Experience Summary
Teaching is the most rewarding thing I have ever done. I have extensive experience teaching languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French), social sciences and music. I have been gainfully employed as an interpreter, a professor, a tutor, a marketing manager, an editor, an immigration specialist, and now as in-house counsel for a major U.S. bank. This eclectic and fulfilling professional background is the natural product of an insatiable curiosity and exceptional linguistic talent. In addition to a minor in Spanish and a certificate in Latin American Studies, I have bachelor degrees with honors and distinction in History and English from the University of Iowa. Furthermore, I recently graduated in the top 12% of my class with honors and distinction from the University of Iowa law school in 2003. I have also studied languages, social science topics and law in South America and Europe. I am constantly rewarded by my efforts with my current students. I have two piano students that I teach and two university students that I tutor in economics and sociology. They are a constant source of inspiration for me.
Teaching Style
My teaching style involves a combination of patience, mastery over the material at hand, a sense of humor, Socratic Method and a personal commitment to my students. This style allows students both to excel academically and to build the confidence and problem-solving skills necessary to meet challenges outside the classroom. Specifically, this style instills an inquisitive and non-dogmatic learning approach in students that provides them with critical thinking and expression tools which are universally applicable.