AT FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Instructors and Staff
- President
- Co - Director and Co - Founder of the Math Prize for Girls Contest
- President and Founder of Advantage Testing, Inc
- President and Founder of the Advantage Testing Foundation and of Advantage Testing, Inc
- President and Founder, Advantage Testing
Arun Alagappan is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University. In law school, Arun served on the board of editors of the Harvard International Law Journal and volunteered at numerous public service organizations. Later, Arun worked briefly at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and then for a year as a Federal Law Clerk to The Honorable Judge Nelson of The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Arun has prepared thousands of students for tests such as the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE and MCAT; he also taught in the Mathematics Department of Harvard College and at a learning disabilities center in New York City. At Harvard, the Dean of the College awarded Arun a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates.
In 1986, Arun founded Advantage Testing, Inc. and has served as its president since. He serves on the boards of trustees of Prep for Prep, served as vice president of the board of trustees of LEDA, and is president of the Advantage Testing Foundation.
Arun Alagappan is the President and Founder of the Advantage Testing Foundation and of Advantage Testing, Inc. He is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. At Princeton, he won the Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics. Mr. Alagappan sat on the Board of Editors of the Harvard International Law Journal, served as Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked briefly at the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City. He was a Teaching Fellow in Harvard's Department of Mathematics and was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates from the Dean of the College. Mr. Alagappan serves on the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep and on the Leadership Council of LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America). The goals of these organizations are to nurture the academic and leadership potential of exceptional students of modest means and to increase the socioeconomic diversity of students at leading colleges and universities.
Beth Nash has a longstanding record of promoting positive social change through scholarly work and philanthropic pursuits. She is particularly interested in championing leadership roles for traditionally underrepresented groups including women and girls. Ms. Nash was a founding board member of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. In 2015, A Better Balance presented her with a "Distinguished Leadership Award" in recognition of her founding the NYU School of Law's Carr Center for Reproductive Justice. Ms. Nash co-founded and served as principal of her own investment firm. She had previously worked at Goldman Sachs and, subsequently, at CREF. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds graduate degrees from Columbia Business School and NYU.
BK Fulton is an award-winning filmmaker and author of 11 books. In 2017, he founded Soulidifly Productions, an integrative film, stage, and TV production company whose mission is to promote a more inclusive narrative in major media. BK is a principal with Ralph Sampson in Winner's Circle Ventures, a $100MM+ strategic investment company benefiting women and minorities. Prior to becoming a full-time author and media entrepreneur, BK was Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region for Verizon Communications, Inc., and President of Verizon Virginia and West Virginia. BK holds a Bachelor's degree in urban affairs and planning with two years of computer engineering and architecture from Virginia Tech, a Master of Science degree from the New School's Milano School of Management, a Professional Certificate in Policy Analysis from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Juris Doctorate in intellectual property, electronic commerce and telecommunications law from New York Law School.
Brianna Sturkey is a second-year law student at New York University School of Law. As a Root-Tilden-Kern and Furman Academic Scholar, she is passionate about pursuing a legal career in property law, focusing on the intersection of neighborhood equity and land use regulation. Currently, Brianna is a research assistant for Professor Vicki Been-the NYU Furman Center faculty director-helping to investigate racial equity concerns in neighborhood development. Additionally, she is employed as a summer associate at the New York Green Bank, helping to transform clean energy financing by targeting investments in sustainable infrastructure in disadvantaged communities in New York. Next year, Brianna is excited to join the NYU Review of Law & Social Change Journal as a staff editor and participate in the year-long Eviction Defense and Tenant Protection Externship.
Brianna graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 2020 with a dual degree in sociology and human rights. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a senior litigation paralegal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and the New York Civil Liberties Union. During both tenures, she worked closely with general counsel, partners, executive directors, and senior associates to provide litigation support for high-priority cases.
Chandler Rankin attended the University of Cincinnati, where he received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, with distinction. During his undergraduate years, he served as student body president, representing student interests to university administrators, university trustees, and state legislators. For his advocacy efforts, he was awarded the Presidential Leadership Medal of Excellence, the highest honor the university bestows upon its graduates.
