Genii AHn
Recently appointed as a Liaison Office and College Counselor at State University of New York (SUNY Korea), Mrs. Genii already making the name of herself as an independent college counselor and has successfully helped to educate hundreds of students where they are attending in Harvard, Pomona, U Penn, Williams, Cornell, Haverford, USC, Swarthmore, Boston College, West Point, etc. She has not only helped individual students, but has reached many others by presenting lectures at numerous area high schools, university, and graduate admission college process outlets, including Radio Korea 1540AM, the Korea Herald Newspaper, and LA Times.
Genii has developed an expertise in educational counseling and holds leadership positions at the North Star US Foundation, the Korean National Association Memorial Foundation, the Echo Foundation, the Global Achievement Project, Korea Herald, and LA Times. She has also run the campaign of Irvine City Council in 2016. Genii received a BA in Communications and an MBA with an emphasis in Accounting and Tax from Chapman University. Thereafter, she went on to study another in College Counseling Program at UCLA.Mrs. Genii is also a highly distinguished and valuable member of the California Association of School Counselors (CASC), the Higher Education Consulting Association (HECA), the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC), and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC).
Dr. Makoto Senoo
Dr. Senoo enjoys learning and teaching. His professional experience in science spans more than 30 years in the fields of organic chemistry, biomedical engineering, molecular and cell biology, immunology, oncology, and stem cell biology. Dr. Senoo started his professional career in pharmaceutical companies in Sweden and Japan, and moved to academic institutions, including medical, veterinary, and dental school in Japan and US. During this time, Dr. Senoo taught and interacted with about 2,000 students at various career stages from high school to college to post-graduate students. Dr. Senoo’s strong interests in learning and teaching have been fueled by many of his friends who express their science by art.
Professor at Boston University School of Dental Medicine
Former faculty at University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School
PhD in Medicine at Tokai University School of Medicine in Japan
MS in Biomedical Engineering at Keio University School of Science and Technology in Japan
BS in Organic Chemistry at Keio University School of Science and Technology in Japan
Dr. Brian M.Stoltz
Brian M. Stoltz was born in Philadelphia, PA. After spending a year abroad at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München, Germany, he obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry and B.A. degree in German from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA. Following graduate studies at Yale University in the lab of John L. Wood and an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard in the group of Professor E. J. Corey, he took a position at the California Institute of Technology. A member of the Caltech faculty since 2000, he is currently the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry and an Investigator of the Heritage Medical Research Institute. His research interests lie in the development of new methods for general applications in synthetic chemistry and biologically active small molecules. Among his many distinctions, Professor Stoltz has been the recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar and the E. J. Corey Awards from the American Chemical Society, the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) from the White House, the 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences for Chemistry, and was the 2015 recipient of the Mukaiyama Award by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. He was named the recipient of the 2018 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and in 2019 became a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Professor Stoltz has trained more than 200 students and postdocs, who have gone on to successful independent careers in industry and academia. In 2017, he was awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Caltech, the highest honor for teaching at the institute.
Professor at Caltech(California Institute of Technology)
PhD in Organic Chemistry at Yale University
MA.in Organic Chemistry at Yale University
BS in Chemistry at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dr. George E. Aninwene II
Dr. George E. Aninwene II, PhD has always been fascinated with how things function, why they were made to function that way, and novel innovations. This curiosity prompted his studies in biochemical and biomedical engineering. As he progressed in his studies he realized that he not only had a passion to understand the function behind form, but also a passion for understanding how devices, products, and systems could be improved, and how these innovations could be implemented in a meaningful way to enhance human life.
Dr. Aninwene is passionate about biomedical research, specifically translational research with clear paths to novel, groundbreaking healthcare products.
Project Scientist at UCLA- David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Urology
PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Northeastern University
MS in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Engineering at Brown University.
Dr. S.K. Bhatia
Dr. Bhatia is a licensed professional engineer and a physician. The goal of her work is to improve human health through the application of engineering analysis. Her background spans industry and academia, and her experience includes medical device and biotechnology product development, preclinical trials, clinical trials and intellectual property. Currently, she is focused on training of the next generation of biomedical innovators.
