My career in education began at Trinity School at Greenlawn, a perennial US Blue Ribbon winning preparatory school in South Bend, Indiana - where in my second year I was honored with the Teacher of the Year award. After returning to the Pacific Northwest I joined the faculty of the Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma before leaving the formal classroom to raise my own family.

What followed was years of hands-on teaching experience across virtually every academic context, working with different ages, different subjects, different learning styles, and different needs. That breadth of experience sharpened my instincts for how individual students learn, where they get stuck, what it takes to help them break through.

Those experiences gradually evolved into the tutoring, test prep coaching, and college admissions consulting work I’ve done with hundreds of students, from kids who just need a boost in one subject, to exceptional students earning National Merit recognition and acceptance to Stanford, Princeton, Notre Dame, and the Ivy League.

Before all of this, I graduated from Seattle University’s Honors Program with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Philosophy. I live in Olympia with my family and stay involved in the community through local educational and civic causes.

Fair warning: my students learn my quirks quickly - - an insatiable Diet Coke habit, an occasional red licorice dependency, and an unnerving ability to quote Monk and Pysch episodes at length without warning.

If that sounds like someone you’d like in your student’s corner, drop me a line.