Find a Future That Fits

I am a Certified Educational Planner who first helped others find the right college when I took my younger siblings on their campus tours in the late 1970’s while still an undergraduate myself. I was first paid to do the work in the early 1980’s and since then college counseling is most of what I have done professionally, in settings as different as the major cities of Philadelphia, Brussels, and Brooklyn; the suburbs of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and Edison, New Jersey; and the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. I have also been a university admissions officer and a television anchorman.

Working in partnership with parents, I have helped hundreds of students find the right next step after high school. The vast majority have chosen a college or university, but others have chosen different paths into small businesses of their own. I truly enjoy getting to know young people as unique individuals, then help each one find a path that makes personal sense. Having helped my three daughters navigate their journeys to and through college and graduate school, and into adult life helps me help parents, too.

I have written extensively about the college process, with pieces in Forbes.com, a weekly column in the Virgin Islands Daily News (Finding A College That Fits), Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Independent School, and The New York Times; hosted a weekly radio show on WVWI-AM (Making the College Choice); and appeared on television in the Virgin Islands (Talk 2: Preparing Our Children for College).

In addition to being a Certified Educational Planner, I am a a Professional Member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), a member of the Fiske College Guide Editorial Advisory Group, the Princeton Review National College Counselor Advisory Board,  and was a Founding Member of the Executive Committee that created the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS). I hold degrees in English, from Amherst College; Journalism, from Columbia University; and Liberal Arts, from St. John’s College.

At one time or another, I have visited most of the colleges in the Fiske Guide to Colleges and Princeton Review’s Best 389, and have chaperoned many student tours, especially to colleges and universities located from Boston to Washington, DC