Professional Experience

I am frequently hired as a freelance editor by manuscript writers and grant writers in the hard and social sciences who are seeking proofreading, line edits, or structural reorganization. I also frequently work with students on admissions essays for college, graduate school, and professional programs, and my students boast a high success rate to their top choices.

As a cognitive science consultant to businesses and organizations across the education, healthcare, and legal sectors, I provide psychological insights and advise on effective ways to communicate them to clients. I am available for individual consulting as well seminar/webinar speaking engagements. (Work sample available on request.)

I was selected as a 2022 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute Fellow (supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Initiative) to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects with other fellows and storytellers at St. Andrews University in Scotland. 

In addition to my primary graduate and postdoctoral positions, I have worked as a Research Scientist at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools with Joseph McDonald and a Research Associate at the National Institute of Early Education Research with Kimberly Brenneman and Alissa Lange, as well as a Research Assistant in the Department of Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center with Janet Fodor. 

In addition to my undergraduate and graduate teaching, I have a range of other teaching experience including individual instruction for children and adults who have learning disabilities, certification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, training in the Orton Gillingham method of reading instruction for children with dyslexia, coaching NYC public school teachers in the World of Words curriculum, and 5 years of experience teaching Jewish Studies. I am a member of the American Psychological Association Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology and serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Students.  

I am on the staff of Indigo Research, where I mentor high school, college, and graduate students through individual research projects, guiding them in literature review, experimental design, data collection and analysis, and manuscript preparation. At the CRI Summer Program, Smith College Professor Brianna McMillan and I co-taught a class on Research in Psychology of Language. I also work as a Strategist for Crimson Education, where I help prospective masters and doctoral students think through and prepare for this next step. I also work as a Master Tutor for Cambridge Coaching and as an Executive Functioning Coach for Organizational Tutors and consult for a wide range of other educational organizations.

From 2016-2021, I founded and directed Bedrock Tutoring, a small learning specialist practice where my colleague Hannah Temkin and I used cognitive science principles to work with children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of learning disabilities, particularly language-based learning disabilities, executive functioning challenges, and academic-related anxiety

From 2008-2010 I was a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science. From 2011-2014, I worked as a National Science Foundation REU supervisor, training undergraduates in interdisciplinary research methods.