Our LSAT Teachers
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While competitors pay most of their teachers between $15 and $30 per hour, Knewton pays our teachers $100+ per hour. In addition to teaching live classes, Knewton instructors offer tutoring and real-time chat as well. Because Knewton distributes its live teaching lessons exclusively on the internet, we can offer far more hours of live teaching and tutoring than does the competition. In a Knewton classroom, you don't just have one teacher; you have a team. No more raising your hand only to be ignored. Our teachers answer all your questions in real time, during class or weekly office hours. |
LSAT Teachers
Elana Berger
Elana became interested in education reform in college when she worked on a team that conducted research into students’ views on the future of education. This led her to rural North Carolina, where she taught third grade with Teach for America. After her two years of teaching, she moved up to New York to attend law school at Columbia, where she began teaching some older students, those preparing for the LSAT. Her own serious test chops earned her a 177 LSAT score and a 1500 on the SAT score (790 Verbal and 710 Math.)
Elana's passion for social justice extends beyond education. While in law school, she became interested in international human rights law and worked on issues ranging from maternal mortality to the use of child camel jockeys in the Persian Gulf. The camel jockey campaign was so successful that they now use robots instead.
After a year and a half at a corporate law firm and a stint working for the Obama campaign in Western Pennsylvania, Elana now works as a fellow at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, an organization that's working to develop an effective worldwide response to genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. back to top
Bobby Hodgson
If you're going to face a class full of bright and ambitious LSAT students brimming with questions, you'd better be on your toes. Bobby honed his improvisational skills as a both professional actor and a campaign organizer, as well as a veteran tutor.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Literature, Bobby split his time between the stage and the classroom, where he worked with students on LSAT, SAT, and general subject preparation. He appeared off-Broadway, worked in regional theaters, and, most awesomely, voiced the evil 15-year-old narrator of a Goosebumps audiobook. This naturally led to a job in Las Vegas with the Obama campaign, coordinating LGBT Constituency Outreach for the state of Nevada.
This fall, Bobby will be returning to Harvard as a law student. He's excited to take advantage of their killer Law and Social Change program of study, and hopes to build a career working in the public interest as a civil rights litigator. back to top
Kristen Kennedy
Kristen’s 99th percentile LSAT score and near perfect grades earned her admission to Northwestern School of Law where, as an assistant to the Center for Wrongful Convictions, she helped draft the brief that led to Illinois’ moratorium on the death penalty. Convinced of the power of education and guided by a passion for finding solutions to the world’s environmental crises, Kristen then decided to relocate to Northern California, the center of the sustainability movement.
Kristen joined Testmasters, Inc. in 2002 and in the next four years became one the most sought-after LSAT instructors in the country. She received her M.A. in Sustainability and went on to coordinate logistics for California’s green builder certification program. Her expertise in green event management made her an easy pick for leader of the 2008 Democratic National Convention’s “Green Team.” In her dual role as LSAT Instructor and Sustainability Officer for Knewton, Kristen is thrilled to be with the greenest test preparation company in the industry.
An avid outdoors-person, Kristen has slogged up the highest peaks in CA, CO, OR, HI, and UT. She found her Wilderness Medicine certification particularly useful when she self-diagnosed altitude-inspired delirium and euphoria atop the zenith of Mt. Kilimanjaro at 19,331 ft. back to top
Alex Khurgin
Alex's perfect SAT scores landed him at Amherst College, where he focused on the philosophy of mind and language, arguing that semantic atomism is a more tenable theory of language than is semantic holism.
Before too long, Alex developed a passion for teaching, as it gave him the chance to make esoteric/pretentious information (see previous sentence) relevant and meaningful to people's lives. He has tutored extensively during the last half decade, working with hundreds of students on the SAT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT. His teaching prowess brought him to the attention of Knewton, where he has explained every logic game ever to appear on an LSAT PrepTest.
After hours, Alex's education continues. He is a founding member of an Infinite Jest book club, an avid Donald Barthelme fan, and even something of a writer himself. back to top
Brad McIlquham
Know any good lawyer jokes? How about the one about the law school grad who turns his back on corporate life to run a gang prevention initiative? Brad McIlquham has heard that one, matter of fact, he wrote it. Two years helping high school dropouts and ex-cons get out of gangs, get their lives back on track, and get serious about college—taught this teacher and trainer a few things. Mostly, he learned a valuable lesson about education—it needs to be better for everyone.
With a B.S. in Business (from Miami University) and a J.D. (from DePaul University), Brad McIlquham was already serious about education. As one of the highest rated LSAT, GMAT, GRE, and SAT teachers for the nation's largest test prep company, Brad helped students prepare for academic success while establishing himself as an expert in the classroom. Now Brad McIlquham is serious about changing education. He believes it should be better, and that it should reach all types of students.
As Faculty Director here at Knewton, he is responsible for training our superstar instructors, and cultivating our impact on underserved students in underfunded schools. As an instructor, he is constantly striving to make his classes impactful as well as engaging. What do you call a lawyer trying to make education available to everyone? At Knewton, we call that a revolution... and we're not joking. back to top
Dahn Tamir
Looking for a sure bet? In test preparation it doesn't get much more certain than Dahn Tamir. When one of the leading test prep companies needed someone to bail out two of its largest, and failing, markets they turned to Dahn—a former superstar teacher. Within months he executed an aggressive plan focused on excellent instruction, dynamic course offerings, engaging student experiences, and perhaps most importantly: a robust new standard for hiring, training and developing talent. As a result, Dahn's regional markets grew at an unprecedented pace.
While earning a degree in Logic and Philosophy from UCLA and Cal-Berkeley, Dahn researched the effectiveness and balance of standardized tests for the former Director of Admissions of Harvard University. With a perfect 180 LSAT and a 99th percentile GMAT, Dahn enrolled in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, while starting-up his own online jukebox company.
Over his career in education, Dahn has taught several thousand SAT, GRE, GMAT and LSAT students and trained several hundred teachers and staff members at the world's largest test prep companies. He developed the basic skills curriculum for more than 10,000 students in the City College of New York system and helped American Express produce a world-wide training program for their customer support centers. Yet he is most proud of successfully teaching his mother-in-law to use email. back to top
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