After college, Chandler moved to San Francisco, CA, where he worked as a product manager at Meta, leading teams that built products to improve experiences for content creators across Facebook and Instagram. He also served as an after-school program tutor for Breakthrough San Francisco.
In August 2023, Chandler began his first year at Harvard Law School, where he is an editor of the Harvard Law Review, a Civil Procedure teaching fellow for Professor I. Glenn Cohen, a clerkships committee chair for the Harvard Black Law Students Association, and professional development director for the Harvard Association for Law and Business. This summer, he has split his time as a legal intern in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and a 1L summer associate at Susman Godfrey LLP. Upon graduation, Chandler hopes to clerk for a federal judge and embark on a legal career that allows him to maximize his impact across the public and private sectors. Chandler credits TRIALS for showing him the way to a legal education and providing the tools to launch his legal career.
Chisato Kimura was born in Daito, Japan, and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. She is a rising 3L at Yale Law School, focusing on the intersection of race and human rights in law. She served as an executive editor for features in the Yale Journal of International Law and as one of the student directors of the Schell Center for Human Rights. She is a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, and Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine. Additionally, she serves as a student mentor for the Yale Launchpad Scholars Program. Chisato is a proud member of the TRIALS 2021 cohort and had the honor of serving as a teaching assistant for the 2022 cohort.
Before law school, Chisato attended Mount Holyoke College, where she received her B.A., magna cum laude, in International Relations. Her honors thesis on the elimination of misconduct by United Nations peacekeepers won the Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis in International Relations.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Chisato will be a fellow at the MacArthur Justice Center, where she is excited to work on a project to combat the repression of social movements by the criminal legal system.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan served as Vice President of the Advantage Testing Foundation's original Board of Trustees from 2007-2009, a position she resigned upon her nomination for Solicitor General by President Barack Obama. Prior to her nomination, she was the Dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. In addition to her service as a Trustee of the Foundation, Justice Kagan was an original partner of the Advantage Testing Foundation's TRIALS law school preparation program. Her contributions in shaping that program will continue to benefit outstanding scholars of underrepresented backgrounds for many years to come. Justice Kagan is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Math at MIT
- Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gigliola Staffilani is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Math from the University of Bologna. She received her Ph.D in Math from the University of Chicago. She was a professor at Stanford, Princeton, Brown, and Harvard before joining MIT in 2002. She was a co-organizer of the Women in Mathematics conference at MIT. Her research interests are partial differential equations and harmonic analysis.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Instructors and Staff
- TRIALS Associate Director and LSAT Instructor, Advantage Testing
Hector graduated magna cum laude from California State University with a B.A. in Philosophy, Political Science, and Psychology (Triple-Major) and then earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Throughout his education, Hector has been recognized for excellence, receiving, among other awards, the Horatio Alger Association National Scholarship, the UCLA Law Fellow Award, and the New York Model UN Distinguished Delegation Award. Before joining Advantage Testing, Hector served as chief counsel for the Office of the Vice Mayor of Cambridge, provided legal advocacy at the Criminal Justice Institute of Harvard Law School, and worked for a Boston-based venture capital firm. He has passed the New York State bar examination.
Hector has served an integral role in the legal community-co-chairing the Harvard Latino Law, Policy, and Business Conference and speaking at many forums, including Princeton University, UCLA Law School, NYU Law School, Harvard Business School, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Prior to law school, Hector taught public school students diagnosed with learning and emotional disabilities, coached and tutored for the Boys & Girls Club of America, and completed his psychology internship at a center for seniors suffering from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Math at the University of California San Diego
- Professor of Mathematics at the University of California
Ioana Dumitriu is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. She is a summa cum laude graduate of New York University, receiving a B.A. in Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at MIT. She was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She was the first-ever woman to be named a Putnam Fellow for being one of the top five scorers on the Putnam math exam. She was awarded the Leslie Fox Prize for being the top young numerical analyst. Her research area is numerical analysis and random matrices.
