Founder & Director
Standardized Test Prep
Integrated & General Math
Study Skills

Ashni has 12 years of experience tutoring students across top New York City schools in standardized test prep SAT, ACT, SHSAT, SSAT, ISEE, TACHS; and math through precalculus.

She helps students bring structure to demanding schedules and high-stakes testing by breaking material into manageable concepts and building the problem-solving strategies needed for confident execution.

Her approach emphasizes not just performance, but clarity in how students learn - developing critical study skills that will support them throughout their academic careers. She provides executive functioning support when needed to reinforce this skill-building and the results it yields.

Ashni has helped many students improve their test scores and grades by up to 215% percent. Her students have gained admission to Columbia, Brown, Georgetown, SUNY Binghamton, NYU, Oberlin, Tulane, and more.

Ashni holds a dual B.S. in Biology and Health Policy from Brandeis University.

Integrated & General Math
Physics

Michael holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Olin College. He 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.

He originally hails from Long Island, NY, and has lived in 6 states and abroad. In his free time he plays music and makes furniture.

Standardized Test Prep
General Math
English & Writing
French & Spanish
Gov & Political Science
College Essays & Counseling
Public Speaking & Debate

Carla is an experienced tutor and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2019, with a concentration in Government and a language citation in French. 

With over seven years of experience, she provides a heavily personalized and adaptable approach to test prep and academic support. Carla empowers students to improve their long-term academic performance and curricular retention, emphasizing critical thinking skills and sustainable study habits. She has helped many students improve their test scores and grades by up to 200%, ultimately gaining them admission into top schools (Cornell, Columbia, UPenn). 

Carla has worked with students on SAT, ACT, ISEE, SHSAT, and SSAT prep; college counseling; college essays; French; English; Spanish; math; government and political science; and public speaking and debate. She’s passionate about helping students grow into their fullest potential and develop their own unique voice. 

Carla also works as a film director, writer, and producer. She owns Mirror, Mirror Films, a production company focused on nuanced, character-based, and sociopolitically relevant storytelling. When she’s not tutoring or making movies, Carla enjoys taking dance classes, knitting, and watching movie marathons with friends and family.

English & Writing
World & US History

Shahid has over eight years of teaching experience in the Humanities at the university level (George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Mary Washington) and at the high school level (Friends School of Baltimore) in American history, world civilizations, religion, and comparative philosophy.

Shahid’s approach to tutoring is patient, discussion-driven, and academically rigorous. He especially loves helping students reignite a passion to learn for their own self-cultivation as he strongly believes that the study of history, art, and the humanities is always relevant to one’s own life and character. Shahid is passionate about guiding students through the research paper process, from finding a compelling topic to building a persuasive argument, and finds this to be one of the most rewarding parts of being an educator.

Shahid is currently a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying South Asian history.

He received his Master’s degree in Islam and Hinduism from George Washington University and Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont. As a lifelong student, Shahid is compassionate about the struggles that come up as a learner in academic settings.

In his free time, Shahid loves basketball, cooking, watching Marvel movies, and spending time with the neighborhood cats, dogs, and birds - though not all at the same time.