Leah

• Role : 6th-12th Grade Writing
  Tutor & College
  Essay Coach

While helping her own daughter through the college process, Leah noticed how overwhelming and stressful it could be, even for someone with support. This inspired her to develop an approach that streamlines and empowers students with tools to better plan for their futures. Leah also works as a college enrollment and retention coach through the nonprofit Inside Track and has earned credentials in Foundational Coaching, Success Coaching, and Career Coaching that help her to effectively align high school students’ values with their college goals. She will be entering UC Irving’s certification program as an independent educational consultant in the winter of 2024. This certification, combined with her unique background of nearly two decades working in higher education as a writing tutor and English professor, offers teenagers a nuanced and thoughtful coaching program that helps high school students engage and feel supported in the college process. Her coaching approach helps parents and students collaborate to transparently discuss a range of factors, including cost, size, location, extracurricular opportunities, and academics, as well as fine-tuning application materials to open as many doors as possible.