Job Titles:
- Private Investor
- Treasurer
J. Tomilson Hill is a private investor whose five-decade career has spanned both investment banking and the asset management business. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone's Hedge Fund Solutions Group and Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group, where he was also on the Board of Directors. Mr. Hill is also the founder of the Hill Art Foundation, a public exhibition and education space in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations's Investment Committee and the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Center Theater. He serves as Chairman of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's Board of Trustees. In addition, Mr. Hill is a member of the Investment Committee of the Smithsonian Institution's endowment.
Jacquelyn Stone is a graduate of Harvard Law School with decades of experience advising clients on government relations as well as regulatory and immigration matters. She worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives after obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. A partner at McGuireWoods, Jackie is the former chair of her firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is a former member of the Board of Partners. Jackie has been recognized as a Virginia "Super Lawyer" and as one of Virginia's "Legal Elite" in government relations and immigration law by Virginia Business magazine. In 2018, Jackie was honored with the prestigious National Women in Law Award for Lifetime Achievement by Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel, leading ALM publications.
Job Titles:
- LSAT Instructor, Advantage Testing
Jay Stull is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bowdoin College. He received his A.B. in Government with a minor in English Literature. Jay is the recipient of the Michael Francis Micciche III Memorial Award and of the Philip Henry Brown First Prize in Extamporaneous Composition. Jay studied at Stanford Law School, where he received the Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Award for brief and oral argument. He previously served as an analyst for the U.S. Department of Justice's International Development Programs in Asia. Jay has prepared more than 1,000 students for the LSAT.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- President Emeritus of New York University
- President Emeritus, NYU / Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law
John Edward Sexton is the President Emeritus of New York University, as well as the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School's Dean Emeritus. Dr. Sexton is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the Association of American University Presidents and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Board of the Institute of International Education. While Dean of the Law School he was President of the Association of American Law Schools. Dr. Sexton received a B.A. in History from Fordham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion from Fordham University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before joining NYU, he served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals.
John Edward Sexton, vice president of the Advantage Testing Foundation, is the president emeritus of New York University, as well as the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School's dean emeritus.
John is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Association of American University Presidents and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the boards of the New York State Commission on Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Institute of International Education, and the Association for a Better New York. While dean of the Law School, he was president of the Association of American Law Schools.
In July 2008, John was named as Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, the national order of the Legion of Honor of France. In March 2015, he received the TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence, recognizing outstanding leadership on the part of a college or university president or chancellor. In 2012, he received the NASPA President's Award, which is given annually to a college or university leader who has, over a sustained period of time, advanced the quality of student life on campus by supporting student affairs staff and programs. In 2014, the Institute for International Education awarded him its Dugan Prize for "distinguished work in education."
John received a B.A. in History from Fordham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion from Fordham University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he served as the Supreme Court editor for the Harvard Law Review.
Before joining NYU, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Dean of Harvard Law School
John Manning is the Dean of Harvard Law School. He is also the Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law. He served as the law school's Deputy Dean from 2013-2017, and from 2007-2017, Dean Manning was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. He serves on the Harvard University Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging and on the HarvardX faculty committee. Dean Manning is a prolific scholar of public law, focusing on statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law. Most recently, he co-edited Hart & Wechsler's Federal Courts and the Federal System (7th ed., 2021) and co-authored Criminal Law, a Critical Approach Book, which will be released October 2022. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Dean Manning was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Manning is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
John F. Manning is Harvard University's interim provost and the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (on leave). He joined the HLS faculty in 2004 and was Bruce Bromley Professor of Law from 2007 to 2017 and Deputy Dean from 2013 to 2017. Prior to coming to Harvard, John was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he began teaching in 1994. John teaches administrative law, federal courts, legislation and regulation, separation of powers, and statutory interpretation. His writing focuses on statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law.
John is a co-editor of Hart & Wechsler's Federal Courts and the Federal System (6th ed., 2009) (with Richard Fallon, Daniel Meltzer, and David Shapiro) and Legislation and Regulation (2nd ed., 2013) (with Matthew Stephenson).
