About the Center

Besides group courses, YouthInkwell Writing Studio also offers one-on-one private tutoring to get you through those tough English projects and develop your close reading skills. Private lessons are designed by families and teachers to meet the student's needs.

If you would like more information about private tutoring, please do not hesitate to call 626-449-6884 for a free 30-minute consultation with YouthInkwell founder and director, Jennifer Sarja. If nothing else, we can get you going in the right direction.

About
Jennifer Sarja

Jennifer Sarja has been teaching writing in Southern California for more than nine years. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Jennifer began her formal writing education at Middlebury College, famous for its Breadloaf School of Writing. Jennifer went on to earn a joint undergraduate degree in Writing and Medieval History at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 1996, Jennifer completed her Master's Degree in Writing at NYU and moved from New York to Los Angeles to await her film adaptation of Robert Cormier's The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, which starred Elijah Wood, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Janeane Garafalo.

Through her guidance, Jennifer's students have gone on to receive acceptance letters from some of the top schools in the country: Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Southern California, Boston University (7-year medical program), Duke University, University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University, where one of her students is now TRIPLE-majoring in Economics, Political Science, and International Relations.

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