Graduating Columbia University, he has been accepted at Harvard Law School, starting in 2 years. He plans to focus on Environmental Law, a…

An avid Lorde fan, Grant gave the songstress a portrait he made of her and a KC “Royals” cake (which she then posted on Instagram) when he met her in Kansas City in 2014.

Appointed by Teach for America, Divya teaches special education at South Bronx Preparatory High School. She is a graduate of Baruch College, CUNY with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Psychology Honors Society, Psi Chi) and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Special Education for Adolescents, Grades 7-12 and Generalist Grades 5-9 at Relay Graduate School of Education (formerly part of Hunter College). She has tutored extensively for three years at Kumon Tutoring Center specializing in writing and reading…

Divya owns a salon with her family and gets to express her artistic side with elaborate henna designs.

A cum laude graduate of Yale University, Alex is a professional composer and music director in the NY theatre scene. At Yale, he wrote three musicals and toured the world with the Whiffenpoofs, Yale's all-senior a cappella group (and the oldest a cappella group in the country), for which he managed trips to Israel, Kenya, Zanzibar and Cape Town. Alex works as a teaching artist for Disney Musicals in Schools, an arts education initiative sponsored by Disney Theatrical Group, which…

In fifth grade, Alex won the Boys 50 yard breaststroke event at the New Jersey Swimming 10 & Under State Championships, becoming (for a time) the fastest ten-year-old breaststroke swimmer in NJ.

Shakir majored in Religion and minored in Philosophy and Pure Mathematics at the University of Vermont, where he graduated in 2015. During college he worked at the UVM Writing Center as a Writing Tutor for undergraduate students in all subjects. Before starting at NYU in their Religious Studies Master of Arts program in 2018, he worked for 3 years as an Academic Coach for students with autism, executive functioning challenges and other learning differences at Mansfield Hall -- a national…

Shakir has toured with multiple bands playing bass guitar and trombone around the U.S., U.K., Africa and South America. He also loves to give music lessons!

Michael, a recent graduate with honors of the University of Chicago, is now studying at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. He serves as Legislative Liaison at Bunker Labs, a national non-profit that empowers veteran entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. At age 14, he founded Points for Patriots, which he has expanded into Maroon Veterans Alliance, a nationally recognized non-profit. At UChicago, Michael served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Journal of Foreign Policy, and also served for…

Michael is (sadly) a lifelong New York Jets fan, and he traveled on the team plane in the 2012 season to an away game in Buffalo. Shockingly, the Jets won 27-11 that day. Coincidence?

Eri (nickname for Erica), a very friendly certified special educator, is experienced as both a lead classroom teacher and as a one-on-one tutor for over 5 years. Before earning her B.A. in Psychology from Brown where she worked as a teaching assistant, then her M.A. in Special Education from Teachers College at Columbia University, Eri attended high school at Friends Seminary in Manhattan. Always a bit of a geek, she scored 800 on both the SAT Math section and the…

Eri is fluent in reading and writing backwards, which might come in handy someday.

A New York native, Nicole attended Stuyvesant High School. After graduating from Binghamton University with a BS in Integrative Neuroscience and a minor in Comparative Literature, she scored in the 98th percentile on her MCAT. She attributes this success to a combination of invaluable help and hard work. Nicole is about to start her first year at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she currently works as a Research Technician, studying various behavioral processes. She also volunteers as a Crisis…

Asking Nicole if you can see some photos of her dog will make her feel like she just won the lottery!

Yoav moved to New York for Columbia Journalism School, and now writes freelance, yet loves math and science He has always enjoyed helping students understand a diverse array of new subjects and solve problems. Before journalism, he worked as an aide to members of the Israeli parliament, and in other teaching and research positions. At Tel Aviv University he majored in economics, graduating near the top of his class, and also studied accounting, philosophy and cognitive sciences. He spent a…

Yoav wrote a paper in game theory (economics) analyzing dating strategies. He is also a speechwriter, in two languages.

Originally from San Francisco, Justin has a Masters in dramatic literature from the Sorbonne (Paris) and an MFA in playwriting from Yale. For more than ten years, he has helped hundreds of students boost their scores as a test prep tutor (SAT/ACT, SAT/AP French) and boost their admissions prospects as a college application consultant and currently leads our popular College Essay Bootcamp. Yale, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Boston College, and NYU are some recent admits for happy students. He has taught writing…

His ears are different sizes.

