Fun Facts

I am a Team Captain with the American Red Cross for the Disaster Action Teams (DAT), we help people after disasters like fires, floods or tornadoes to obtain food, shelter and clothing. During the last two years I have won the Presidents Volunteer Service Award at the Gold level for completing over 500 hours of work with the Red Cross (nights and weekends). I enjoy reading.

About Me

I graduated from Emory University in Atlanta but am currently a Masters Student at the dallas">University of Texas in Dallas with a 3.197 GPA in Molecular and Cell Biology. I have been an EMT - Intermediate as well as speaking and reading in Spanish.

I have tutored high school students that contacted the department (MCB) after being referred by our dept. Secretary Nancy Yu. I have been a Teaching Assistant for two semesters each in Anatomy and Physiology I and Anatomy and Physiology II as well as teaching students new to the MCB program how to read scientific papers. I have experience teaching and learning under a variety of conditions from formal classroom work to one-on-one work in informal settings with students if they were more comfortable. Finally I have experience explaining how to work through the Red Cross bureaucracy to people who have just had a house fire or other disaster so I am comfortable working with people who are under a great deal of stress.


Each student has a series of needs and preferences unique to them. What works with one student can be useless or even counterproductive with another. Part of dallas">tutoring is to find what works best for a particular student while still covering the material that the student needs to learn. Some students are their own saboteurs, having convinced themselves that they cannot learn. A large part of the first stages with them is building up their self-esteem via small incremental gains that they can see and measure so they know that not only can they learn but have something real and tangible to point to when the work becomes more difficult.