About Me
I was born in London and grew up in England. After graduating from Bristol University with a degree in History and History of Art, I moved to the U.S. My interests shifted to teaching, and I did my graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University. I lived for many years in New York City, taught at The Brearley School, and worked in educational software design.
In 2001, I moved to Vermont, where my husband and I homeschooled our son, David. David attended MIT as an undergraduate and then spent a Fulbright Scholarship year in Germany. In 2018, he earned his PhD in Mathematics from MIT followed by an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and at Mila. In 2021, he was included in MIT Technology Review’s global list of 35 ‘Innovators Under 35.’
I have worked with a number of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY) families and given talks for CTY's Pathways to College seminars. I also advise families of Davidson Young Scholars as well as providing guidance to independent schools.
I am an educational consultant for Boston University and work extensively with the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS), a mathematics summer program for very strongly motivated high schoolers, and with PROMYS India at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and PROMYS Europe at the University of Oxford.
