Meet our Tutors!

Amanda Meyer has been tutoring with First Choice since 2004. She has received both a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Amanda began tutoring for First Choice when she was a research assistant at the Yale University Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and the Yale University Department of Pediatrics. Currently she is working as a Research Technician at the New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure, Protein Structure Initiative, at the New York Structural Biology Center in New York City. She continues to tutor on the weekends and in the evenings.

Rosario Doriott has been tutoring with First Choice since June 2007. She graduated in May 2007 from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Originally from Indiana, Rosario tutors students preparing for the SSAT/ISEE and the SAT/ACT. She is fluent in Spanish, German, Geometry, Algebra, and the 3x3x3 rubik's cube. She is in the office Monday through Thursday and also on Saturday.

Allison Hager has been tutoring with First Choice since the Spring of 2007. She graduated in 2002 from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a public residential high school in Durham, NC. She has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Go Deacs! She is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Yale Divinity School and intends to be an ordained Baptist minister. She has extensive tutoring experience for high school and college students in math and science. She currently lives in New Haven with her awesome roommate and two cats, Jake and Mexicali Rose.

Nate Clark has been tutoring with First Choice since 2007. He has also tutored math in New Haven high schools. Nate is a member of the Calhoun College class of 2009 at Yale University; his major is linguistics. A Connecticut native, Nate attended Hopkins School and tutors students preparing for the SAT/ACT. Nate finds writing about himself in the third person eerie, as if he is the narrator of his own life.