She engages students in product design for medicine, as well as clinical immersion experiences, so that students can apply their skills in entrepreneurship, business, science, engineering, and public policy to identify unmet clinical needs; predict human disease patterns; and prevent, treat and cure illness. In turn, she uses examples from clinical medicine, drug delivery and biomaterials in her teaching to illustrate concepts of thermodynamics, kinetics and transport phenomena. She believes that physicians and engineers must be motivated by societal benefit and therefore she is motivated by stopping the world’s leading killers.
At Harvard College, she was awarded the John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling of Harvard Students in 2012; the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring in 2013; and the Star Prize for Excellence in Advising in 2013. In 2014, she was chosen by the American Society for Engineering Education for the "20 Under 40" list of top twenty engineering educators in the nation under the age of 40. She was voted as a Harvard Yearbook Favorite Professor for three consecutive years in 2014, 2015, and 2016. In 2019, she was the invited keynote speaker for the Bioengineering Graduate Research Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021, she was an invited speaker for the EU Chapter of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program for the National Academy of Engineering.
Over the course of her career, she has taught students and worked with colleagues from diverse fields, including philosophy, history, linguistics, international development, political science, entrepreneurship, finance, art, science and engineering. She is committed to the idea that individuals from all backgrounds can contribute to medicine and she encourages prospective students from all academic backgrounds to contact her to discuss educational opportunities and research projects.
Faculty member at Harvard University and University of Delaware
Former Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University
Former Assistant Dean at Harvard Summer School
Professor at Drexel University College of Medicine
Director of Biomedicine Graduate Programs at Drexel University College of Medicine
M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
MS Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware
BS in Biology, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware
Dr.Elly Angélica Pichardo Tejada
Dr.Elly is a medical professional with a Doctor of Medicine degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) School of Medicine. She has a diverse range of experiences, including serving as a clinical research coordinator at Harvard Medical School, coordinating educational programs at Harvard T.H. CHAN School of Public Health, and holding positions as a general medicine practitioner, primary care physician, and volunteer tutor. With a strong commitment to research, volunteering, and improving healthcare, Dr. Pichardo has published studies on various medical topics, including oxygen therapy in patients with myocardial infarction, syndrome coronario agudo, and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Currently, she holds multiple positions as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, specifically in the Neuromodulation Center, as well as Coordinator for the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research Program (PPCR) at Harvard T.H. CHAN School of Public Health and Educational Program Coordinator for the Teaching, Learning, and Innovation program (TLI) at the Associação Instituto Scala. Her extensive expertise, dedication, and diverse roles highlight her valuable contributions to the medical field, encompassing clinical research, medical education, and driving positive change in healthcare.
Clinical Research Coordinator at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital – Harvard Medical School.
Program Coordinator at Harvard T.H. CHAN School of Public Health
M.D. at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) School of Medicine
DR. Paulo Eduardo Portes Teixeira
Dr. Teixeira is currently a full-time Research Scientist at Highland Instruments, a bioengineering company that develops rehabilitation technology for chronic medical conditions, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a senior teaching assistant at a leading international clinical research training program from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Teixeira is a director of international relations of SpineData, a start-up company who develops A.I. solutions for chronic rehabilitation care in Brazil, his home country. He is also the former director of research and continuing education at Wilson Mello Institute, a renowned orthopedic care institute in Brazil. He received a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from Ribeirao Preto University in Brazil, and then continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, earning a master’s in health and rehabilitation Science. Dr. Teixeira completed his PhD at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, and his post-doctoral training at the prestigious Neuromodulation Center Laboratory of Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a leading rehab. hospital in U.S. He has also lectured both at the local and national levels on a variety of topics pertaining to neuromuscular rehabilitation. Passioned about education and research, Dr. Teixeira has mentored several students over his career while also teaching at the different universities.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School
PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
MS in Rehabilitation Sciences with a concentration in Muscle-Skeleton Physical Therapy at University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Elizabeth Weckhurst
Elizabeth received her PhD in English from Harvard University in 2020. Her dissertation explored the career-long efforts of seventeenth-century English poet and revolutionary John Milton to fuse artistic, religious, and political experimentation into a set of sustainable, purpose-driven practices for collective action, civic education, and spiritual community-building. She’s presented research on figures ranging from canon familiars like Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell to less well-known figures like Anglican priest and theologian Richard Hooker, pioneering early American poet Anne Bradstreet, political activists and founding Quakers George Fox and Margaret Fell, and the abolitionist African American poet Phyllis Wheatley. She is passionate and always learning about poetry, aesthetics, philosophy, rhetoric, theology, and the afterlives of all these ancient traditions across cultures, languages, and national borders in the twenty-first century, especially in the realms of Anglophone literature, literary and cultural criticism, media studies, intellectual history, history of science, and critical theory (including gender theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical race theory.
