About Maria Harmon

HEAD TUTORING

With an MIT degree and love of all things STEM, Maria knows the value of curiosity and its power inside and outside the classroom. She attended a vocational high school, studying under electricians for 4 years. Her Environmental Engineering degree led her to visit farmers in India, get dirty with waste-pickers in Nicaragua, and chase volcanic smog around Hawaii.

Yet every experience has built her passion for unlocking student potential. Since 2011, she has continually tutored, first for work-study, then the AmeriCorps program City Year, then as a full-time career.

Maria has a passion for unlocking potential not only in grades and conceptual understanding, but also in self-esteem and the joy of learning. She loves to help students combine vulnerability and effort to invigorate their academic lives as well as their emotional, social, and/or faith lives. In any given tutoring session, you may find Maria:

  • Becoming overly enthusiastic about percents and fractions
  • Convincing skeptics that tests are fun, or
  • Sharing openly about life lessons she wished had been taught in school.

Fun Facts: Maria is a jack of all trades. She is quite handy around the house, runs a chocolate-art-and-board-game company, sings in an a cappella group, and frequently beats her mother and husband at card games. She is very involved in her church, especially in the Hospitality ministry, Partakers: College Behind Bars mentorship program, and Transformational Listening class series.