Chief Strategy Officer | English Instructor

Welcome!

 

I graduated from Harvard in 2015 with a BA in English (and secondary in music) and the New England Conservatory in 2017 with an MM in Jazz Performance. I teach a variety of English topics, including literary analysis, reading comprehension, essay writing, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. I develop unique curriculum for each student, using my Functional series to cover foundational skills.

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My teaching style is patient, detail-oriented, and interactive.

 

I am currently working on my fourth novel and have written nearly 100 sonnets and other poems, one of which was recently selected for publication in the 2025 edition of the San Diego Poetry Annual. 

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I am a director for the Harvard Club of Southern California, through which I host fiction-writing workshops and networking events.

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My academic interests include Realism, Modernism, Romantic poetry, Structuralism, and Post-structuralism; my favorite writers include Keats, Austen, Barthes, Milton, Shakespeare, Woolf, Tolstoy, James Wood, Marilynne Robinson, and Mary Oliver.

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I am the IS manager for Sapient and designed this website, including writing the majority of its text. (In case you're curious, AI was never used for any text.)

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I am also working on a music-theory book and play the saxophone, piano, flute, clarinet, and trumpet. I was the jazz combo director at Los Alamitos High School during the '18–19 school year, where I also led jazz improvisation and composition workshops.

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I have played Super Smash Brothers Melee competitively since 2014, dual-maining Fox and Falco with Peach and Marth secondaries. I am also a Phob GCC maker and controller modder. In my spare time, I sing and play SSBU and retro games with friends.

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You can find a running list of my site updates here.

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Photo Credit: Ian Burgos