Award-Winning Economics Tutors
serving Mesa, AZ

Jake's marketing degree means he studied the demand side of economics firsthand — consumer behavior, pricing strategy, and how firms respond to market signals are concepts he's applied, not just memorized. His strong quantitative background (he tutors AP Statistics and both AP Calculus courses) lets him handle the graphing and algebraic reasoning that economics problems demand when students move past definitions into actual analysis. Rated 4.9 by his students.

Building a SaaS company from the ground up gave John a practical education in supply and demand, pricing strategy, opportunity cost, and market structure that most economics tutors only know from textbooks. He uses those real-world examples to make concepts like elasticity and comparative advantage intuitive, then ties them back to the graphs and equations students need for exams.

Andrew's dual degree in History and Economics from Northwestern means he studied economic theory alongside the historical events that shaped it — recessions, trade wars, policy shifts — giving him a narrative framework that makes concepts like comparative advantage or monetary policy feel less abstract. His law degree adds another layer: he can explain how regulatory structures and legal incentives actually alter market behavior. Rated 4.9 by his students.

Amanda's anthropology and biology training gives her an unusual entry point into economics — she's studied how societies organize resources, make collective decisions, and respond to scarcity long before those ideas get formalized into supply-and-demand curves. That cross-disciplinary perspective is especially useful for students wrestling with topics like development economics or behavioral models, where understanding human decision-making matters as much as the math behind it. Rated 4.9 by her students.

Graphing cost curves or interpreting shifts in supply and demand becomes far less intimidating when someone can explain the math driving the models. Madeleine's applied mathematics background means she can unpack the quantitative side of economics — marginal analysis, optimization, equilibrium calculations — while still connecting those numbers to real-world intuition.

Maurice's statistics and math teaching background gives him a practical handle on the quantitative side of economics — reading supply-and-demand graphs, interpreting elasticity calculations, and working through the kind of data-driven questions that show up in introductory and AP-level courses. His special education training also means he's especially skilled at restructuring explanations on the fly when a concept like comparative advantage or market equilibrium isn't landing the first time around.

Business communications at Barrett Honors College means Gabrielle studies how organizations make decisions under constraints — the same logic that drives economic concepts like scarcity, trade-offs, and cost-benefit analysis. Her calculus background also lets her tackle the quantitative side when courses move into graphing marginal costs or calculating elasticity. Rated 5.0 by her students.

Aaron's pure mathematics training at Rice University means the graphing and algebraic reasoning that trip up many economics students — shifting supply curves, calculating elasticity, optimizing with derivatives in intermediate micro — come naturally to him. His breadth across calculus, AP Chemistry, and comparative government also lets him draw unexpected connections between economic models and the scientific or political contexts that give them meaning. Rated 4.9 by his students.

Civil engineering is fundamentally an exercise in resource allocation — every bridge design and infrastructure project Emeka has worked on involves weighing costs against benefits, optimizing under constraints, and forecasting demand. That real-world decision-making maps directly onto economics concepts like marginal analysis, scarcity, and efficiency, giving him a tangible way to explain ideas that often feel purely theoretical. Rated 5.0 by his students.

Supply and demand curves are straightforward until students have to explain why a price floor creates a surplus or trace the ripple effects of a tariff through multiple markets. Mladen's analytical training in law and psychology gives him a knack for breaking down these cause-and-effect chains so the logic clicks, not just the graphs.

I have an MBA from Rice University and both real-world business experience and teaching experience. Most recently, I taught a first-year college course in Microeconomics for nine years, in addition to other classes in the university's international trade program. My students came from over 30 countries! I've worked in over a dozen countries for the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as for private firms in building engineering and the energy industry. I enjoy helping students gain competence and master their chosen area of study.

Before tutoring economics, Gordon spent years in biological sciences at Arizona State — which turns out to be surprisingly useful when students need to think about systems, trade-offs, and resource allocation, since ecology and economics share the same underlying logic of scarcity and optimization. His Teach for America experience and work mentoring premed undergraduates means he's taught students at every level how to reason through models rather than just memorize curves and definitions.

I am a graduate of Texas Christian University. I received my degree in Secondary Education with a Social Studies Emphasis and Mathematics Minor. I am currently pursuing my Masters of Education through the University of Notre Dame while teaching high school math and social studies. I have experience tutoring the PSAT, ACT, SAT, and various math subjects. I look forward to working with you!

Thirty years of teaching Government and Economics classes — from AP-level policy analysis down to ELL sections where every term needs careful unpacking — means Catherine has explained concepts like fiscal policy, market incentives, and budget trade-offs to virtually every type of learner. Her American Studies background gives her a natural entry point through the economic forces that shaped U.S. history, connecting abstract models to the tariffs, recessions, and policy debates students already recognize. Rated 4.9 by her students.

