"Houston native, born and raised! I have a degree in English Literature/Minor in World Cultures from the University of Houston. My junior year of college, one of my professors recruited me to work at her writing center tutoring UH students. This was the moment I discovered teaching! In my senior year I taught freshman English, one of 4 undergrads in the position. After graduation I went right to work for a local tutoring company, quickly becoming their top consultant in college application essays and verbal test prep. Within a year I transitioned to running my own one-woman tutoring business, which has been my career for the past 15 years. Additionally, for the past 8 years I taught group reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar classes for middle and high school kids at a local learning annex. I now offer my own private group classes, which you can attend in-person or online.

I wasn't always a good student. I'm not like some of these tutors who graduated high school valedictorian, scored a 1600 on their SAT and then went right to Duke before becoming a tutor (although tutors like me likely helped them achieve those milestones, bless their hearts.) No, I went from a high school graduate at the bottom of the third quarter to a self-propelled Magna Cum Laude university graduate, simply because I applied myself to the task and taught myself study skills I'd never had before. That was when the opportunities started to come to me and success came like a rocket! And that's the deep knowledge that underpins my personality as a teacher, which I pass on to my students. A solid base of knowledge, plus the will and skill to work, leads to success. That's what I work to provide- both the knowledge and the motivation.

I'll happily travel to you if you are in the Houston area! Sometimes an in-person lesson does the job better than online can. Or you can come to my in-person classroom in the Spring Branch area. I even have group classes you can join - online or in person - for deeply discounted rates. So many options!" less...