Fun Facts

I love arts and crafts and spend lots of time knitting, sewing and beading. I also love to paint, draw and do photography. I love dogs and have four dogs at home! I also love to travel and am volunteering teaching students in Nepal this June.

About Me

I am a rising sophomore at New York University studying Anthropology and Public Health. I hope to work for and eventually run my own nonprofit. Although I feel very passionately about the right to health care, I would love to work for a nonprofit that also targets homelessness, education or a range of other social issues.

My manhattan">tutoring experience includes both academic studies through my High School's National Honors Society, and art manhattan">tutoring through the National Art Honors Society. I tutored fellow high school students in their academic studies and elementary school students with for their art classes. My mother is a third grade teacher, and I have also worked with her students in on their reading-comprehension/new-york/manhattan">reading comprehension, pronunciation and writing skills. Furthermore, I coached gymnastics for three years which has given me experience with helping students develop their motivation and persistence.

As a very enthusiastic and optimistic person, I like to congratulate the students on their effort and the skills that they have learned, and approach the concepts they still are struggling on with constructive suggestions for improvement. I also have found that it is most effective to lead the students to a correct answer and allow them to draw the final conclusion for themselves, as opposed to directly telling them the answer. If students can understand how or why a math formula or writing technique works, they are more likely to remember and implement it on their own. Furthermore, I love pneumonic devices and memory tricks to help students memorize facts.