EdBoost Staff

Senior Staff
Specialties

Sunny Tamrakar

Academic Services Coordinator

Sunny is the Academic Services Coordinator at EdBoost, focusing on building curriculum, monitoring student progress, supervising tutors, and coordinating the homework assistance program. Sunny graduated from UCLA, with a BA in Chinese History, in 2009 and has been a tutor at EdBoost since 2006.

Math
English
Chemistry
History
Test Prep

V-SOURCE, Learning Center, Homework & School Project Assistance (HASPA), Summer Enrichment, Tutoring

Tiffani Chin, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Tiffani is the Executive Director and co-founder of EdBoost. She has been tutoring and doing test preparation since 1990 and is the author of two books, School Sense (a how-to manual for parents) and Tutoring Matters (a how-to manual for tutors).

SAT and ISEE Prep, Writing, History, Literature, Private High School/College Advising

V-SOURCE, Learning Center
Tutors
Specialties

Ariana Gonzales

Ariana is currently a 3rd year Psychology major at UCLA (c/o 2020). She was born and raised in Carson, California. In the future, she plan sto do research in behavioral psychology. Her hobbies include film photography and hiking.

Math (K-8th)
Science (K-8th)

Learning Center, Homework & School Project Assistance (HASPA), Test Prep, Tutoring

Theo Lopez

Theo is studying History/Political Science at Loyola Marymount, and is part of the class of 2018. He has hopes of one day working in international relations and public policy. Theo’s hobbies include playing tennis and the bass guitar. Theo specializes in teaching English and history for elementary, middle, and high school students.

English
History

Learning Center, Homework & School Project Assistance (HASPA), Tutoring
Board Members
Specialties

Tiffani Chin, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Tiffani is the Executive Director and co-founder of EdBoost. She has been tutoring and doing test preparation since 1990 and is the author of two books, School Sense (a how-to manual for parents) and Tutoring Matters (a how-to manual for tutors).

SAT and ISEE Prep, Writing, History, Literature, Private High School/College Advising

V-SOURCE, Learning Center

Sue Shultz

Sue Shultz has a B.A. in Education with minors in English and Social Studies from College of Our Lady of Mercy. She retired from Castle Heights Elementary School, after a distinguished 40-year teaching career. She has received a PTA "Teacher of the Year" award and has received appreciation awards for dedicated service from the Friends of Castle Heights, The Los Angeles Board of Education, and the City of Los Angeles. Sue began teaching in the Catholic school system, teaching at Holy Name School and St. Stephen's in San Francisco, St. Bruno's School in Whittier, and St. Francis X.

Adam Miller

Adam Miller earned an A.B., with honors, in sociology from Stanford Universit, a Master's degree in sociology from UCLA, and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at USC. Adam is currently the Director of Finance for the California Charter Schools Association. Adam brings higher education, education industry, and start-up experience to EdBoost's board. He was the Executive Director of the University of California Student Association (UCSA).

Megan P. Hall

Megan P. Hall earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences, cum laude, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics from UCLA. Megan completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Sciences at the University at Buffalo and completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently the managing editor of PLOS Biology, an online science journal. As an undergraduate she won a prestigious Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Bianca Haywood

Bianca Haywood is a 12th grader at Hamilton High School and an EdBoost student. Bianca's favorite subject is science. When she grows up she would like to go to UCLA or USC and be a track star like her role model, Gail Devers. Because many of her friends ask her for advice, she also thinks that she might like to be a psychologist. Bianca has won a number of awards, including "Student of the Month" and "Student of the Week" certificates at Castle Heights Elementary School and awards for running, softball, basketball, best comedian, and most stylish.

Daniel Culbert

Daniel Culbert earned his B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, Tau Beta Pi, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He has over 10 years experience as an architect, manager, and entrepreneur in leading-edge technologies and markets, working in the areas of consumer electronics, operating systems, multimedia hardware and software, internet search design, and audio recognition. He helped the Shazam, a UK company, launch their mobile audio recognition service in the UK. He founded everSearch (CTO, board member), an internet search/infrastructure company.