Elizabeth has received multiple teaching awards for her years teaching college-level writing and research in the Harvard English and General Education departments. She’s currently helping to lead Dream’s efforts to build a Capstone research program prioritizing equity, diversity, and inclusion as a means of making college and career readiness accessible to all.
Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY New York City College of Technology
Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
PhD in English at Harvard University
MA in English at Harvard University
BA in English and Rhetoric at University of California-Berkeley
caleb shelburne
Caleb Shelburne is a teacher, researcher, and scholar working in the humanities with a particular focus on European and Middle Eastern history and culture. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, he studied History and Literature, an interdisciplinary field that exposed him to scholars from multiple departments and specialties and honed his research and analytical skills. He developed strong interests in postcolonial theory, French literature, and the history of transportation technology, bringing all three together in an interdisciplinary senior thesis on the history of the Orient Express. This thesis received a prize as the best in his department, and he graduated summa cum laude in 2018. He then completed a master’s degree in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, again receiving the department’s top prize for his dissertation on nineteenth-century literary and sociological perspectives on slavery in the Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard, where his research has ranged across the histories of medicine, technology, and the environment. Caleb has served as the editor-in-chief of Harvard’s undergraduate history journal, Tempus, organized a conference and exhibition on the history of French women writers, and conducted research in five languages at archives in France, England, Turkey, and the United States.
Ph.D. History of Science, Havard University (PhD Candidate)
M.Phil., with distinction, Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge
B.A., summa cum laude, History, and Literature, Harvard University
Peter A. Campia, Esq.
Attorney Peter A. Campia is experienced in all phases of Estate Planning, Elder Law and Tax Planning. His law practice encompasses Estate Planning, Tax Planning, Probate and Estate Administration, Medicaid Planning, and Guardianships and Conservatorships of the Elderly. Attorney Campia received his Juris Doctorate with Distinction from Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Masters in Tax Law (LLM) from Boston University School of Law, Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University. He is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Campia has been an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA since 2007 where he teaches Wills, Trusts & Estates and Elder Law to second and third year law students. Attorney Campia developed the curriculum for the Elder Law course which was a new course for Northeastern University School of Law. Attorney Campia previously taught at Fisher College in New Bedford, MA where he taught Business Law and Law and Ethics in Health Care Administration to students pursuing their undergraduate degrees. Attorney Campia was the recipient of Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide 2022 Professional of the Year in recognition of excellence, dedication and success in Elder Care and Estate Planning. Attorney Campia currently serves on the Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law Alumni Board of Directors. Attorney Campia previously served on the Board of Directors for the Town of Yarmouth, MA Council on Aging and the Board of Directors for Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.
Adjunct Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law
Doctorate in Masters in Tax Law(LLM) at Boston University School of Law
Doctorate in Juris Doctorate at Ohio Northern University School of Law
MA in Business Administration (MBA) at Suffolk Univeristy
BA in Business Administration at Northeastern University
ROckwell anyoha
Rockwell is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University studying behavioral neuroscience and evolutionary biology. He is particularly interested in the underlying mechanisms that explain differences in animal behavior. Many of the technical skills required for his research were gained in college when he studied physics, a field that formalizes how to describe natural phenomena. After college, he joined a biomedical and genomics research center where he studied gene regulatory elements. It was here, through constant interaction with intelligent, passionate, and patient colleagues and mentors, that he learned the fundamentals how to do science. When he is not doing research, he spends time with his family (including his dog Mochi), he tries stay active (He loves to play soccer and go on hikes), and he engages in other projects or fulfilling activities (especially coding projects and teaching).
