My Education: I hold a Certificate in College Counseling from UCLA, and I am a graduate of the PACAC Institute for College Counseling. I am certified as a secondary school teacher by the State of New York. I graduated magna cum laude from New York University, where I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law where I graduated at the top of my class.

My Experience: My career-oriented focus as an independent educational consultant (IEC) draws on my experience in the business world, as well as my educational background. As an award-winning editor and writer specializing in higher education and secondary school, I have gained invaluable insight into families, secondary school and higher education. Thanks to my law background, I am an effective advisor to and advocate for my students. My law, writing and editing skills give students an advantage in brainstorming, crafting and polishing essays that sing and in creating powerful, professional resumes that become the foundations for their careers.

My Media: I have been featured in the cover story, V.I.P., in the January 6, 2008 edition of The New York Times Special Supplement, Education Life; in the September 2010 Back-to-School issue of Westchester Magazine (Getting That Big Fat Envelope); in the Great Schools Parent's Guide to K-12 Success (Should My Teen Take Four Years of a Foreign Language?); and in Allbusiness.com (Stress, College Admissions and Your Employees).

I am a contributor to Get into College (Atlanta, Georgia: Hundreds of Heads Books, 2009) and How to Survive Getting Into College (Atlanta, Georgia: Hundreds of Heads Books, 2006), and I share tips on the college process in the Counselor's Corner of the Get into College online newsletter: the college search, surfing college websites, visiting colleges, colleges visiting you, organizing applications, summer activities, financial aid, meeting deadlines, and creating a senior year checklist.

I have written about college for the RJ Insider's Guide to College Life and for the newsletter of CACLD, the Connecticut Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities. I was the College Insider columnist in Westchester County, N.Y. You can read a number of those columns in the Articles section of this website.

My programs have featured panelists from American University, Barnard College, Bucknell University, Butler University, Columbia University, Dickinson College, Indiana University, Lafayette College, Lawrence University, Muhlenberg College, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), SUNY New Paltz, Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, University of Connecticut, University of Rochester, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University. Bringing together the decision-makers in college admissions to talk with students and parents and my colleagues is among my greatest pleasures.

My Affiliations: I am a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA), the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC), the Westchester/Putnam/Rockland Counseling Association (WPRCA) and the American Association of University Women.

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