"I have over 20 years’ experience tutoring a wide range of ages and topics. My favorite subjects are biology, chemistry, and math, as well as the strategies involved in test-taking. As a tutor, my biggest strengths are my patience and enthusiasm. Understanding how the world works through the lens of science and math is an AMAZING process! I find it incredibly satisfying to watch students' eyes light up as they learn, and I work hard to make the process enjoyable.

My educational path has been non-traditional, but I hold four degrees, culminating in a PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford. Besides two decades of free-lance tutoring creating materials to help students grasp complex ideas, I’ve also worked in more formal settings as a teaching assistant, and more recently had the delightful opportunity to work as an adjunct lecturer covering a capstone molecular biology class and a neurogenetics course.

My excellence as a tutor stems from the combination of an enormous range of teaching experiences and my own personal progress through academia. Science has always come easily to me, and I often found the material so intuitive that I informally tutored classmates during the courses I took. On the flip side, mastering math topics required me to seek out a tutor, and I struggled in every math course before the pieces finally clicked into place for me partway through calculus. This blend of experiences gives me a unique empathetic perspective to help students facing similar struggles, while still having the depth and breadth of knowledge needed to aid their learning.

I want to be very clear that inclusivity is incredibly important to me. I recognize that many people are afforded fewer opportunities based on race, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, as well as many other axes of structural oppression. Because these factors contribute to students' learning, I'm happy to tailor my style to best suit the needs of each individual." less...