Phd in Neuroscience and Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
MA in Neuroscience and Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
BA in Physics at at Columbia University
Dr.Nolla Haidar
Dr.Haidar is a passionate educator and marketer. Her research interests focus on consumer and organizational behavior, human resources management and marketing. Currently, she is a lecturer at Boston University where she teaches graduate students market research. Her goal is to help students develop professional skills through creating academic engaging learning experiences in an environment that fosters creativity, success, and perseverance. She pursued her Ph.D. in Management at Royal Holloway, University of London and has presented her work in many influential conferences such as AIB and EURAM. She is an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). Over the course of her academic career, Dr. Haidar taught various business courses focused on marketing, management, and sociology. She has taught around 300 undergraduate students from various cultures and backgrounds. Her teaching method is experiential by nature, and it focuses highly on motivating students to bring their ultimate best to the surface. Realtime and factual examples are her key goal to explaining complex methods and terminologies to her students.
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University
Ph.D in Management at the University of London
MSc in International Retail Marketing at University of Surrey,
BS in International Business at Lebanese American University
BA in Political Sciences/International Affairs at Lebanese American University
MAURICE TANG
Maurice is currently a postgraduate student in the Neurology Department at Yale University. He has been tutoring students all around the world for more than 6 years, elaborating curriculum details of Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, SAT/ACT, TOEFL, etc. I am proficient in scientific research with 3 years of Laboratory experience. He is intrigued in Neuroscience research in terms of the modulation of neural circuit, viral constructs, and characterization of neural cellular morphology. Lately, he has been working on projects that promote the utilization of AI and Machine-learning in Neural Morphology, investigating the potential causes of the devastating Alzheimer Disease. He is also trained in 3D-modeling, with a proficiency in 3D rendering software such as Unity, Blender, etc., with the hope to refine concurrent neural atlas.
Postgraduate Associate in Neurology at Yale University
BA in Biochemistry and Digital Media at Hamilton College
Dr. alicia broggi
Alicia Broggi was awarded her doctorate in English from the University of Oxford in 2018. Her doctoral thesis explored the place of religion in the South African Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s writings. She has caught on writing, research methods, and English literature to undergraduates at Oxford University and at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. However, she first began tutoring as an undergraduate. Over the years she has tutored high school, university, and graduate students in critical reading, writing, and research.
PhD in English and literature research
Dr. roberto aguilar
Dr. Aguilar has a certification in sequence analysis and genomics through Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate through the Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland State University. His research interests lie in the development of emerging technologies for cancer prevention, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He brings with him extensive research experience that has afforded him the opportunity to manage multiple research projects which his students have published and/or presented at professional conferences such as Bio-IT, the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists, and the American Association of Immunologists. Dr. Aguilar is also a current adjunct professor at Purdue University and the University of the Sciences where he teaches undergraduate genetics and graduate genomics, respectively.
PhD in Regulatory Biology with a specialization in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland State University.
PMC in Sequence Analysis and Genomics, Johns Hopkins University.
Chris burns
Financial advisor with a wide range of experience in planning, trading, portfolio management, and research. For the first 11 years of his career, he traded US equities and commodity futures, primarily cotton, the fabric of our lives! He also got his MBA at Chicago Booth during this time. Since Booth, he worked for providers of online financial research systems before becoming a financial advisor in Mexico City.
He is currently with an international broker, Holborn Assets, offering clients solutions for their personal and professional needs, including investments in international capital markets, land (US), real estate (UK), and global citizenship (passports/citizenship). His hbbies include running (preferably trail), playing soccer, yoga, electronic music (DJ as a hobby), and travel.
