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I am a graduate of Luther College, a liberal arts school in Decorah, IA. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Religion, with a minor in Social Welfare. Throughout college, I tutored many students in high school and college level math. I loved the process of helping people through math problems, so after graduating I served in the MN Math Corps as a Math Enrichment Tutor, where I learned research based teaching methods to tutor middle school students who were below proficiency in math. Currently, I am certified to tutor a broad range of math subjects ranging from elementary math to pre-calculus, as well as ACT Math and GRE Math/Verbal test prep. Through my experience, I've found that the best method of tutoring is to tailor it to each student's learning style (every concept can be taught/understood in multiple ways), and make sure the student actually understands what he/she is doing versus just learning equations and methods to complete assignments. I am very passionate about tutoring math as I love empowering people, and I believe mathematics is a vital subject to learn and understand. In addition to tutoring, I have worked as a data analyst for a market research firm near Chicago. In my free time, I enjoy keeping up on current events, reading (I love Harry Potter and Hunger Games!), Ultimate Frisbee, playing guitar and piano, and learning economics.

At UCLA, Christopher studied economics with a double major that gave him both the quantitative models and the historical context behind how markets actually develop — useful when explaining why perfectly competitive markets rarely exist or how government intervention reshapes incentive structures. His time at Deutsche Bank adds a practical dimension to topics like firm pricing behavior and cost analysis, since he's seen how businesses weigh marginal decisions with real money on the line.

Being inside Michigan Ross's BBA program means Kerry encounters microeconomic thinking in nearly every class — how firms decide what to produce, why pricing strategies differ across market structures, and what drives consumer decision-making under scarcity. That daily immersion in business case analysis gives her a way of teaching concepts like elasticity and profit maximization that's grounded in how companies actually behave, not just how curves shift on a whiteboard.

Mary's PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago means she spent years doing the kind of constrained optimization and quantitative modeling that microeconomics relies on — minimizing costs, maximizing outputs, interpreting how variables shift on a graph. She pairs that analytical rigor with MBA coursework that gave her direct exposure to firm behavior, pricing strategy, and market dynamics. It's a combination that lets her teach both the calculus behind profit maximization and the business logic that makes it meaningful.

Consumer choice theory, production functions, and market structures like oligopoly all require students to think in graphs and marginal terms simultaneously. Idara's engineering management training at Stanford built exactly that kind of analytical fluency, and her finance career keeps her sharp on how firms actually make the pricing and output decisions microeconomics describes.

Elasticity, market structures, consumer surplus — microeconomics is full of concepts that seem straightforward on the surface but get tricky the moment you apply them to problem sets. Jack's Northwestern economics training means he can walk through the math behind each model while keeping the bigger economic intuition in focus. He holds a 5.0 rating from students.

Jake's marketing degree gives him a practical angle on microeconomic concepts — he's studied how firms actually respond to price elasticity, how consumers weigh marginal utility in purchasing decisions, and why market structures shape advertising strategy. That real-world grounding makes abstract models like profit maximization and cost curves feel less like graph exercises and more like tools businesses use every day. Rated 4.9 by students.

An International Economics degree gives John a real-world framework for teaching microeconomic concepts like elasticity, market structures, and consumer choice theory — not just as textbook abstractions but as tools for analyzing actual markets. His legal training adds a practical edge when covering topics like externalities, regulation, and game theory, since he can walk through how these ideas play out in policy and case law.

Marginal cost curves, elasticity calculations, and market structure models can blur together without a clear framework for when each tool applies. Dylan's policy analysis training required him to use microeconomic models to evaluate everything from healthcare markets to environmental regulation, so he teaches these concepts through the lens of actual decision-making. Students leave sessions understanding not just how to solve the problem set but why firms and consumers behave the way the models predict.

An economics degree from SUNY Albany means James can teach microeconomic concepts — supply and demand curves, elasticity, market structures, consumer choice theory — with the depth of someone who studied them formally. He connects abstract models like marginal utility and cost curves to real-world pricing decisions that make the logic intuitive. His 4.9 rating speaks to how clearly he breaks down graphs and mathematical relationships that trip students up.

The jump from basic supply-and-demand to consumer theory, production functions, and market structures trips up a lot of students because the math and the intuition have to work together. Eric unpacks each model — indifference curves, marginal cost pricing, game theory matrices — by tying the algebra back to the economic story it tells. His Business Administration training gives him a practical lens on how firms actually make these decisions.

Andrew's Labor and Industrial Relations degree at Cornell covers significant microeconomic ground — labor markets, wage determination, firm behavior under different bargaining structures — giving him a practical lens on concepts like supply and demand, market power, and efficiency. He teaches students to think through how incentives shape decisions at the individual and firm level, grounding abstract models in the kind of real-world labor and industry examples that make the logic click. Rated 4.9 by students.

Elasticity, market structures, and consumer theory can feel abstract until someone walks you through the logic behind each graph. Noah breaks down microeconomic models step by step, connecting concepts like marginal cost curves and deadweight loss to concrete examples so the intuition clicks before the exam.