I discovered my calling to teach when I was tutoring my friend Dani for the SAT (an American standardized test for admission to university). One day, Dani finally grasped a concept we had been working on for several sessions, and I felt really happy about that. I knew right then and there that I wanted to teach when I grew up. The issue was that I was a grown up already on a different career path. Nevertheless, I decided to pursue my newfound passion even if that meant taking a leap of faith, quitting a great job, and going back to school.

Fast forward to today, and I teach a variety of courses in the fields of positive psychology and math. Through various student-centered methodologies, such as the flipped classroom and gamification, I make my classes entertaining. I love and take pride in making challenging subjects comprehensible and enjoyable. Whether face-to-face or online, I carefully design different activities for each lesson to help grasp and bring home difficult concepts in an engaging way.

I use my strengths of creativity, kindness, zest, and—I like to think—humor to deliver hands-on and fun lessons. I love my job so much that, on most days, on my way home from the university, I blast music in my car and sing loudly to celebrate my satisfaction and happiness.