Our Faculty

We only hire the best at Elite. Our instructors are experienced, professional teachers, masters in their fields, not college freshmen on a break. Here are a few of the more than 250 professionals who are members of Elite's outstanding faculty.

SUSANNE ANDERSON JD, Case Western Reserve University	ESTHER KANG BS, MA, John Hopkins University	EUGENE NAVAKAS PhD Candidate, UCI
RANDOLF ARGUELLES MA, PhD Candidate, UCLA / Fulbright Scholar 2001-2002	MAYANK KESHAVIAH BA, Dartmouth/ MFA, USC	MICHAEL PHIPPS MA, Stanford
TERRY CALDWELL AP English Teacher, Loyola High School	JULIA KIM BA, UC Berkeley / JD, UC Hastings	EDWARD PINUELA PhD Candidate, UCI
MICHAEL CAPUTO BS, MS, PhD Candidate, USC	FIONA LEE BA, Columbia University	JAMIE SETTLOW BA, Harvard
JUL CHA BS, MS, UCLA	MATTHEW SELDMAN PhD Candidate, UCI	DANIA S. SHELDON PhD, Oxford University
KIMBERLY CHUNG BA Northwestern / PhD Candidate, UCSD	ADAM LOWENSTEIN BA, UCLA / PhD Candidate, UCLA	ANDY SIMPSON BA, Stanford
THOMAS AUSTIN GRAHAM Department of English, UCLA / PhD Candidate, UCLA	JAMES LYNCH AP Calculus Teacher, Villa Park High School	MIN SONG BS, Yale University
DARREN GRODSKY BS, Northwestern	RYAN MALDONADO BA, Northwestern / MFA, USC	JOHN ST. CROIX MPA, Harvard
KARL HAGEN BA, Princeton / MA, UCLA	PHIL MANN BA, Haverford College / JD, UCLA School of Law	CASE TORSTENSON BA, University of Pennsylvania
JESSSICA HAILE BA, Wesleyan University / PhD Candidate, UCI	SHANNA MICKO MFA, USC	ROBERT UTTER Department of Physics, CSU Fullerton
CHRIS HAMILTON Department of English, UCLA / PhD Candidate, UCLA	SHERRY MOLLO IB English Teacher, Nogales High School	BILL WANG BS, UC Berkeley / MS, USC