Directly after graduating Brown University in 2014, with degrees in Political Science and Economics, Jordan was fortunate to work for the prestigious Boston Consulting Group. He spent two action-packed years advising Fortune 500 CEOs on their most demanding problems. After consulting, he worked as a Technical Architect at the distributed computing startup, Improbable, the first “unicorn” startup (meaning +$1B in value) in the UK. Throughout high school and college, he competed in ultimate frisbee, winning one national championship and one…

When he was young, Jordan had a splenectomy resulting in (no joke) 6 spleens. The same week Jordan developed this, 'House' had an episode about a patient with multiple spleens.

Ly Tran is a Vietnamese immigrant who grew up in New York City. She attended the Bronx High School of Science where she was co-founder and co-captain of an award-winning Robotics team called the Fe Maidens (Fe as in the atomic symbol for Iron). She majored in Creative Writing and Linguistics at Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude and phi beta kappa. Ly’s writing has earned her a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, a residency at the Yaddo Artist Colony…

Using the International Phonetic Alphabet, Ly wrote, designed and illustrated the first book ever written in Ikota, an endangered language with no writing system, spoken in the Gabonese Republic. It was a pop-up book called How Ihiako (The Ant Who Bites) Got Its Name.

Alejandro is currently a second year medical student at SUNY Downstate. As an undergraduate, he participated in two neuroscience summer research programs at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. At Haverford College, he had met all pre-med requirements, but got his B.A. in Economics. He wrote his thesis on “The Effects of Salary Heterogeneity on Team Performance.” He subsequently earned his Master’s degree in biophysics and physiology with a 3.8 GPA at Stony Brook University. Alejandro has a passion…

He has two slightly different shaped ears. When he runs with Apple earbuds, the right one falls out because his right ear must be a slightly odd shape!

Will graduated from Yale University in 2017 with a degree in Political Science with Distinction in the major and was awarded the Mellon Senior Research Grant for original research on Presidential Debates. While at Yale, he taught at the Wexler-Grant Elementary School, supporting classes of first- and fifth-graders. Following graduation, Will worked on political campaigns across the country, particularly focused on organizing and mentoring high school students. In late 2018, he returned to education and has been tutoring high school…

Will has worked on 5 different political campaigns across 4 different states!

Ayesha graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 2016, with a double major in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. She speaks three languages, a fact that reflects her experiences living (and teaching!) in two countries beside the US- India and Spain. In her eight years as an educator, she has worked with students of all ages and with wide-ranging academic goals and interests. She believes that every individual has the potential to be a curious and…

A lifelong lover of books, Ayesha started a library out of her bedroom in the fifth grade, along with a few friends. The only card-carrying member was one of their younger siblings.

Gill is a writer, musician and filmmaker born in New York City. He graduated with honors from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized study, where his thesis on Storytelling and the World Narrative was published in NYU’s research journal. He developed a holistic approach to education, studying across multiple disciplines, from playwriting at Tisch to business courses at Stern, to Gallatin’s own the Art of Play in Therapy. Tutoring the past two years, he has developed a unique framework for each…

While directing his first documentary feature film Gill lived with and trained under five world champion Beatboxers in Brooklyn. Gill is now a professional beatboxer himself, performing at venues around the city and teaching the art-form to a younger generation.

After attending Saint Ann’s in Brooklyn, Nick graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 2016, where he studied fine art, literature, and foreign languages. He served as a peer French tutor for the Yale Center for Language and also volunteered to tutor inmates at Connecticut Youth Prison. Since graduating, Nick has worked as a studio assistant for renowned artists and completed art residencies in London and Berlin. As a tutor, he helps a wide variety of learners of every…

When not tutoring, Nick can be found painting in his studio, reading German poetry, or eating canned sardines.

Nora has grown up in New York City and has been in education for 8 years. After graduating from Bank Street College of Education with a masters of science in general/special childhood education, she started as a classroom special education teacher and now is a student support coordinator at a charter school in the Bronx. As part of her role, Nora oversees, supports and navigates the special education process for families K-8. Nora has a lot of expertise in reading…

In a previous life, Nora did musical theater!