Prior to entering teaching, John served as an assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice (1991-94), an associate in the D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (1989-91), and an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (1986-88). He served as a law clerk to Honorable Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States (1988-89) and to Honorable Robert H. Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1985-86). Manning graduated from Harvard Law School in 1985 and Harvard College in 1982. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Interim Dean, Harvard Law School
Currently serving as Harvard Law School's interim dean, John Goldberg is an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy. He joined the Law School faculty in 2008 and served as a deputy dean from 2017 to 2022. Previously, he was a faculty member of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was associate dean for Research (2006-08).
He is co-author of Recognizing Wrongs (Harvard University Press 2020), Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (5th ed. 2021), and The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts (2010). He has also published dozens of articles and essays in scholarly journals.
John has taught an array of first-year and upper-level courses and has received multiple teaching prizes. An associate reporter for the American Law Institute's Fourth Restatement of Property, John also serves as an advisor to the Third Restatement of Torts. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Tort Law and Legal Theory, and in 2009, he was chair of the Torts and Compensation Systems Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
John received his J.D. in 1991 from New York University School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review. John clerked for Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York and Supreme Court Justice Byron White. He earned his B.A. with high honors from the College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University. He also holds an M. Phil. in Politics from Oxford University and an M.A. in Politics from Princeton University. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, he briefly practiced law in Boston.
Job Titles:
- Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at Value Insight Partners
Lauren Frank is Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at Value Insight Partners, a fund that invests in value-oriented hedge funds. Prior to joining Value Insight Partners, Ms. Frank served as Director of Business Development and Strategy for the WPP Group. Ms. Frank is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. A young leader in education philanthropy, Ms. Frank formerly served on the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Lower East Side and is the former Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Bronx.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Math at Harvard
- Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
Lauren K. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, where she received her A.B. in Mathematics. She then completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University, with Distinction. She later received her Ph.D. in Mathematics at MIT. She was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which she used at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research area is algebraic combinatorics. In high school, she was invited to the Mathematical Olympiad Program and the Research Science Institute.
Lauren Simpson represents US and international tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of issues, including corporate governance, formation and structuring, tax and regulatory compliance, operational policies and procedures, fundraising, domestic and international grantmaking, investment activities, and lobbying and political campaign issues, among others. She also advises on establishing and managing relationships between tax-exempt organizations and for-profit entities, including program and mission-related investments, the creation of incubators and accelerators, and licensing and service arrangements. Her clients include private foundations, public charities, social welfare organizations, business leagues, and impact investors.
Job Titles:
- President of Math for America
Maria Klawe is President of Math for America. She received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Alberta. She was a researcher and manager at IBM Research. She was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, serving as Chair of the Computer Science Department and later as Dean of Science. After that, she was Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton. From 2006 to 2023, she was President of Harvey Mudd College. She is a Past President of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- 300th Anniversary University President
- Dean Emeritus, Harvard Law School / Vice President, Board of Trustees
Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University President and former Dean of Harvard Law School. She is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Her recent books include Saving the News (2021) and When Should Law Forgive? (2019). Ms. Minow served on the Independent International Commission for Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Coexistence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her honors include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award, selected by the Harvard Law School Class of 2005, the Holocaust Center Award, 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Toronto, 2006. In 2008, she served on advisory committees addressing legal policy and educational policy for the Obama campaign. Ms. Minow received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.Ed. from Harvard, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.
Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where she served as dean for eight years. She writes and teaches about human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities, digital communications, democracy, privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict.
Martha's books include Saving the News: Why The Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve the Freedom of Speech (2021), When Should Law Forgive? (2019), In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Constitutional Landmark (2010), Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002), and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998).
She co-chairs the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law for the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering and the Access to Justice project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as vice chair of the Legal Services Corporation and as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Countering Violent Extremism and the Independent International Commission Kosovo. She helped to launch Imagine Coexistence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology worked to increase access to the curriculum with digital resources for students with disabilities.
Her honors include lifetime achievement awards from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (2023), the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award from the Women in Legal Education Section of the American Association of Law Schools (2024), and 10 honorary degrees; she was appointed to the post of 300th Anniversary University Professor, one of 25 faculty members recognized for boundary-crossing work.
