Ian was born and raised in Raleigh, attending high school at Cardinal Gibbons where he was awarded the National Merit Scholarship for his PSAT and SAT scores. He graduated with a BA in Journalism from Elon University in 2014, and has been helping students with subject tutoring and test prep for almost a decade, beginning with Mindspire in 2016. In 2021, Ian went back to school to become an industrial electrician, but out of a genuine passion for teaching and learning, has continued tutoring students across a range of subjects and admissions tests.
As a tutor, his greatest satisfaction comes from helping struggling students demystify math, breaking it down into the smaller pieces they can understand, and recombining them in a way that hugely simplifies what seemed impossible to grasp. In his free time, Ian enjoys playing piano, reading, working in his garden, and looking forward to the upcoming birth of his daughter.