Advocacy Associates

Introduction: I serve college-bound students, post-bachelor degree students and applicants to graduate and professional degree programs. With over 20 years of experience as an Ivy League lecturer and administrator, I founded and directed an academic college preparation summer camp for high-ambition, high-achieving college-bound students. I work with talented and motivated high school students starting from college targeting through the application process and finishing with admission to top-tier colleges. I also help college-bound students select which college to attend from multiple-acceptance offers. I offer writing, proofreading and editing. I also help academicians/educators and business people with their writing. It is easier if there is already an existing material to work with and refine but a start-from-scratch approach is possible. I do industry/conference speeches, motivational speeches and graduation commencement speeches. As a regularly-invited speaker, I travel the world (literally) to deliver industry and conference speeches, including a recent international UN conference in Seoul, South Korea. I also speak and teach seminars several times per year at the United Nations HQ in NYC. My speaking travels have taken me all over Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kyoto) as well as Vietnam (Saigon) and Cambodia (Phnom Penh and Siem Reap). I will be traveling to Yale University and Dartmouth College's sister school in Springfield, MO, in October 2015 to deliver the campus-wide keynote and speak at approximately 10 classes. After a 30-year teaching career which required me to lecture for upwards of 3 hours at a time several times per week, I am an experienced and passionate public speaker. I just returned from Honolulu, HI, where I taught a weekend-long seminar, which included many lectures for the state of Hawaii.