Before tutoring, Katy worked with refugee legal aid organizations in the Middle East. For the last five years, she has worked as a private tutor for elite high school students in the United States and China, teaching courses in writing/English (creative, academic, and college essays), AP World History, US History, French and Spanish. She previously worked long-term with Lawrenceville students in writing and language arts. She has also advised several long-term high school and college students on research projects, extracurricular projects, and summer program applications.
Katy has supported students with applications to the following schools (to name a few): Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, Duke, NYU, Emory, Vanderbilt, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, University of San Diego, Pepperdine, Michigan State University, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, University of Michigan, Tufts, Boston College, Florida, FSU, University of Miami, William & Mary, University of Texas, Tulane, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Villanova, Rutgers, Lehigh, Syracuse, American University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Maryland, and UC schools.
Katy volunteers as an admissions counselor for Swarthmore College, writes film criticism, and is finishing her first feature-length film based in Houston, Texas. Her hobbies include dancing salsa, cooking, and gardening.
College:
Education: Swarthmore College
Undergrad Major: Political Science, Islamic Studies
Other Degrees/Minors: Masters of Arts in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University)
High School:
Class Rank: Top 3%
Awards & Honors: K Award for top French student
Interests & Activities: During her sophomore and junior years, she worked forty hours a week at a retirement home in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, serving as both a receptionist and a kitchen worker. In addition to her job, she also worked as a private tutor for a middle school student. She was an active member of the tennis team and played cello in the orchestra.
SAT Scores: 800 Reading/Writing
AP Exams: 5 Government, 5 U.S. History, 5 French
SAT Subject Tests: 800 Spanish
Other:
Other Awards: Judith Polgar Ruchkin Prize in Political Science for the best senior thesis.
Other Interests & Activities: After completing her M.A. at Princeton, she published her peer-reviewed research in Columbia's World Records journal (Bidayyat / Lineaments of Iltizam). She runs a cinema club that programs films from the Global South and is a Houston Arts Alliance grantee, currently working on her first feature-length film. She has audited various courses in the Master’s in Art History program at UNAM and volunteers teaching cinema to children in an autonomous urban community. She has also given several talks on cinema at universities and cultural centers in Mexico City.
Location: Other
