Sona Shah | CEO & Founder, My Private Professor
- Sona is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of My Private Professor.
- She serves on several non-profit boards.
Podcast
Overview
Education forms the root of the world’s progress, and it is crucial to ensure educational equity. It emphasizes fairness and justice in education, aiming to eliminate disparities and provide an equal educational experience for all students. In today’s episode, we discuss the role that “My Private Professor” is playing in ensuring educational equity.
[00:40] – About Sona Shah
- Sona is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of My Private Professor.
- She serves on several non-profit boards.
- She has been recognized and felicitated several times.
[03:17] – Tell me more about My Private Professor. What are some areas you provide tuition in?
- My Private Professor is an impact driven educational services company and our goal is to make sure that all students can get access to the resources that they need to succeed.
- We do it through online one-on-one tutoring in virtually every subject; K-12, test prep, grad school, adult language learners etc.
- We started off working with individuals and families and then over time we expanded to work and partner with companies that wanted to provide tutoring as a benefit to their employees and their families.
- We have partnered with some non-profits and by working with them, we’re able to ensure that students could use this extra resource.
[07:22] – What have been some of your challenges and some of your learnings as you have scaled up?
- One of them was just changing the format of how we tutor to embrace the shift to online learning that happened through COVID.
- We were originally tutoring in-person, and we made a shift to online learning as COVID came.
- What we found was that by shifting to an online model, we can have tutors in every single zip code and every single time zone.
- We can really support students in a way that’s safe, and convenient for them.
- Shifting from an individual-focused approach to working with companies posed a challenge. Our goal was to ensure continuous support for students while also streamlining processes for the companies we partnered with.
- The students living in homeless shelters are already going through so many challenges, and we wanted to make sure that they were respected and heard.
- One of the non-profits we work with had put us through trauma-informed care training. We make sure we take time to let the students select the tutors that they want.
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- Sona is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of My Private Professor.
- She serves on several non-profit boards.
- She has been recognized and felicitated several times.
