Amy Milner Gould — Founder, Math Tutor

Amy fell in love with numbers at an early age, intrigued by number games, puzzles, and the ability to do math in her head. Two advanced placement Calculus classes in high school further convinced Amy that hers would be a life of numbers; she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. degree in Actuarial Mathematics. Amy spent the next 10 years in the corporate world as an actuary for insurance companies and accounting firms, which was a satisfying but not wholly rewarding career. After the birth of her son and a well-timed restructuring of the company she worked for, Amy decided to change careers and become a tutor. Since 2003, she has been infectiously sharing her love of numbers with students from middle school through college, and enjoying every minute of it.

Veronica Norber — Tutor

Veronica Norber is a native Spanish speaker from Argentina, who enjoys sharing her language and culture with others. For the 12 years that she has been in the United States, she has been teaching Spanish to children and adults. Veronicaís skills vary from coaching students and helping them with their school work to teaching corporate Spanish classes. Veronica is also a certified medical interpreter and enjoys interpreting in different fields in order to help people overcome language and culture barriers. Veronica has succeeded in conveying her passion for the Spanish language to her students in a manner that inspires her students with a genuine desire to learn.

Christine Norton — Tutor

Chris has always loved math and science. She remembers thinking that borrowing and carrying were especially exciting in first grade. In high school, Chris took extra math and science courses, doubling up one year in math courses and the next year in science courses. She started college as a biology major and later decided that her love of math outweighed her interest in science and she graduated with a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a 4.0 GPA. Chris tutored fellow classmates in chemistry, biology, physics, and math courses throughout both high school and college, and discovered a love of teaching. After college, Chris taught math for two years with the Peace Corps. After returning to the United States, Chris again began tutoring students in science and math courses. In addition to tutoring, she recently helped to teach an AP chemistry class.

Sarah Blink Polakow, PhD — Tutor

Sarah's interest in science, medicine and how the body functions began at a very early age. While attending Knox College, she majored in Biochemistry and fell in love with research. She worked as a technician at Northwestern University for two years studying breast cancer and immunology before attending the University of Chicago to earn a Ph.D. in Immunology. Her dissertation research focused on mechanisms which regulate inflammation in the lung which has implications for how allergy is treated. Currently, Sarah is a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern utilizing models of Multiple Sclerosis in order to better understand this autoimmune disease.

Elizabeth Yonan — Tutor

Elizabeth graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. degree in Communicative Disorders. She is currently finishing her Master of Arts in Teaching at National-Louis University and will be certified to teach kindergarten through ninth grade. Elizabeth has also spent her time at college working as a Applied Behavior Analysis therapist where she did therapy with an autistic child, privately out of his home. She has always loved working with children and teaching them in any way possible. Her specialty is with kindergarten through fifth grade in areas such as reading, writing, mathematics, science and health.