MBA in finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
BA in Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business Administration
Dr. Joy Harris
Dr. Joy Harris has a diverse career within the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech). She currently holds joint appointments in the Vice Provost Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Within OUE, Dr. Harris serves as Director of DEI Initiatives in Undergraduate Education. Her work focuses on closing equity gaps in the learning experience of undergraduates at GA Tech. Through her appointment as a faculty member in ECE, she serves as a teacher, mentor, and research advisor to undergraduate students. Within ECE, Dr. Harris focuses on lowering barriers and increasing access to all opportunities within the department. She also serves as faculty director for the Engineering for Social Innovation (ESI) Center, where she creates the space for students to use their technical skills for positive social impact. As ESI director, she leads undergraduate service breaks to developing countries; she operates a graduate leadership and development program; and she helps her students increase the operating capacity of non-profit organizations. Dr. Harris formerly served as faculty director of the Global Leadership Living and Learning Community (LLC), where she taught a course in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and she helped her first-year LLC students to successfully integrate into the GA Tech community. Dr. Harris also served as one of the Associate Directors for the CREATE-X entrepreneurship initiative. In this capacity, she helped students increase their entrepreneurial confidence through designing their own career paths and by launching startups. Through all her roles on campus, Dr. Harris enjoys teaching and serving thousands of students throughout the academic year.
Director of DEI Initiatives in Undergraduate Education at Georgia Institute of Technology
Director of Engineering for Social Innovation Center at Georgia Institute of Technology
Faculty at Ray C Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
BA in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Eric Gitari
Eric Mawira Gitari is a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate at Harvard Law School where he’s researching and writing on international law and human rights, comparative constitutional law and transnational social networks. Eric received his LL. B degree from the University of Nairobi in 2007 and an LL.M degree from Harvard University in 2018 (degree waived upon admission into the SJD program).
Eric has worked as an LL.M Advisor and Writing Instructor with the Harvard Law School Graduate Program. He’s also worked as a researcher with the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, where he has been working with the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (IESOGI). In 2019, Eric worked with the West Africa regional office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to monitor, promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons in the Gambia and Senegal as a Chayes International Public Service Fellow of Harvard Law. In 2021, he worked with The Eagles for Life- an LGBTIQ group in Kisii, Kenya as a Harvard Law School Summer Public Interest Fellow.
SJD at Harvard Law School
LLM at Harvard Law School
DR. STEPHEN YOUNG
Dr.Stephen has been fascinated by literature, language, and ideas, and this has led him to an enriching and exciting academic career. He studied philosophy at the University of British Columbia (BA), the University of Toronto (MA), and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (PhD). He also earned his JD at Harvard Law School. After earning his PhD, he taught at UCLA, in both the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law, and then at San Francisco State University as a Visiting Professor of Law and Philosophy. Throughout his teaching career,his most memorable and cherished experiences have involved working with individual students, coaching them to produce their best work and encouraging them to follow their ideas wherever they lead. Accordingly, he is excited to have the opportunity to work with bright, motivated students as an Instructor for Admission AG.
PhD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor
JD from Harvard Law School
MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto
BA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia
Paul Choi
Paul Choi is CTO of Poom Inc where he is in charge of software and product development of mobile and web applications. Paul received his bachelor from University of California San Diego in Computer Science. Upon graduating, he worked at Qualcomm and Amazon as senior software engineer before joining Poom as co-founder. Paul always had passion for teaching as he taught computer science students in college, and continue to nurture young professionals at his company.
During his spare time, he likes to watch and read about how teaching and leadership skills effects those around them. Paul's long term goal is to continue to invest in younger generation to strive, especially in technology field.
Formal Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
BA in Computer Science from University of California, San Diegoo
Alex Toliver
Alex Toliver attended The Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate and graduated with a BS in Systems Neuroscience with a minor in bioethics. Alex also completed a minor in music at the Peabody Conservatory. While attending undergrad, Alex began tutoring math, science, and English.
Alex completed a post baccalaureate fellowship in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School.
