ILSS

Seng-Dao Yang

Seng is President and Co-Founder of Ivy League Study Skills. She earned a BA from Harvard College and a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has extensive experience in directing and planning conferences and workshops focused on student leadership, college preparation, community service, women’s and girls’ leadership, Asian Pacific American student leadership, and diversity issues. While teaching math for three years in an underserved community, she created and managed an after-school student leadership program and volunteered as an alumni interviewer for students applying to Harvard College. Prior to teaching, she worked as an investment banker with JPMorgan Chase in Hong Kong.

Unwavering in her belief that we can create positive changes in society through the power and promise of education, she is committed to promoting and providing access to high-quality education and leadership development for young people throughout the world, especially for those in impoverished and oppressed communities.

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Peter Tan Keo

Peter is Vice President and Co-Founder of Ivy League Study Skills. He holds a graduate degree in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and another from the University of Chicago, Department of the Social Sciences. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in International Educational Development at Columbia University, Teachers College.

Peter’s work examines the critical intersection of positive youth development, civic education, and globalization. Specifically, his work seeks to strengthen relationships between civil society organizations, public and private schools and government. He has worked in different capacities for programs funded by the USAID (United States Agency for International Development), the US Department of State, and the Department of Defense as an expert consultant for Vyalex Management Solutions, a private management firm in DC.

Peter has worked in some of the most repressed, poverty-stricken countries throughout the world where he has been (and continues to be) a vocal activist against political malfeasance including corruption, impunity, anti-democratic practices, and human rights violation. He is also published in these areas of critical research.

Overseas experiences include Cambodia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and, most recently, in Madagascar. He is fluent in French, Cambodian and English.

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Learning and Leadership Instructors

All of our Learning and Leadership Instructors are extraordinary Ivy League students or graduates who are leaders within their academic learning community, student organizations, and community groups. They excel inside and outside of a classroom, earn superior scores on their standardized exams, and participate in student organizations and/or community activities—all while balancing their personal life and professional responsibilities. They imagine ways they can create and influence positive change and development in the world and seek to utilize and apply their knowledge, creatively and fearlessly, in ways that make this world a better place. And that’s one reason why they’ve chosen to work with our company.

Moreover, they are committed to empowering, motivating, and developing other students to be highly successful critical thinkers and leaders who think and lead with both their heads and their hearts. And that’s one reason why we’ve decided to have them work with us and our ILSS students.

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Seng-Dao Yang

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