Fun Facts

Some fun facts about myself is that I was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and I love traveling and writing books.
I have lived in Italy and Spain and travelled to countries like Germany, Mexico, Canada, India, China, Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates.
I love to cook and watch the Food Network. I am also working on my second novel. It is a science-fiction novel set 2000 years in the future.

About Me

I recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University and I am seeking part-time and full-time positions as I take the year to apply to graduate school in English with the hope of becoming a professor in creative writing and the publishing process.
I have worked at publishing companies all throughout my time in college. Editing and writing of all genres is my career calling but I have also enjoyed sharing my skills with others.
While I was in college i worked for Tsehai Publishers, Here Media, and was the Editor in Chief of a literary magazine called the Los Angeles Miscellany.

I have tutored in several capacities in the past. I have tutored college students who were struggling in their English College Writing Courses. I have given editorial instruction to high-school seniors who have struggled with their admissions essays. I have also tutored middle-school and elementary school students in Spanish, English writing literature, History, and Math.

My approach to tutoring is adaptive, unique and focused one reinforcement strategies.
I always try to gauge the interest level the student has in the subject matter and from their--in conjunction with their personality and learning style--I try to invent an innovative approach to make the subject matter more interesting to them. I am not over-bearing as I try to help my students see that they absorbed the material and it is not being constantly forced down upon them.
Specifically with English, I try to use a staged process. At the end, I like to look at a sample of writing before we started and a sample from the end of our time together. With these, I then pinpoint the most drastic points of positive improvement and look at the areas that can still be improved in the future.
I always want the student I am tutoring to be writing or studying something that they find interesting in some way. If that means taking the extra time to be a little more inventive in how I present the material, that's ok with me, as long as their is positive improvement in the end.