My journey with teaching began by accident three years ago, when I began to work as an Assistant Director for a tutoring center. This job began as a means to pay for graduate school at the time, when I was earning my MFA in Creative Writing. At first, I stayed mainly in the clerical side of the job, but naturally began to gravitate more towards the teaching and began tutoring some classes myself. Within the first few months of my new job, I had also oriented myself with college counseling and began helping the seniors with their college applications! Many of our students went on to study at prestigious universities! 

The tutoring and mentoring was fulfilling, but only to an extent. The longer I worked there, the less I liked the center and the idea of private education. The families who that tutoring center served hailed from financially privileged backgrounds; they were the only ones who could afford the tuition with private tutors. I wanted to teach and help students who looked like me, thus began offering tutoring lessons, and college application help, to students in my community. Students who, like me, attended public schools, came from immigrant backgrounds, and who had the drive to pursue higher education! It was for this reason that I applied to earn my teaching credential and leave the private education sector.