Vinay Bhawnani
Founder
Math & STEM Instructor

A lifelong mathematician with strong communications skills, Vinay Bhawnani has tutored since 2007 and has worked with more than 5,000 students in middle school, high school, college and beyond. His all-inclusive expertise ranges from algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to precalculus, calculus, and SAT prep. Vinay presents math in an innovative and engaging fashion that most students simply are not exposed to in a traditional classroom setting. Rather than distributing handouts or lecturing from a textbook, he strives to make his lessons both interesting and applicable to the real world. Indeed, for many of his students, math becomes “fun” for the first time.

A 1999 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Vinay majored in bioengineering and minored in chemistry and mathematics. He also took classes at the prestigious Wharton School of Business. In high school, he achieved a perfect score on the math sections of the PSAT and SAT, as well as the Math Level II Subject Test.

His career has included technical consulting work in New York City and an eight-year position with AOL where he managed billing systems. Locally, he worked as the Technical Director for a startup company and until early 2015, was Director of Product Management and the Research and Development head for a local software development company.  Since then, Vinay has dedicated his time at Loudoun Test Prep to helping students and families succeed.  In his “spare” time, he does MORE math and is a huge fan of exotic cars!

Cali Moorman
Director of Operations & Communications

Cali Moorman has been our director of communications and operations since 2017 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice at Pensacola Christian College.  She creates and maintains all channels of communication between parents, students, tutors, administrative staff, and professional affiliates. She leads the teams responsible for marketing, outreach, and recruitment. Personally invested in the success of each student, each team member, and our purpose as a whole, Cali has a hand in every aspect of Loudoun Test Prep.

Outside of managing our behind-the-scenes operations, Cali enjoys entertaining, fashion, crime show drama, and caring for her fur baby, Mushu the cat.

Julie Farrell
Senior Strategic Advisor

Julie has worked with Loudoun Test Prep over the last four years in various strategic capacities. Beyond professional insight, she contributes personal insight from her two sons’ college test prep experiences, as well as from her work as a public school board trustee.

She is the founder of PlanHero®, a popular web-app platform for group organizing. Prior to PlanHero®, Julie led product, marketing, and engineering teams in the aerospace and industrial laser industries.

Julie holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She loves travel and has bungee-jumped in New Zealand and Oregon, crawled under Egypt’s pyramids, been lifted in an elephant’s trunk in Thailand, and ridden in the L’Etape du Tour in France.

Catherine Roberts
Math & STEM Instructor

Catherine’s love of math started in middle school when she joined math club and found a group of peers who were passionate about mathematics. Throughout middle and high school, Catherine loved participating in math competitions—including MathCounts, where she won second place—and traveling to many other university contests. She picked up tutoring on the side, working with children ranging from 6 to 17 years old. Catherine is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she double majored in Math and Computer Science. During college, she had multiple mentor roles, including becoming a teaching assistant for the introductory computer science class and being a resident advisor for a freshman dorm. She is new to Loudoun County, but has years of experience teaching math to high school students. When she is not inspiring young minds, Catherine loves to hang out with her niece and nephew, find new coffee shops, and crochet new sweaters or fun animals.

Kate LeFort
Reading and Writing Instructor

Kate has always had a passion for English.  In high school, she competed in extemporaneous essay writing competitions and began college level grammar and composition classes two years early.  In college, Kate pursued a degree in professional writing to further her passion.  During this time, she discovered her love for not only technical writing, but also poetry.  She has been published in a book of local compilations titled “The Fountain”.  Kate began tutoring elementary school students in 2012, eventually tutoring high school students and college students in later years.  She has hosted essay writing sessions for college students throughout her college career that continued through graduation.

Michelle Kim
Math & STEM Instructor

Michelle started her teaching journey in her freshman year of college at William and Mary when she picked up tutoring as a side gig while studying psychology and data science full time. She continued tutoring math online for the next five years, in math subjects ranging form elementary math to precalculus, along with the SAT, ACT, and SSAT. Before joining LTP, Michelle worked as a director of education at Mathnasium and a program director at a nonprofit organization. She hopes to build her career in education and eventually become a curriculum designer for an edtech company. When she’s not solving math problems, Michelle like to read vintage comics, go thrifting, and make her own coffee table books.

