...I helped set up the first walk in tutor center at my school and won several awards for being a good teaching assistant and tutor. I pride myself on being someone who can easily teach complex topics in a way that makes sense. I quickly realized how important it was to adapt my tutoring style to each person, leading me to have success where many others can not. (read more)
...I have also worked as a volunteer, teaching environmental sciences and ecology to children pre-school age through middle school for almost 30 years. I developed and taught an entirely on-line Environmental Biology course for over a decade and during COVID I taught entirely remotely, and then as ... (read more)
...I then volunteered for 15 years in Latin America, inventing new gizmos and gadgets for impoverished coffee farmers so they could process and export their coffee. I'm proudest of a decaffeinator we built in Guatemala. One of the occupational hazards of that job is it made me a serious coffee snob. (read more)