Lori is a platinum-level tutor at Kweller Prep with over 10 years of experience helping students achieve outstanding academic results. She has a strong track record of guiding students to acceptance at Hunter College High School and New York City’s specialized high schools, and is widely trusted by families for her consistency, clarity, and results-driven approach.
Lori is a schoolteacher and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Hunter College. While at Stuyvesant, she began building the foundation of her teaching career by instructing first-grade students in reading fundamentals at a local elementary school. She later attended Boston University, where she continued developing her instructional skills by teaching English and early literacy to students in Boston public schools. Lori brings a diverse and leadership-driven educational background, having served as a lead teacher in a Head Start program and as Summer Director of My Little Language Montessori School. She also held a leadership role as Vice President of the Stuyvesant Chapter of Aspira of New York, a multicultural youth leadership development organization.
Her academic achievements include induction into multiple National Honor Societies (ARISTA to Psi Chi), participation in Annual Biomedical Research Conferences in Dallas and Atlanta, and presentations at Hunter College Honors Week, where she explored motivational interviewing as a therapeutic intervention. While earning her BA in psychology, Lori excelled in Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences and Quantitative Research Methods, later becoming a Teaching Assistant and an NIH-sponsored research fellow at Hunter College. She conducted and analyzed behavioral research, which she presented at the New England Science Symposium at Harvard Medical School.
Lori has also published written work, including feature articles for the New York Post Entertainment Department, and continued her academic research as a Columbia University PREP Scholar, investigating desensitization to violent media using functional MRI at the College of Physicians & Surgeons.
At Kweller Prep, Lori has taught the Hunter Prep Program, writing classes, and ELA/Math programs for over a decade, with a particular strength in preparing students for the Hunter College High School entrance exam, including its rigorous reading and writing components. She is known for her ability to break down complex questions into clear, manageable steps, helping students build both confidence and mastery. Her students consistently show strong improvement, and many have gone on to gain admission to highly competitive schools.
Lori is one of the most sought-after and beloved tutors at Kweller Prep, known for being kind, patient, nurturing, and deeply invested in her students’ success. Outside of Kweller Prep, she teaches creative movement to preschoolers through her musical early fitness classes and is a certified volunteer at her son’s Catholic school. Lori approaches every student with care and dedication, treating each child as her own.