...I regularly develop and teach culinary medicine programs for health professionals and students. I also teach classes about healthy cooking for local companies and community organizations. I have also developed and analyzed recipes for food companies and published a series of cookbooks. (read more)
...I received a BA in international relations and political science from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Duke University, where I earned a merit scholarship. While at USC, I volunteered for 2 years in Los Angeles elementary and high school classrooms teaching conflict resoluti... (read more)
...I've done course work that relied on debugging in the Linux environment with gdb. I've also studied Linux internals in a graduate operating systems class. With a bachelor's and master's math and computer science education, I have taken and/or tutored a large number of classes that require or te... (read more)
...In addition to my years tutoring, I've lectured and TA-ed courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. I view tutoring as an effective supplement to in-class lectures, online coursework, etc. rather than as a substitute. Because we're working one-on-one, I can focus on engaging students in active learning, which is often missing in those other educational contexts. (read more)
...However, the most enjoyable aspect of tutoring geometry is seeing a student's knowledge expand and watching his or her confidence grow while mastering more difficult problems. I especially enjoy teaching pre-algebra as it is interesting seeing a student start to understand how to represent numbe... (read more)