Martha earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal. She earned a Master's in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Math at Harvard
- Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
Melanie Matchett Wood is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. She received her PhD in math at Princeton. She has set many firsts as a female mathematician. In high school, she was the first-ever girl from the United States to reach the International Math Olympiad, where she earned two silver medals. She received her bachelor's degree from Duke. While there, she was the first American woman to be named a Putnam Fellow for being one of the top five scorers on the Putnam math exam. She is the first female winner of the Morgan Prize for outstanding research in math by an undergraduate. She was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University for one year. Her research is in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. She was named a Five-Year Fellow of the American Institute of Mathematics. She won the Waterman award, a prestigious honor for scientists and mathematicians under the age of 40.
Michael Sipser is the Donner Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. He has been a professor of applied math at MIT since 1980. He was head of the MIT Math Department and dean of the MIT School of Science. He wrote a widely-used textbook on the Theory of Computation. His research area is computational complexity. He is a three-time recipient of the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award.
Job Titles:
- Director and Co - Founder of the Math Prize for Girls
- Director and Co - Founder of the Math Prize for Girls Contest
Ravi Boppana is the director and co-founder of the Math Prize for Girls contest, sponsored by the Advantage Testing Foundation and Jane Street. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT at the age of 22. He was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University, where he received the "Excellence in Teaching" award. Later he was a tenured professor of computer science at New York University, where he received the "Golden Dozen" teaching award. He is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Math Department. He coached the New York State team at MathCounts Nationals. He is a co-author of the textbook on prealgebra published by the Art of Problem Solving.
Job Titles:
- Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law
- Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law
Richard L. Revesz, the AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law, is one of the nation's leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy.
Richard has published 10 books and approximately 80 articles in major law reviews and journals, advocating for protective and rational climate change and environmental policies and examining the institutional contexts in which regulatory policy is made. Since January 2023, he has been on a public service leave, serving as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is part of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
As dean of NYU Law School from 2002 to 2013, Richard increased the size of the full-time faculty by more than 30 percent, recruiting 46 new full-time professors and building the leading faculty groups in many significant areas of law. He raised a record-breaking $550 million to support the Law School's core initiatives and used a significant portion of these resources to enhance the Law School's commitment to equality and inclusion and public interest law. Richard designed and launched the AnBryce Scholarship Program, which gives full-tuition scholarships and other significant institutional support to students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are the first in their families to attend professional school.
Born in Argentina, Richard learned English as a second language and immigrated to the U.S. at age 17. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned a Master's in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a law degree from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Following clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard joined the NYU Law School faculty in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Art of Problem Solving
- President and Founder of the Art of Problem Solving
Richard Rusczyk is the President and Founder of the Art of Problem Solving. In high school, he was a winner of the USA Mathematical Olympiad. He graduated from Princeton University, where he was top five in his class. He worked as a bond trader at D.E. Shaw for four years. He has authored or co-authored seven math textbooks for gifted students. He was a co-creator of the Mandelbrot math competition and is one of the organizers of the USA Mathematical Talent Search. He serves as President of the Art of Problem Solving Foundation, which promotes mathematical problem solving among middle and high school students throughout the United States.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director at Jane Street Capital
- Senior Leader at Jane Street
Sandor is a senior leader at Jane Street who has promoted math education, competition, and access for more than three decades. A Math Olympian in high school, Sandor founded the Mandelbrot Competition with Sam Vandervelde and Richard Rusczyk in 1990. In 1994, he and Richard went on to write and self-publish the seminal two-volume set The Art of Problem Solving, books that continue to have a revolutionary impact on math preparation for ambitious high school students.
Sandor graduated from Princeton University with academic honors in 1994 with a BA in Physics and a certificate in Applied Mathematics. He spent two years as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange before moving to a coordination position on an upstairs trading desk. In that role, he organized trading across a range of technology-focused stocks and index products. Seeing the market spiral upward and then crash spectacularly taught Sandor enduring lessons about markets, human psychology, and risk management.
