Joy Tutoring

Meet the boss!
Benji is the executive director and founder of Joy Tutoring and has been enthusiastically tutoring since 2006. He grew up in Albany, CA, and attended Marin Elementary School, Albany Middle School, and Albany High School. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2013 with honors with a degree in Biology. After college he taught at Tilden Preparatory School in Albany until he started his PhD in UC Berkeley's department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Benji received his PhD in 2020 and wrote his dissertation on the behavioral ecology of spiders.
Benji uses innovative and adaptive teaching methods to help his students thrive and excel far past their expectations. He specializes in tutoring high school math, and has tutored many other subjects including biology, environmental science, chemistry, physics (all including AP), computer programming, and Spanish. Benji has ADHD and Tourette's Syndrome, and he loves to work with students with learning disabilities. He believes that these conditions form an important part of who he is, and that - in addition to the difficulties they pose - have ultimately made his life better.

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Masami is the Director of Operations at Joy Tutoring and follows her mission to empower others through education. She works at Edwards Lifesciences where she helps bring medical devices to critical care patients. She studied biology and nutritional science at UC Berkeley and received a Masters in Business and Science at Keck Graduate Institute of the Claremont Colleges.
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Masami is in Orange County, California where she loves to sing a ca****la with her music group for senior citizens. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, discovering new recipes, and reading all types of books!

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Milo is currently a PhD student at Harvard studying how yeast evolve in the lab! He grew up in Durango, CO, before going to college at Dartmouth, where he became friends with Benji. He graduated in 2013 with a degree in Biology, spent a year helping students and professors in the art and film departments with digital art programs, and then applied to graduate school.
Milo specializes in tutoring programming, basic web development, or digital art programs. He has mentored several college students and taught classes involving programming, and deeply believes that computer science is more fundamental, important, and useful than math (maybe he and Benji can argue on this point)!
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Trinity is a 3rd-year PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley studying how arachnids’ prior experiences influence their mating choices and communication. She grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended Washington University in St. Louis Missouri before heading to the University of Cincinnati Ohio for her master’s.
She taught undergraduate biology labs while in Ohio and Insect Behavior here at Berkeley. Trinity is particularly passionate about spiders and has been studying them all throughout her life. When she is not out searching for her eight-legged friends, she can be found dancing to latin music, hiking or singing.
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