Meet our Tutors!

2023-2024 Student Leaders

The Skyline Writing Center is a student-run, student-centered program that puts tutors in important decision-making and organizational roles.

Each year, Writing Center students are selected to serve as program leaders to mentor and train tutors, maintain our partnerships, organize the publication of Teen Spirit, lead our social media and marketing, and develop exceptional events, like our International Write-In for Change.

Our 2023-2024 student leaders are Alicia Dyer, Gianna Falcicchio-Wall, Lily Hescheles, Joshua Lee, and Will Pace.

Previous Student Leaders

2022-2023: Salsabeel Hodge, Avivah Mitchel, El Myers, Dylan Schueler and Nina Taleb Bendiab.
2021-2022: Peter Cohn, Sydney Cunningham, Caitlyn Donnelly, Salsabeel Hodge.
2020-2021: Erin Page, Sophie Reznick, Elizabeth Smith, Jocelyn Valenzuela
2019-2020: Alison MacGillivray, Gianna Shipp, Madeleine Van Delden
2018-2019: Emma Rose Carpenter, Carsten Finholt, Isabella Preissle
2017-2018: Brigette Bauer, Bailey Christensen, Madeline Small
2016-2017: Anne Boyd, Christopher Morgan-Martin, Star Su
2015-2016: Skylar Burkhardt
2014-2015: Adriana Hassan

Writing Center Houses

The Writing Center’s House system is a tiered mentoring system designed to create a more personalized climate for tutors in the Writing Center so that they can use their voice, find a home, and receive individual feedback and mentoring. Each of our student leaders mentors a group of 8-10 of their Writing Center peers throughout the year to help Writing Center feel like a team and to ensure that all tutors can be at their very best while collaborating with their classmates.

Teams 2023-2024:

Greenhouse led by Joshua

Peep and the Big Wide Writing Center led by Alicia

The Fast and Furious led by Lily

Marshall Mathers on Mars Spitting Bars With His Mars Bars led by Gia

Meet Our Third Trimester Tutors!

1st Hour

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**Sophia** is a kind, trusting tutor that loves to pursue thoughts and emotions through writing. Her favorite forms of writing are personal narratives and argumentative pieces. Sophia can also help with ASL 1-3. She is also very strong in psychology and plans to study in this field. Outside of school she spends majority of her time in the pool. She is a swimmer and water polo player. Sophia also enjoys hanging out with friends and rewatching her favorite movie, Mamma Mia.
**Nithila** is a ambitious, kind tutor that is passionate about writing as a tool of expression. She is a junior and has been tutoring for two years. She loves to read historical fiction and classics, and her favorite things to write are argumentative, informative and research essays. She has taken most APs at Skyline, so feel free to ask her for help with anything! She is also trilingual, able to help anyone with Hindi and Tamil. Outside of the Writing Center, she leads Skyline Asian American Youth Club, participates avidly in Model United Nations, as well as row for Skyline on its crew team.

2nd Hour

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**Will** is an avid worker with a passion for sports and wearing brown. He has triple the english credits that are needed to graduate, and he wouldn’t want it any other way. he is experienced in many forms of writing, and is always willing to help with a smile. When it comes to having fun, he is the best, and writing is no exception.
**Gia** is a senior who is extremely passionate about bringing out people’s best work and putting it on the page. When she’s not reading or writing, you can find her working on Skyline Theatre’s newest production, becoming a vegetable while playing the critically acclaimed mobile app Hay Day, reading to her cat (named Mouse!) and dancing barefoot in the rain to the Grateful Dead! Gia also has skills in American Sign Language up to year 4 and loves history. So if you have any ASL gloss writing projects, history reports, or just want to overanalyze songs by hippies from the 1960s: she’s your gal!
**Rylee** is a positive, patient, and adaptive tutor. She is a senior at Skyline who likes writing non-fiction and factual based essays. Rylee has also taken up to ASL 3 if you need help with your assignments in ASL. Outside of school, she likes to work in the service industry at Mani Osteria & Isalita Cantina. Rylee also enjoys walking/hiking with her 1 year old Bernese Mountain Dog, and watch Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix.