Sandor joined Jane Street in 2001 and has since led a variety of operations and firmwide initiatives, including architecting the firm's Equity desk, co-founding the Quantitative Research function, expanding recruitment efforts, and undertaking foundational work in developing the firm's risk philosophy. He currently works primarily with the Options desk in a management and business leadership role.
In the mid-2000s, Sandor co-founded the Art of Problem Solving Initiative (AoPSI), a nonprofit focused on bringing powerful resources to high-achieving students who have encountered barriers to success in mathematics. AoPSI's signature program, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), serves talented students across the country starting with summer enrichment programs in 6th and 7th grade and continuing with support through high school and into college.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Instructors and Staff
- Associate Director and LSAT Instructor, Advantage Testing
Sarah Bernbach graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in Classics. She earned a blue ribbon for the highest score in the country on the National Greek Exam. A lifelong New Yorker, Sarah became a teacher following her graduation from college. After detours through work as a pastry chef, fine bookbinder, freelance writer, and costume designer, Sarah returned to the academic world as a tutor at Advantage Testing. Here, every day she continues to feel the marvelous inspiration of working with her many-splendored students and to explore the heights of human expression, the creation of meaning, and the communication of understanding through languages and math.
Seth Chandler Pearson is originally from Syracuse, NY, and is a graduate of Georgia State University in Atlanta, where he received his Bachelor's of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance in 2012. After finishing his undergraduate degree, Seth served as a White House intern in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Presidential Personnel. After leaving the White House, Seth earned his law degree from Duke University School of Law in 2016 and is currently admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Seth began his law career at Foley & Lardner LLP in Boston as a member of the firm's private equity and venture capital practice. As a third-year associate, Seth lateraled to Cooley LLP's Boston office and joined their emerging company/venture capital practice. He is currently a senior associate at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in the Atlanta office, where his practice concentrates on general business and corporate deals with an emphasis on representing emerging growth companies throughout their lifecycle and the venture capital firms and strategic investors that finance these companies. Seth currently leads the FemTech vertical for the healthcare sector, where he concentrates on increasing the firm's footprint in FemTech in the U.S., U.K., and France. Seth also leads the Atlanta and Miami office DEI efforts and is dedicated to enhancing visibility and creating opportunities for diverse individuals within the firm and in the Atlanta and Miami communities.
Seth is actively involved in the Duke Law Alumni Association and the Duke Alumni Association, National and Atlanta chapters. He is on the board of directors of the Duke LGBTQ Alumni Association and is chair of the Duke Black Alumni Association, Atlanta chapter.
Shirley M. Tilghman is the President Emerita of Princeton University. She is a world-renowned scholar of molecular biology who has conducted pioneering research in the field of human genetics. Dr. Tilghman is a member of the National Research Council's committee that set the blueprint for the Human Genome Project and was a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project for the NIH. Prior to being named President of Princeton, she served on the university's faculty for 15 years. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, and the Royal Society of London and is a recipient of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology, and the Genetics Society of America Medal. She is also a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Dr. Tilghman is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University.
Job Titles:
- TRIALS Program Administrator
Vanessa graduated with a B.S. in Human Services from California State University, Fullerton. She served as an event planner chair member for the Human Services Student Association and as a California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) representative for financially disadvantaged students committed to Public Child Welfare. While attending college, she worked for Orange and Fullerton Unified School Districts, where she was recognized for her exceptional progress with students with special needs, and for the Department of Education as a Title 1 Tutor, serving at-risk teens living in group home settings. At Harvard Business School, she was the preschool teacher for the children of M.B.A. students and faculty. Vanessa has extensive management experience at various start-up companies. As a practice manager in a healthcare venture, she continues to help others by creating positive working environments and relationships with doctors, surgery centers, and patients.
As the newest member of the Advantage Testing Foundation, Vanessa is excited to work with students from diverse backgrounds and contribute to the foundation's mission of propelling motivated young leaders toward their law school dreams. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their dog Coco, weightlifting, watching mixed martial arts, leaving positive reviews for restaurants and small businesses, painting, and, most recently, learning digital art.