Portland - Vancouver

Angeline Hood - Owner

Originally from San Diego, Angeline lived in the Tri-Cities for over nine years before relocating to Vancouver in summer 2019. In California, she worked with several nonprofits, assisting individuals with job training. Between 2010 and 2014 Angeline worked for two tutoring companies, as well as tutoring privately before creating Eclipse Tutoring.

Angeline completed her Bachelor degree at Heritage University in mathematics, with a secondary teaching certification in 2015. She attained an upper percentile score of 284 out of 300 on the required WEST-E exam, showcasing her mastery of mathematics. Angeline taught high school math at Kamiakin High School within the Kennewick School District for four years. In 2019 she completed her Master of Science in mathematics at Montana State University with an emphasis in math education. She currently teaches high-school math within the Portland School District. Angeline has experience with various ages and backgrounds, including persons with disabilities. She has a passion for languages (with knowledge in Spanish, French, and German,) a love for mathematics, and is an avid reader. In her leisure Angeline enjoys writing and doing puzzles.

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Pam Bisconer - Primary Regional Tutor

Pam is originally from North Dakota but has lived in Washington State for many years. She received her Bachelor degree in business and communications from the University of Washington, and is an avid Huskies football fan. Pam studied human resource management at Seattle Pacific University and graduated with a Master degree in HR. Pam was in honors math and English in high school. She is in the midst of her eighth year of tutoring and loves helping students learn. She also mentors middle school age children through United Way. In her spare time, Pam enjoys hiking, working out, dancing, water skiing, and tennis. 

Lucas Gray - Tutor

Lucas grew up in a city in Northern Illinois called DeKalb, where he also attended Northern Illinois University. During college he worked as a tutor helping student athletes with everything from English to math, science, business, and programming. After completing his Bachelor of Science in finance, he lived for two years in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he worked for a reverse mortgage company. Later upon having moved to the PNW, he rediscovered his passion for tutoring and helping others. In his free-time you will likely find him reading, hiking, or completing the daily crossword. He loves checking out new movie releases. His favorite film is Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.

Tess Frisque - Tutor

Tess was born and raised in Bozeman, Montana. After graduating from Bozeman High School, they pursued their Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lewis & Clark College, where they also currently compete on the college speech and debate team. Before moving to Portland, Tess was a camp counselor for six years at Camp Equinox Summer Theatre Camp. It was there they discovered their passion for teaching. More recently, they were a research assistant for a study conducted by Lewis & Clark College and OMSI through the Living Laboratory project. In their free time Tess likes to play tabletop games and video games, bouldering at Circuit gym, and attempt any and all creative pursuits, including drawing, painting, photography, fabric arts/sewing, and cosplay.

Suzan Heglin - Tutor

Suzan was raised in California and has travelled widely. She holds a Bachelor’s from the University of California, San Diego with majors in communications and psychology. She took the full science curriculum and graduate level classes in sensation and perception. Her career has been in research and as a writer and she taught at a technical college, as well as tutoring science and other subjects. On a personal note she is an environmentalist, a mom, loves dancing, hiking, making music, and traveling. She is a lifelong learner and strives to bring insight and joy to the learners she works with.

Faith Miller - Tutor

Faith is from the Portland area. She is currently studying at the University of Portland to get her BS in Civil Engineering. Faith enjoys math and has knowledge in all levels of high school math, she also has knowledge in some AP classes, mainly history and some science. She enjoys tutoring and helping other kids learn by explaining concepts in different ways to make them more easily understood. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors and with her family.

Katelyn Paz - Tutor

Katelyn has lived all over the Western United States and has been teaching for six years. As a swim instructor, while completing her bachelor’s in biology and English at the University of Idaho her passion for teaching was a splashing success. She has since taught as an English language assistant in Spain, co-teaching various subjects k-12.  Katelyn has recently moved to Portland and is working toward becoming a speech language pathologist. She is always looking for ways to connect with the community and currently partners with an international homestay company connecting American families with French students. Her down time is spent absorbing her love of the outdoors, additionally she likes to practice American Sign Language, Spanish, and French.

Emma Kurth - Tutor

Originally from Germany, Emma moved to the States during her middle school years. She graduated from Coastal Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science in applied physics and with a minor in applied mathematics. She recently moved to Portland, Oregon to pursue her Master of Science in medical physics. Emma has always had a passion discovery and elucidating the unknown. Her wish is to be a radiation therapy physicist to eventually help people with the science she is studying. Outside of school, Emma enjoys playing the piano, adventuring, playing tennis, and working out. 

Francoise Brun-Cottan - Tutor

Everything Francoise learned about successful studying was instilled long ago by an amazing mentor. She learned how to understand assignments, organize study materials, extract pertinent details from content materials, construct well-reasoned essays and reports, substantiate conclusions, argue convincingly, and most importantly, to have fun, and get excited about exploring unknown territories. These skills apply not only to particular subject matter but span across multiple learning opportunities. And they have served Francoise well through college, graduate work and through multiple occupations including: university teaching assistant, social worker, newsletter editor, non-profit community facilitator, award winning motion picture story developer, and foundational researcher for government agencies as well as Fortune 500 companies.

Francoise seeks to teach students struggling with their class assignments to help develop better study skills. Her experience working with people of different ages, occupations, cultures and education backgrounds has shown her the importance of making people feel comfortable, empowered and open to successfully overcoming personal roadblocks to learning and doing. Francoise’s expertise as a tutor involves not simply mastering facts but rather igniting excitement within the learning experience itself. Though the immediate focus may be to master current assignments, her goal is to foster a lifelong joy of learning.

Eric Enslow - Tutor

Erik was born in Portland, and is attending the University of Portland majoring in civil engineering with a Spanish minor. Erik loves to teach and he is constantly improving upon his approach to bring new insights to his tutoring clients. Erik’s favorite subject is math and tries his best to help others enjoy it as well. He has teaching experience with students of all ages in various math classes. His goal is to help students be the best they can be and to succeed academically. In his free time, Erik enjoys learning new languages and spending time outdoors.

Grayson Teals - Tutor

Grayson grew up in eastern Washington before venturing out to California to earn a Bachelor’s degree in environmental earth sciences at the University of California Berkeley in 2022. While an undergraduate student he led two chemistry courses as a classroom instructor. Grayson values connecting education with each student directly and ensuring that learning is accessible for students of all educational backgrounds.

Grayson is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in teaching (secondary science education) as he continues to pursue his love of teaching in larger classroom settings. Along with teaching, Grayson enjoys hiking outdoors, writing various audio dramas and playing pickleball with his friends and family. 

Ilana Schachter - Tutor

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Ilana has always been passionate about STEM subjects and education. She received her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in nutritional sciences and then went on to continue with her dietetic internship at Oregon Health and Science University. She has been tutoring for the past five years and enjoys forming relationships with her students and learning from them as well. She is very excited to continue encouraging her students by affirming their successes. While not engaging with work or school, Ilana enjoys cooking, reading, going to the movies, and yoga.

Michael Johnson - Tutor

Michael was born in California before moving up to Washington during middle school. He is currently studying at Washington State University, Vancouver in pursuit of a bachelor's in mechanical and electrical engineering. Michael has a deep love for math that he tries his best to make that passion infectiously relatable to others. This extends through his teaching where his history includes tutoring diverse ages and backgrounds. In his free time, Michael enjoys building model kits, cooking, and watching movies.