I decided to make a difference in the life of a child by becoming a tutor for students in elementary and middle schools. I have expert knowledge of biology due to my 30-year plus career as a fisheries biologist and natural resource specialist. Following my science career, I felt there was a great need to also help students with their reading skills, so I started volunteering and ultimately worked in an elementary school as a reading mentor and teacher. With my variety of life experiences, I felt tutoring in both biology and reading would be a great way to help students succeed in life.

I am a graduate from Michigan State University with a Masters of Science degree in fish and wildlife biology, and also have a Bachelor's in biology from California State University. I worked hard in college and completed a very novel thesis project on salmon fish quality and demand in the Great Lakes of the United States. After getting my Master's degree, I spent 3 months aboard a West German fishing boat in Alaska which led to a publication about how the boat's factory used fish, which were previously unpopular, to make frozen fillets to sell in the United States and in Europe. I also have a Bachelor's degree in economics in my first college (University of California) when I was not sure what career I wanted to pursue.

I have had a lot of enjoyable experiences using biology I studied in college to carve out a very rewarding science career. I want to use my knowledge and experiences to tutor students in biology which can be a complicated subject. Since I also started a second career as a reading tutor and mentor at the elementary school level, I can also provide tutoring in reading subjects involving early phonics skills (such as letter names, letter sounds, creating words by blending letter names and sounds), longer and more complicated words that students need to know starting in 4th grade, and learning to remember and recall what you read in longer and more complicated stories. It is a known fact that developing your read