Supply and demand curves are simple enough on the surface, but economics gets tricky fast once students hit elasticity, market structures, or macroeconomic models. Emma minored in economics at Harvard, so she can unpack concepts like comparative advantage or fiscal policy with real-world examples that make the math and the theory click together. She holds a 5.0 client rating.

Studying biology at Cornell means Drishti constantly encounters economics in disguise — resource allocation in ecosystems, cost-benefit trade-offs in evolutionary strategies, statistical modeling in population dynamics — which gives her an intuitive feel for concepts like scarcity, marginal analysis, and equilibrium. She also tutors AP Micro, AP Macro, and AP Statistics, so she can connect the graphical and quantitative reasoning those courses demand back to core economic thinking. Rated 5.0 by her students.

I am highly proficient in other areas in economics, high school mathematics, calculus I and European history.

I am a graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with Distinction in 2015. Since graduation, I was a physics/chemistry teacher and soccer coach at a private school in Virginia for a year, where I led the soccer team to an undefeated season. Before teaching and coaching professionally, I was a Teaching Assistant for the Cornell Math and Physics Departments, where I taught many subjects including calculus, mechanics, electromagnetism. Throughout my time at Cornell and as a teacher, I tutored subjects ranging from the SAT to AP Physics and Algebra II, which is where my true talents lie: in small group or one-on-one settings where I can give students the full attention they deserve and tailor my approach specifically to their learning styles. This is why I am now pursuing tutoring as a part-time occupation at Varsity Tutors. I embrace teaching all math and science subjects, especially physics and calculus, at both the college and high school level and will go above and beyond to make sure all of my students succeed, according to their definition of success. In my spare time, I enjoy playing league soccer, basketball, tennis and guitar, and also like to travel and see as much of the world as I can.

Rithi's quantitative backbone — a neuroscience degree, a master's in biotechnology, and deep coursework in statistics and calculus — means she can tackle the math-heavy side of economics that often catches students off guard, like working through elasticity calculations, interpreting cost curves, or setting up optimization problems. Her 4.9 rating speaks to an ability to make that quantitative reasoning feel approachable even for students who came in expecting a purely conceptual course.

Few economics tutors can explain supply-and-demand curves AND describe how those models play out inside a trading floor at Goldman Sachs or a policy meeting at the World Bank. Denise earned her B.S. in Economics from Wharton and her master's in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia, giving her the depth to teach everything from microeconomic theory and market structures to macroeconomic policy and international trade with real-world fluency.

An MBA in Finance and Management gives Hari the kind of fluency with economic reasoning that comes from applying it — building financial models, analyzing market conditions, weighing strategic trade-offs in real business contexts. He teaches micro and macro concepts like elasticity, monetary policy, and market structures by connecting them to the finance and accounting decisions where those ideas actually matter. Rated 5.0 by his students.

Studying sociology at the University of Chicago means Zo is constantly analyzing how institutions, incentives, and inequality shape human behavior — which is essentially what economics does through a quantitative lens. That social-science fluency makes her especially sharp on topics like market failures, externalities, and the distributional questions that come up in both micro and macro courses. Rated 5.0 by her students.

Cornell's Labor and Industrial Relations program is essentially applied economics — Andrew has spent semesters working through supply and demand modeling, labor market analysis, and cost-benefit frameworks. He breaks down concepts like elasticity and market equilibrium by tying them to real workforce data, making abstract theory tangible.

Monetary policy, banking systems, and market behavior aren't abstractions to Cole — they were the focus of his cum laude master's thesis at the University of Amsterdam. He teaches economics by grounding theory in current events, so students see how supply-and-demand diagrams or GDP calculations connect to headlines they've actually read. Rated 5.0 by students.

Shreya's AP Micro and AP Macro teaching experience means she knows exactly where students get tripped up — confusing movement along a curve with a shift, or mixing up fiscal and monetary policy tools. Her molecular biology coursework at Yale loaded her schedule with statistics and quantitative reasoning, so she's comfortable walking through the graphs and mathematical models that make economics click. Rated 5.0 by her students.

Studying economics at Penn while simultaneously completing a music degree meant Katherine had to internalize models quickly — there wasn't time to passively reread chapters on elasticity or game theory when rehearsals and problem sets competed for the same hours. That efficiency now shows up in her tutoring, where she zeroes in on the specific graph, equation, or intuition a student is missing and builds understanding from there. Her 1550 SAT speaks to the analytical sharpness she brings to quantitative econ topics.