Bottom row, left to right:
Hello! I’m **Levi!** I am a Sophomore and I’m so happy to help you with whatever you need! I absolutely love creative writing, for I typically write in such a way. So, if you ever need help on such thing, you can always come to me. I don’t specifically tutor in this topic, for I can help with many more. Yet, I’m not the best with vocabulary, but I’ll try my best!

I promise I don’t bite.
**Lexie** is a Senior at Skyline and a returning and invested tutor. She’s someone who has always loved writing stories and admires how creative literature allows people to be. She loves reading fiction and mystery books, and doesn’t normally procrastinate writing essays for classes. Lexie has taken AP Lang and is currently in AP Lit, so she is open and welcoming to any questions someone may have pertaining to those classes. Aside from her love for writing, she enjoys going to the gym or grabbing coffee with friends, and always returns home to a good book. Lexie is the most excited to finish out her year in the writing center!!
**Ava** is a Senior at Skyline High School and has been in Writing Center for three years now. She took AP Lang last year and looks forward to working with people on creative and analytical writing (although she can tutor people in any capacity). Outside of school, she enjoys swimming for the Skyline Swim and Dive Team, spending time with family and friends, and playing with her two dogs.
**Belzora** is a positive and encouraging tutor that enjoys all kinds of writing, but especially argumentative and informative pieces. She also has experience writing college essays and lab reports, and can help with French 1-4! Outside of school, Belzora enjoys dancing, going on drives with friends, and playing with her dog, Zola.

3rd Hour (LL)

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**Nico** (left) is a Junior at Skyline, with a passion for film, music, and literature. This is his first year in writing center. Nico has taken AP lang and Latin I and II, and has a strong suit for grammar tutoring. He also enjoys argumentative and creative writing, and has experience creating serialized webcomics. Outside of the Writing Center, Nico can also be found participating in Skyline Theatre, hitting the gym, or taking a nap with his two dogs.
**Felix** (right) loves to play soccer and sports in general. He is big on shows and movies, his favorites being Adventure Time and Memento. Felix Is a thoughtful and kind tutor who is ready for any challenge. He loves creative writing assignments but Is open to help with anything. He is also in Spanish 5 AP, so if you have any artículos you have been holding off, stop by and knock them out! Whether you’re staring at that blank Google doc or just need a new pair of eyes, he’s here to help!

4th Hour

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Britta is an outgoing, fun, creative tutor who loves to help people succeed. Britta since she got to Skyline has filled her schedule with English classes & joining the Writing Center with the intention to help her peers grow their writing. Britta has taken English 9, English 10, AP LANG, & is taking AP LIT next year. Not only does Britta love writing in her English classes but she enjoys writing beyond that. Additionally, Britta has taken Spanish all three years & can offer help with assignments in that category to. Outside of the writing center Britta plays water polo, started the cuisine club with her peers, is involved with DECA, & Skyline swim.

Spoons is a second year Writing center tutor with a quiet disposition but is happy to help with any form of writing you may be having trouble with. She chose to become a writing center tutor in order to give support to people with similar interests, but this doesn’t stop her from wanting to help as many people as she can. Her personal interests are mainly art related, having grown up drawing and painting, but also adding sound design to the list more recently.

Sydney is a kind, open-minded and trusting tutor that loves to write beyond schoolwork. She has been writing ever since she was little and has not stopped since, her favorite type of writing at the moment is journaling. In terms of in school writing, she loves argumentative and informative essays. She has experience in everything AP Lang and the essays that the class entails. She is a huge horror movie fanatic and loves to go on nature walks. Her special focus in terms of tutoring is finding topics that make people excited, making a what could seem boring assignment, a fun one.

My name is Arjun! I am a junior who enjoys writing, reading literature and poetry, math, chess, and fencing. I really like writing that is considered philosophical or introspective. Literary psychology and exploring humans through writing are also favorites. I can work with any type of writing that people need help with; I am fluent in Hindi and Odia, and I know a bit of French (taking it at Skyline). I enjoy reading genres like classical, and my favorite writer would probably have to be Dostoevsky. I look forward to working with the other tutors during this trimester!