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Maya is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia University. She understands first-hand the challenges of remote learning, participating in online courses this summer at Columbia and concluding the semester with a 4.0 GPA. Some of Maya's notable accomplishments include winning the Bills.com National Essay Contest in 2018 and being named a Captain within the Ron Brown Leaders Network. Originally from Los Angeles, Maya started working in childcare at age 10. She has over 5 years of…

Maya is a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and once watched every movie in a row over the course of 3 days.

Martin hails from “Lawn Guyland,” New York, though years in New England--and, more recently, Olde England--have rendered him more presentable to polite company. As a non-legacy student from a large, unexceptional school district, he received admissions offers from Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard, his alma mater, where he graduated with honors in 2016. Martin has nearly 7 years tutoring and 5 years consulting in college admissions and college essay writing. He has consulted in the…

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)!

Karen is an actress and collaborative theatre artist from Northern California, living in NYC. She received her BA in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University, where she also dove headfirst into American Indian Studies, Holistic Health, and Comparative World Literature, as well as feminist and anti-racist activism. Karen trained in Shakespearean, Contemporary, Physical, and Collaborative Theatre at the British American Drama Academy (Oxford), with Theatre du Soleil (Paris), and at Flying Actor Studio Conservatory (San Francisco). She also studied…

Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse Code, is Karen's ancestor.

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.

Sam is a native New Yorker and proud alumnus of Stuyvesant High School. In 2008, 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. He was also one of a handful of American students to participate in a student exchange program with the University of Havana in Cuba, where he spent two full semesters. Following…

Sam helps organize a film festival in a small town in southern Italy every summer.

Sam, a junior at Columbia, double-majors in History and Hispanic Studies. A passionate student of architecture and cities, he graduated from high school in three years and spent a gap year working at an affordable housing nonprofit in the South Bronx. At Columbia, Sam is the Editor-in-Chief of The Blue and White, the oldest magazine on campus, where he manages a staff of 60+ writers, editors, and artists. Last summer, he studied abroad in Mexico City as a Columbia Presidential…

An avid hiker, Sam has climbed all 46 of the 4,000+ ft. mountains in the Adirondacks—twice!

Calla is a born and raised Brooklyn native, who graduated from Saint Ann's School, where she was a National Merit Scholar. She loved the freedom that St. Ann's provided in her education, allowing her to take a wide variety of courses in all fields, with a particular fondness for math and science. She then attended Wellesley College where she continued taking courses from a vast liberal arts curriculum. She was able to rekindle her love of theatre, majoring in Theatre…

Calla has hiked all 46 high peaks in New York State!

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.

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.

Kailey is a French-American, born and raised New Yorker. She attended the LFNY, until the age of thirteen when her family moved to Paris. After graduating high school with a Baccalaureat diploma and honors in Literature, Languages and Philosophy, she moved back to the states to attend Wellesley College, where she majored in English and minored in Philosophy. In college, Kailey rediscovered her loves of singing and performing. She was an active member of the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society, a…

Kailey speaks four languages; English, French, Spanish and Italian.

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 Director of Strategic Initiatives at Bay Ridge Center-- a nonprofit community center in Brooklyn. 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 First Lady Michelle…

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?

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!

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.

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.