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Claire has been tutoring with Zinc since 2010 and is now a mentor to new tutors. She graduated from Brown University with honors in English and creative writing and was named to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. After teaching English in Thailand for a year, she moved to New York for graduate school. She received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate writing courses. Claire has published in both print and online magazines and is currently working on a nonfiction manuscript and a novel. In addition to writing and tutoring, she performs as a harpist and plays the drums.

Dan has been tutoring and teaching for over twelve years. Dan attended Duke University, where he majored in neuroscience and won an award for stage acting. Dan also holds an MS degree from Georgetown and is working on his PhD at Columbia University. He started his teaching career at St. Paul’s School in London, where he was surprised to find out that everyone called him “sir.” Dan currently lives in Brooklyn, teaches science at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, and dabbles with improvisational comedy.

Nico graduated from Princeton University, where he created a major in Performance Studies: a blend of anthropology and critical theory. His research held American media practices to political account; for his work, he was awarded Princeton’s top honor in the arts, the Lewis Suddler Prize. Now, he collaborates with universities to institute radical new artistic pedagogies that promote equity and accessibility. He is from Montevideo, Uruguay and has been a private tutor since 2016. Using his lifetime of international experience, Nico customizes his neuroscience-based curriculum to empower students into their intellectual independence.

Raised in Brooklyn, Francesca is a graduate of Saint Ann's school, Pomona College, and Trinity College Dublin, where she was awarded the Constantina Maxwell scholarship. Her undergraduate thesis focused on female agency within Nabokov’s Lolita, and she has written about the novel for several publications. Francesca has been teaching and tutoring for over seven years, and she is passionate about helping students find a sense of wonder in reading challenging texts and solving complicated math problems. Francesca is also a poet and fiction writer, and her debut novel will be published in the fall of 2023. She is passionate about queer issues and has a dog named Lyra.

David is a musician, writer, and tutor born and raised in New York, having graduated from Edgemont High School magna cum laude. At Duke University, David majored in English and Biology with minors in Chemistry and History, and was awarded the Anne Flexner Prize for Creative Writing upon graduation. After school, David worked in the corporate world for a few years first as a Management Consultant at PwC and then in marketing roles at two different tech companies before realizing his passions lay elsewhere. As a singer-songwriter and band leader, David has released two albums of original music, with a third record on the way. The son of a high school teacher who led after school classes throughout high school and college, David has been tutoring since 2016.