I always knew I was meant to teach. What I didn’t know was who — or what — I’d end up teaching.

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The teacher who almost was

I grew up with a vision. I wanted to stand in front of a classroom — not just delivering content, but unlocking something in teenagers who had been told, implicitly or explicitly, that the world had a ceiling for people like them. I wanted to show them that poetry and literature weren’t relics of someone else’s education. They were tools for living.

I studied at UC Berkeley and taught a small group of students at a charter school. It was everything I’d imagined. I signed a contract with LAUSD. I had a plan. I was going back to Los Angeles to give back to my community, one reluctant reader at a time.

Then 2008 happened. The financial crash wiped out budgets, and with them, first-year hires. My contract evaporated before my first day.

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A self-taught life in tech

I didn’t have a computer science degree. I had YouTube, free online courses, and a stubborn belief that I could figure things out. I taught myself technical support for iOS users, working remotely from home — something most people hadn’t heard of yet. I got good at it. Eventually I was training customers, training teams, and building processes that my former employers still use today.

The most important thing isn’t knowing the most. It’s being able to meet someone where they are — and walk them to where they want to go.

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The reckoning — and the realization

In 2025, I was laid off from my role as an Implementation Specialist. I found another position quickly — Support Team Manager — and was laid off from that one a few months later. It became clear that the tech industry’s instability wasn’t a blip. It was a new normal. And AI was at the center of it.

I started using AI in every part of my life — writing emails, planning, researching, learning, and bridging the gap between what I knew and what I needed to know. It worked. It worked remarkably well. But learning how to use it was a different story.

I spent hundreds of hours watching content creators. I paused and rewound constantly, trying to catch details that seemed trivial to them but were invisible walls to me. The information was real and valuable — but these creators, however knowledgeable, had never been trained to teach. They’d learned to perform for social media algorithms, not for the person sitting alone at their laptop, confused and trying not to fall further behind.

They knew the technology deeply. But their communication style couldn’t reach everyone. That gap — that’s where I found my purpose.

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My philosophy: AI is for everyone

Knowing how to use AI is rapidly becoming a basic life skill — like knowing how to use a search engine or a smartphone. But right now, most of the people teaching it are talking to people who already know the language.

There’s an enormous group being left behind: people who are curious, capable, and motivated, but who need someone to slow down and explain the details that everyone else takes for granted. That’s who I’m here for.

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You don’t need a tech background

You don’t need to know how to code. You need someone who actually knows how to teach — and who won’t make you feel behind for not knowing what no one ever showed you. Sessions are one-on-one, built around your goals, and paced entirely for you.