Fun Facts

One fun fact about myself is that I LOVE fun facts! I am a huge trivia nerd and thoroughly enjoy classic game shows like Jeopardy as well as interactive games like Trivial Pursuit. I also love horseback riding, dancing, and both classic and foreign movies. Casablanca is one of my favorites! Learning foreign languages is also a passion of mine, I am proficient in Italian, and am currently learning Turkish!

About Me

I am a 2010 International Studies graduate from dickinson-college">Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I am currently also employed through AmeriCorps as an adult ESOL instructor in Falls Church, VA. I plan on attending graduate school to earn my Masters in Foreign Service, hopefully from georgetown-university">Georgetown University. Before that, however, I hope to earn a Fulbright scholarship to teach English at the University level in Turkey. My ultimate goal is to work on refugee and immigrant issues in Washington D.C.

My first experience washington-dc">tutoring came when I was studying abroad in Bologna, Italy my junior year of college. I started by washington-dc">tutoring the professor’s children in Italian in all subject areas as well as in ESL. I then got a position with a local English school where I tutored both children and adults in English across all levels. When I came back to the US for my senior year I continued washington-dc">tutoring both children and my peers, one through the local YWCA afterschool program and the other through my college’s Writing Center. Since then I have worked through AmeriCorps both washington-dc">tutoring refugee children in English and Math and teaching adults English in my current position. I am a very dedicated washington-dc">tutor and am very excited to get to know and mentor my new students!

I have always had trouble with math. It started with a string of bad teachers in elementary school who gave me a faulty foundation for when I started taking on more challenging subjects like Algebra, Geometry, and eventually Calculus. It wasn’t until I met my Calculus teacher that my luck turned around. He gave me extra practice sets, patched up some of the holes in my previous math education, and encouraged me to come to class early to go over the material. It was through his and eventually my determination that I was able to get a 4 on the Calculus AP, something which I thought to be IMPOSSIBLE! While I know I will never be a mathematician, this formative episode in my life showed me that even if something is not destined to be your