About Us

For me, the best moment as a tutor is that "lightbulb moment" when a student who has been struggling with a concept and felt defeated suddenly understands what they are doing. I live for that moment, and I know that my students can feel that I truly care about them and their success. I think I have the best job in the world. To be able to help struggling students do better and find peace in their schoolwork, and to help excelling students reach their true potential means everything to me. 

Our goal is to make things simple, break them down into pieces that are easy to digest, and take away the anxiety that can come along with both schoolwork and standardized tests. With standardized testing, my goal is to demystify the test and make it feel accessible to all students, and with schoolwork, it is to break huge concepts and projects into pieces a student can easily manage.

Each student’s program is customized around their specific needs and abilities, and focused to both support their strengths and improve in the areas where they struggle. For academic tutoring, most students come once per week through the academic year, but of course the best part of the one-on-one model is that each student has a tailor made program. For test prep, the same is true. Some students come just once or twice, others for months leading up to the standardized test they are taking.

Beth has been tutoring full time since 2004, and works with students of all ages and abilities. She has tutored more than 20,000 hours with thousands of students over the years. She also has extensive experience working with students who have diagnosed learning differences, and enjoys making learning easier for students who have had a harder time in school. She specializes in working with students who are strugging with executive functioning and organizational challenges.

She received a BA in French from the University of Redlands and an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown. She went on to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Colombia, and came home to take on a job with the UN. She speaks French and Spanish fluently and really enjoys making those languages more accessible for her students. 

Beth spends her free time travelling the globe and is also involved in long distance open water swimming. She completed the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim of 4.4 miles in 2017, 2018, and 2022 the 5 mile Coral Reef swim in St. Croix in 2017 and 2018, and the Round the Sound 10k swim in Bermuda in October 2019. She is planning a second 10k swim this coming October. She also loves bringing her dog Islay to the office with her!

Henry Perillo  has been tutoring since 2017 in subjects ranging from Biology and Mathematics to English and American History. He has a BS in Environmental Sciences from the University of Notre Dame and an MSc in Environmental Science from Trinity College Dublin, and has lived in Italy and Ireland. His hobbies include swimming, reading, cooking, and traveling.  

 Grant Przybyla has been working as an academic tutor since 2019, helping high schoolers across the DMV with math, test prep, French, and American history. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2017 with a BA in Economics and minors in Mathematics and Art History. He has also worked as an English as a Foreign Language teacher in the Czech Republic. You can often find him biking on the MBT, falling off of walls at DC Bouldering Project, or cheering on the Washington Spirit at Audi Field. 

 Stephan Nazarian has been tutoring professionally since 2009. He has tutored a broad range of subjects as well as a variety of standardized tests. His greatest joy comes from helping kids embrace the agency in their own education by helping them build the tools they need to learn and engage deeply with whatever fascinates them. He holds a BA in Political Science and a JD from the University of Arkansas. His hobbies mostly revolve around growing, cooking, fermenting, and eating food.