Barbara Wallace

Zuwena (she/her) has over seven years of coaching experience on an international scale. From tutoring at the University of Texas at San Antonio to teaching English through various institutions in the Trans-Himalayan region, Zuwena has worked extensively with students of diverse backgrounds and from different walks of life. She has aided her students in achieving admission into their first choice graduate, medical, doctoral, law, and other programs, as well as on their theses and dissertations for those same programs. Zuwena holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certification. Having made the leap from her local state university to her first choice master’s program, Zuwena has a unique understanding of the inner workings of Oxbridge and Ivy League institutions. She believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve their goals, no matter their background, and this belief she enacts through coaching. Outside of coaching, Zuwena volunteers for a non-profit in sustainability data analytics, mentors the youth in her community, and teaches English to speakers of other languages. She spends her free time bouldering, pursuing the arts, and reading everything she can get her hands on.