One of Alex’s greatest experiences as a tutor was serving as an ESL tutor for the adult staff members at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. Alex was born and raised in California and received early education from many educators that learned English as a second language. This greatly shaped Alex’s lifelong pursuit to make education as accessible as possible.
Alex earned their MS in Neuroscience from the Brown University. While pursuing a doctoral degree in Neuroscience , Alex has earned a Teaching Certification from Brown University. In the past few years, Alex has strengthened their pedagogical practice by teaching Math, Science, Standardized Test Prep, and Computer Programming to students.
Alex is ecstatic to pursue their pedagogical passion of open and accessible education by serving as an instructor and mentor with Admission AG!
MS in Neuroscience at Brown University
BS in System Neuroscience aJohns Hopkins University
Dr. William Grimm
Will’s design leadership spans more than 20 years of professional experience in architecture and design. He brings a focused interest in mentoring and teaching the practice of architecture and the limitless opportunities the profession can provide. Will’s most influential work came during his time living abroad and working as Design Architect at William McDonough + Partners. His most notable projects include North Drogheda Environs Master Plan (2005 Irish Planning Institute’s Excellence in Planning Award), Park 20/20 Cradle-to-Cradle inspired working community (2010 ASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning), and Central City Concern, Eastside Health Center (2018 National AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Award).Will holds a professional Bachelors degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, where is he received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize for his research and design work in Kumasi, Ghana, Africa. He has taught and lectured at Columbia University, The Earth Institute, Cooper Union, University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and Portland State University.
MS at Columbia University School of Architecture
Dr. Eva Kaye-Zwiebel
Eva Kaye-Zwiebel received her PhD in Political Science from Princeton University in 2011. She is passionate about applying systematic research methods to real-world measurement, as exemplified by her extended dissertation field work in Northern Kenya and her post-graduate work in non-profit program evaluation. Her interests encompass qualitative and quantitative methods (for example, ethnography on the one hand and data analysis on the other). She has taught undergraduate courses about African Politics, and about natural resource management organizations, at Occidental College and USC. She enjoys working with students on their research projects, with an emphasis on learning the form and style of successful oral and written communication.
BA, Yale University (Literature, International Studies)
PhD, Princeton University (Political Science)
Ritchie ju
Ritchie is a passionate architectural and urban designer fascinated by the built environment. He strives to make a high impact in sustainability, resilience, and social equity through all his works and ventures. He completed his 5-year Bachelor of Architecture professional degree from Carnegie Mellon University. After undergrad, he pursued his Master of Science in architecture & urban design from Columbia University. Post graduate school, he worked at Lyft as a Bike Share Planner to bring a successful and transformative micro mobility system to all 5 boroughs of New York City. Currently, he has decided to pursue his own endeavors through real estate development and entrepreneurship. He is the Co-founder of NowCity (a sustainable real estate development start-up) and Super Wishers (Eco-friendly plush toy brand). At NowCity, he holds the position of partner & head of design which oversees all aspects of project development, project delivery and is particularly interested in incorporating compelling public spaces and programming into the projects, focusing on the intersection of sustainable urban design and technology.
MS in Architecture & Urban Design at Columbia University
BA in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Kesi Augustine
Kesi is a passionate writer and educator. Her doctoral thesis focused on the importance of diversifying children’s literature for underrepresented African Americans. Kesi has served early college environments and tutored for the SAT among diverse populations. For the past two and a half years, Kesi helped The Bard Sequence to begin a new early college academy in New York City. During her teaching she has received an award for equity and inclusion. Kesi is also a professional children’s book writer, a creative writing teacher, and a curriculum designer. Kesi is excited to learn and feels a sense of fulfilment from helping students to express their voices.