Jon Savage
Head of Learning &
Reading and Writing Instructor

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, Jon is a writer and teacher who has worked in education and publishing since 2013. After earning his undergraduate degrees (BA-English & BA-history) from the University of North Texas, Jon was the recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award, a fellowship worth $150,000 for graduate studies in the Arts. With this award, Jon moved to New York City and attended the MFA program for Fiction Writing at NYU. Throughout these experiences, he has worked as a writing tutor, research assistant, editor, copywriter, and middle/high school teacher.  Jon has been working with LTP for the past three years. He also taught full-time at King Abdullah Academy in Herndon for the ’22-’24 school years. He is currently employed by the US government as a policy writer.

When not teaching or writing, Jon enjoys time in the sun, Lydia Davis’s flash fiction, and cold coffees year round. He listens to Beethoven at the same volume he listens to Parliament-Funkadelic and maintains a healthy obsession with the NBA (go Mavs!). 

Sydney Richter
Reading and Writing Instructor

Sydney grew up in South Florida. After beginning her undergraduate career at Florida Atlantic University, she went on to complete her BA in English at Florida State University: via its Literature, Media, and Culture program. She graduated summa cum laude in May 2022 with high honors and with an honors thesis under her belt. Sydney is now working towards her English MA at Georgetown University. Over the years, she has had various mentorship roles: she has been a tutor since high school and throughout her undergraduate career she led creative writing workshops at a local prison. Now, in addition to being an SAT Tutor, she is a Graduate Tutor with Georgetown’s Writing Center. In school, she has a passion for academic and literary research, journalism, and carceral studies. Outside of school, she enjoys anime, video games, comic books, reality television, and novels in verse.

Emma Thomas
Reading and Writing Instructor

Emma grew up in Roanoke, Virginia. Her lifelong love of reading led her to study English and Communications at Hollins University. She graduated summa cum laude from the university in May 2022. After publishing her senior thesis, she was inducted to the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, in recognition of high achievement in literature and writing. During her time at Hollins, she tutored her peers in English and writing, and created several study groups for her classmates. Her interest in tutoring was motivated by the realization that many K-12 schools failed to teach their students the rules of English grammar, which left them unprepared for their college-level English courses. After college, she worked as a reporter and anchor for a radio news station, and began publishing articles in a business magazine. She moved to Northern Virginia to pursue more writing opportunities. When she isn’t writing or tutoring, Emma enjoys reading, playing video games, and spending time with her dog, Peanut.

Gio Basso
Math & STEM Instructor

Gio holds a M.S. in Finance from Boston College and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Alabama. In high school, he was valedictorian of his class of approximately 600. Notably, he received a National Merit Scholarship, scored a 36 on his ACT, captained both the Mathletes and Track & Field team, and earned a 5 on eleven AP exams.

If you catch Gio during his free time, you might find him watching football, reading at the beach, studying situations in Texas Hold ‘em, catching up on results from Diamond League track meets, or hunting down some vegan fast food.

Mary Masi
Reading and Writing Instructor & Dual Enrollment/English 9-12 & College Essay Writing

Mary teaches Dual Enrollment, English 12 Academic, and English 10 Honors classes at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn. She holds a Virginia Postgraduate Professional teaching license with an endorsement in English, and she is an adjunct instructor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. She earned a perfect GPA of 4.0 throughout her entire graduate education while teaching Freshman Composition at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in English.

Before her teaching career, Mary worked in the editorial divisions of John Wiley & Sons and LearningExpress publishing companies in New York City as both an editor and writer. She has written and published four books, including The Culinary Arts Career Starter and How to Pass the U.S. Citizenship Exam.

Mary’s educational philosophy centers around the importance of discovering and nurturing each student’s path to learning success, so each student may then reach his or her full potential. She enjoys getting to know the students she teaches and helping them achieve and surpass their educational goals.

Olivia Bruns
Proctor

A 2023 graduate of Tuscarora High School with top 10% honors, Olivia was born and raised in Loudoun County. She played softball for 12 years and was also a two sport athlete in high school (softball and swimming). Though she loves sports, she decided to pursue different interests in college. Olivia is currently a student at the University of Delaware studying Kinesiology and aspires to obtain her DPT. Olivia has been with Loudoun Test Prep for over a year working as a proctor. When she isn’t at school or working, Olivia likes to spend her free time at the gym, fueling up on any form of caffeine, or spending time with family and friends.

Chloe Duncan
Office Administrator

Chloe is a recent graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Government and International Politics. When she is not at LTP, she enjoys baking bread, doing crosswords, painting, reading, and taking care of her plants!