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.

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.