PhD in English from New York University
MA in English from New York University
BA in English from Williams University
Sarah Chung
Sarah’s professional experience is a testament to her entrepreneur spirit, as her background covers Politics, Finance, and Retail. She started her career as an Analyst at J.P. Morgan to then join the presidential campaign for Hillary Clinton. Her return to finance focused on analytics at The Capital Group, where she launched a Data Science program to educate her colleagues basic coding. From there, she joined Abercrombie & Fitch as a global omnichannel strategist. Sarah has experience in project portfolio management, business case development, and long-range planning across DTC e-commerce, global markets (Tmall), and supply chain areas. She has led members in IT in cross-organizational projects to deliver global results, focusing on digital & operational localization efforts in various countries. At the center of her experiences lies passion to innovate, challenge, and push the norm for not just herself but future generations. She has continuously mentored and taught high school students to think outside the box and follow their passions. Sarah is currently studying at the Wharton School for her MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s double degree in music and economics at Scripps College and Claremont McKenna College as a Robert Day Scholar.
MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
andrew Guinness
Andrew is a biologist with several years of experience in higher education and research. He completed his bachelor’s in Biology and Insect Science at Iowa State University and a master’s in Molecular Biology at the University of Notre Dame. He has co-developed a research-based course and serves as an instructor of Biology in the Des Moines Area Community College System. His research interests include insect-borne disease, mathematical modeling of biological and ecological phenomena, and STEM education. Andrew’s teaching and research combine molecular and systems biology, ecology, mathematics, statistics, and data science. His teaching heavily focuses on inspiring mechanistic understanding of key concepts and building a toolbox of techniques to answer questions in a multidisciplinary way. As a research mentor, Andrew focuses heavily on building translatable skill sets and integrating content knowledge and analytical pipelines.
MS in Molecular Biology at Notre Dame University
Dr. Tatiana prytkova
She has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of computational structural biology and chemistry. She worked as a Professor of Chemistry at Chapman University and Principal Scientist in pharmaceutical company Cloud Pharmaceutical. She worked on many different research projects. She successfully collaborated with scientists from many experimental groups. She has published twenty research papers in peer reviewed research journals including Science, Neuroscience, Journal of Pharmacology. She presented her research on many scientific conferences .
PhD in Chemistry and Computational Science (Duke University)
Amandeep Rathee
After receiving his Bachelor's in Computer Science in 2017, Amandeep decided to deep dive into the world of data science and AI. Realizing teaching is the best way to learn something, he joined an EdTech startup in India where he created graduate-level data science and AI courses. He also supervised students from the MS in Machine Learning & AI program in their thesis projects. After working at this startup for two years and seeing the graduate program becoming one of the best AI programs in the country, Amandeep decided to pursue a Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science from Duke University and specialized in Machine Learning.He is passionate about teaching and has a strong background in programming, data science, machine learning, and AI.
MS in Data Science at Duke University
DR. ANN THUY-LING TRAN
Ann earned her bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA, where she was also an academic peer counselor. Currently, she is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature Ph.D program at UCI where she anticipates to be a university professor. With iEDU, she teaches preparatory classes for AP Literature and Composition, AP Language and Composition, and courses for ACT & SAT, and SSAT& SSIE exams for English.
PhD in Literature at UCI
MA in Comparative Literature at UCLA
BA in English Literature at UCLA
Dr. Metasebya Solomon
Dr. Solomon is an accomplished research scientist with demonstrated success in biomedical R&D and Master’s-level teaching. She worked in various medical device industries where she utilized her strong project management skills and capacity to work and interact in an interdisciplinary team allowed her to lead and manage Urology and Oncology related studies supporting new product development life cycle process and meet the projects’ goals. Dr. Solomon’s PhD focused on developing optical-nuclear imaging platform that will facilitate the next generation pre-clinical and clinical multimodal imaging for cancer diagnosis and therapy monitoring as well as pharmacokinetic analysis for determining the interaction of injected dyes or therapeutics with different organs in healthy and diseased states. As she clearly believes on an early foundation to the new generation intellectual development and exposure to the BME field as well as the establishment of solid infrastructure and institutions to tackle the lack of skilled biomedical engineers in Ethiopia; she initiated her involvement with the Center of BME, within Addis Ababa University as a guest lecturer in biomedical design skills education and mentoring of BME master students with the same standard as their US counterpart. Currently, Dr. Solomon is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of D-10 Therapeutics Inc., bridging her deep understanding of academic research with the healthcare research industry. She leads the strategic engagement with our academic and industry research collaborators for meaningful outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease research. Her aim is to achieve this by bringing the influences of real-world evidence in design solutions to improve treatment effects and outcomes. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in Biomedical Engineering with digital applications focus.
PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
BS in Biomedical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin
dr.Nadine Sterling
Nadine Sterling is a research scientist, writer and mentor. She has conducted research at Stanford University School of Medicine investigating the physiological state of the placenta through monitoring maternal exosomes by the application of Mass Cytometry. During her time at Stanford she was awarded the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) where she was given support as a mentored postdoctoral scholar through her research experience at a teaching-intensive institution in an effort to become a more well-trained biomedical scientist. This award helped her develop with the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue independent academic teaching and research career. Dr. Sterling also conducted research as a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied the interactions of native, recombinant and synthetic adhesive peptide thin films to metal-oxide surfaces as well as developing a pH-sensitive surface for the detection of pH changes during marine adhesive plaque formation underwater.
PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology with chemical engineering and marine biotechnology at University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Stanford University
Albert Teplitsky
Albert has the skills and expertise in Data Science and Machine Learning. He also has a passion for teaching math and computer science. He has been teaching many high school and college students with his varying knowledge and experience. He enjoys using the knowledge and experience he has gained to help teach and support students on how to achieve their full potential in the IT industry. He has completed his Masters's in Applied Machine Learning at Columbia University. This curriculum has empowered and provided him with further insight on how to both learn and also teach at an Ivy level. He is looking forward to helping students achieve their greatest potential.
MS in Applied Machine Learning at Columbia University
MS in Computational Chemistry at University of California, Irvine
BS in Chemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara
Sarah hwang
Throughout her years as an undergrad, Sara worked as the Head Administrative Assistant at a test prep center where she assisted the Branch Director in planning for upcoming programs as well as counseling students on academic inquires and educational course of action. After she earned her bachelor’s degree in English from CSUF, she continued to work in the education field as an Assistant Director at an educational institute where she held consultation sessions for parents and students to address their concerns regarding their middle/high school career and to resolve conflicts. At Admission AG, she holds 1:1 counseling sessions on a monthly basis to monitor students’ academic progress and assist them with the development/update of their educational plan.
MA in College Counseling at USC
tiffany kang
Violinist Tiffany Kang made her solo debut with the San Fernando Valley Orchestra at age eleven and has since gone on to perform in Carnegie Weill Hall debut at age twelve as a winner of the American Protégé International Strings Competition. In 2013, Tiffany won third prize at the 2013 Schoenfeld International Competition and gave a recital at the American Jewish University’s Gindi Auditorium within the same year. She was also named a finalist of the Mondavi Young Artists Competition in 2011. More recently, Tiffany won the LACO-Colburn Conservatory Strings Mentorship Mock Audition in 2019 and performed a concert cycle with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Jaime Martín. As an avid lover of chamber music, Tiffany has had the privilege to collaborate with distinguished artists Frank Morelli at the Sarasota Opera House, and Scott St. John as part the Colburn Chamber Music Society’s Beethoven 250 series. Since beginning her bachelor studies in the Colburn Conservatory, Tiffany’s devotion to and appreciation for classical music also extends to Baroque music. Her studies while in the Colburn Baroque Ensemble has led her to join Kontrapunktus, a chamber orchestra dedicated to performing Baroque repertory. Born and raised in Southern California, Tiffany studied with Sam Fischer, Danielle Belen, the late Alice Schoenfeld, and Martin Beaver while in the Colburn CSPA and Academy. Tiffany is currently in her fourth year of bachelor studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, under the tutelage of Mr. Martin Beaver. During the pandemic, Tiffany has taken the greatest joy out of teaching young students just beginning to begin violin studies. She is focusing her efforts on building her studio and hoping to impart the same inspiration and love for classical music she received as a child.
MA in Violin Performing at Colburn School