I started as a counselor at InGenius Prep in 2022 before joining the management team the following year. I previously worked as an assistant professor in the foreign languages department at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where I lived for five years before returning to the States. I’m currently based in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
I moved to China in 2017 after completing my PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. My academic research focused on literature and philosophy, while the topics of my Tsinghua courses ranged from ancient epic poetry to the European Enlightenment to 20th-century experimental fiction. At Michigan, I was a German language instructor for seven years. Before graduate school, I worked as a high school debate coach in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area while studying at Macalester College.
Working with students has been the most consistent and meaningful part of my professional life. Counseling, advising, mentorship—whatever form it takes, the opportunity to help students reach their goals and progress to the next stage is, for me, what higher education is all about. I have been fortunate to work with hundreds of talented students from diverse backgrounds in both the United States and China. At Tsinghua, where admissions counseling was a major part of my role, I supervised Chinese students’ successful applications to many of the most prestigious academic programs in the world.
In my free time, I am usually reading, jogging, or playing music. I look forward to meeting you!
