Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, currently matriculated, Doctor of Medicine. Columbia University, Certificate in Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Studies. Williams College, 2013, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. The Masters School.
Originally from Westchester County, Emily is familiar with the rigorous demands of a independent school in New York: academic, extracurricular, social, emotional, and beyond. She attended the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where she chose AP classes in Calculus BC, US History, Biology, English Language and Composition, and English Literature. Having studied the viola for many years, she was a member of the orchestras at both Masters and Hoff-Barthelson Music School. She also played Varsity Soccer and was a member of the Model UN.
Emily went on to attend Williams College, where she was just as driven academically and passionate about her wide range of extracurricular activities. During her time at Williams, she took advantage of what a liberal arts education could afford her, quenching her intellectual thirst with courses in a wide variety of areas such as International Relations, Comparative Politics, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Public Health, Economics, Statistics, and French Language. She continued to play the viola, taking lessons and playing in the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, and she continued to play soccer. On top of all of this, she sang in an a capella group called the Accidentals.
During college, Emily decided to study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, focusing on economic and political development policy and shadowing a member of Parliament. It was during this year that she really discovered her love of teaching and working with children. She began by coaching high school students in the Township Debating League, then moved onto Machakos, Kenya, where she taught at a local elementary schools via the Help Kenya Project. Planning her own lessons and curriculum, she taught math, computer literacy, and English.
After her return to the U.S., Emily continued to be a mentor and educator while still a student at Williams. Even before her year abroad, she had already created and run a workshop called Science for Kids in Williamstown, where she had taught local elementary school children and collaborated with parents. The summer before her senior year, her appetite for adventure took her to San Diego to serve as a coach for refugee youth, also acting as a mentor and teaching them to connect success in the classroom with success on the field. During her senior year, she became a Teaching Assistant at the Steeples Program, a day school for disadvantaged local youth, then a Teaching Assistant in the Williams College Japanese Department, facilitating weekly conversation classes.
After her graduation, Emily continued to follow her calling: helping others. She decided to become a doctor, returning to school to earn a Certificate in Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Studies at Columbia. She is now a student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Since then, she has been tutoring and teaching extensively in New York City. Some of her recent experiences include being a homeschool math teacher for elementary school students, planning weekly curricula and submitting quarterly reports while working with a teaching team. She has also excelled as an MCAT instructor for premedical students, teaching classes in math, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, and research methods, providing lectures on test content, and administering in-class exams.
Emily understands that the student's motivation and interest level are just as critical to academic success as test-taking strategies, and she makes a point of inspiring the students through humor, pep talks, and modeling good habits. Because of her extensive pedagogical experience, she is skilled in approaching a topic from many different angles, be it visual, tactile, aural, or analytical, in order to really help the student internalize the material.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys practicing yoga, attending jazz concerts, singing, trying new recipes, spending time with family, and watching crime dramas.