My primary interest in tutoring comes from my background in history (BA from Brown University) and creative writing (MFA from The City College of New York).I remember the fright and joy I felt the first time I worked with students. The students were teenage Tibetan refugees and one monk from Thailand who was in town to learn English. The class spoke a mixture of bad English, Tibetan, and Nepali, but they had signed up for my creative writing seminar anyway. Some of them couldn't write or were afraid to share their writing, and some of them were more than eager to read personal essays about what was meaningful to them. At the end of the seminar, they gave me a gift of a pen and a special writing pad. Given their economic circumstances, this was a tremendous gift from them.

History, Creative Writing, Tibetan and Medieval Art, Medieval Reenactment