Founder | Tutor
Standardized Test Prep
Integrated & General Math
Academic Skills

Ashni has 11 years of experience tutoring students across top New York City schools in SAT & ACT prep, math, reading comprehension, English grammar, and more. Her goal is to connect with each student and illuminate his or her own potential. Her approach to tutoring begins with understanding each student’s learning style, strengths, and areas for improvement.

Often, students are overwhelmed with their course load, extracurriculars, and the looming college entrance exams and application process. She works with students to break down subject material into digestible concepts, so they’re confident in their thorough and deep understanding of the material. Her mission is to help them learn how it is they learn, to find some ease in the process, and to empower them with tools they can apply to the rest of their academic careers and beyond.

Ashni holds a dual degree in Biology and Health Policy from Brandeis University. She is also a musician. She’s worked with students who attend top New York City schools, including SAR, Ramaz, Avenues, Spence, Brearley, Nightingale, Dalton, Bronx Science, The Lycée Français, and more.

Ashni offers tutoring in:

- Standardized Tests: SAT/ACT, SHSAT, SSAT, TACHS, Regents
- General and Integrated Math (Exeter)
- English Grammar & Reading Comprehension
- Academic Skills

Tutor | Administrative Coordinator
English Literature & Writing

Ashna Ali is an educator, administrator, and poet. They hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and have been awarded the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award. They have taught Literature, Language Arts, Writing Intensives, Cultural Criticism and Theory, Food Studies, and Classics at Queens College, City College, The New School, Townsend Harris High School, Bard High School Early College Manhattan, and beyond.

They are the author of the poetry collection The Relativity of Living Well (Bone Bouquet, 2024), and several academic articles and poems in several journals across the country. Currently, they teach in Queens College's Comparative Literature department and in Poetry Society of New York's workshop series.

Tutor
Integrated & General Math
Physics

Michael is an engineer who loves the way that math and science can open our eyes to patterns in the world around us. He draws on examples from nature and everyday experience to help make fundamental concepts relatable and intuitive to students whenever possible. There are often many ways to go about a problem, and he helps students notice something familiar in a problem that can lead them to a solution that resonates and feels like their own. He believes that learning anything can be a joy when it's approached at the right pace and in a natural way.

His interest in tutoring began in high school and has since worked with students grades 2-12 in various STEM topics including calculus, chemistry, and physics. He has taught a middle school summer program for off-road vehicle design, co-instructed a summer camp's woodshop, and was a teaching assistant for a sustainable design course at Olin College, where he received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

He originally hails from Long Island, NY, and has lived in 6 states and abroad doing engineering, food fermentation, building tiny houses, tutoring (of course), and more. In his free time he plays music and makes furniture.

Tutor
SAT & ACT

Rtusha Kulkarni has over 5 years experience tutoring in SAT & ACT prep. She was born in India and raised in Minnesota. She holds a B.A in Film Studies and minored in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, and her M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University.

She has always been drawn to teaching. What began as an after-school job to pad her weekly allowance in high school quickly turned into a passion that she has sustained ever since. She was a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses at Columbia University and tutored students in English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, Dance, and Film.

Rtusha’s current focus is ACT/SAT prep. She takes the time to understand a student’s interests, strengths, and anxieties and tailors her tutoring approach accordingly to create unique, engaging, and supportive lessons that builds students’ confidence (and sometimes we have a laugh while we’re at it too!).

In her free time, Rtusha loves to roller skate, cook, watch soccer, go to movie theaters, and belt Beyoncé songs when no one is around (no one should be around).