Teachers

All of the instructors at Omega Teaching have graduated from one of the top universities in the country and have had high-paying jobs in various industries. Omega teachers know what it takes to succeed both academically and professionally. Please meet a few of our qualified teachers.

Mary DeSouza -- Founder
Mary graduated from MIT with a bachelors and masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She has over 10 years of teaching experience including: designing courses and teaching as an adjunct faculty at UMASS, teaching math and computers at a private school on the Peninsula, TAing Discrete Math at MIT, developing curriculum and teaching high school computer science, planning all materials and teaching Advanced Algebra and Geometry classes, private tutoring and teaching Kaplan LSAT courses, and teaching middle school math, elementary school reading, and even kindergarten science. In addition, Mary worked in the technology space in Product Management, Strategy, Marketing, and Engineering for many companies including Edusoft, Oracle, and supply chain startups.

Brandi Thomas
Brandi graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Chemistry. She taught special education classes at the elementary school level as a Teach for America corp. member, and she currently teaches and tutors in areas from special education to LSAT preparation. Additionally, Brandi has three years experience doing laboratory research in the areas of gene therapy and protein folding.

Steve Hassani
Steve received his bachelors degree in astronomy from Caltech and his masters degree in physics from Princeton. Currently, he is a physics PhD candidate at Princeton specializing in particle phenomenology. At Princeton, Steve taught numerous courses in physics with varied enrollment from high school students up to graduate students. With colleagues from Caltech, Princeton, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Steve has conducted research in both theoretical astrophysics and particle theory. Steve has the great honor of having served on the United States Physics Team in 1999.

Annika Todd
Annika graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley with a BA in both Economics and Molecular & Cell Biology. She is currently working toward a PhD in Economics at Stanford, with a focus on experimental financial markets. She has been tutoring and teaching pre-calculus, single and multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, statistics, and economics classes for five years.

Ayla Nereo
Ayla graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Italian language. She has had extensive tutoring and mentoring experience with students from grades 2 through 12, in both one-on-one private tutoring settings and with tutoring groups such as Ravenswood Reads. Ayla has a strong background in writing, reading, general humanities, and social sciences, and has also tutored students in math, English language, organization and study skills.

Chris Sanchez
Christopher graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with BAs in Economics and Integrative Biology. With over 9 years of tutoring experience, Chris has had the privilege of teaching, tutoring, and mentoring students ranging from K-college. He has served as an undergraduate teaching assistant at UC Berkeley, has tutored for UC Berkeley's Biology Scholars Program, has worked for many private tutoring companies, and has served as a mentor/tutor/instructor for UC Berkeley's Upward Bound, an outreach program targeting at-risk inner-city high school students.