I am a writer, college admissions consultant, and long-time mentor to high‑achieving students. My students have been admitted to Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, Duke, and other highly selective colleges, and have earned some of the most competitive national awards available to high school students, including U.S. Presidential Scholars, YoungArts Awards, Regeneron Science Talent Search recognition, Coca‑Cola Scholarships, and Scholastic Art & Writing Gold and Silver Keys.

Having gone through highly selective processes myself—as both a student and a writer—I understand the stakes and how these decisions are actually made. I was a national YoungArts winner in high school, studied psychology at UC Berkeley on a full scholarship, graduating with honors, and earned my Master of Fine Arts as a Truman Capote Fellow, studying writing with Sigrid Nunez, André Aciman, Dinaw Mengestu, and Ben Lerner. I am currently writing a book about memory and perception, and I bring a working writer’s standards and a clear sense of what truly competitive applications look like to my work with students.

For more than a decade, I’ve worked in college admissions and writing consulting, helping students clarify what they care about, do serious thinking, and translate that work into strong applications and essays.