Connie served as an Assistant Director of Admissions at Brown handling all facets of the admission process — from reading applications and making admission decisions to serving as the liaison to the Medical School and Brown’s eight-year PLME, the Program in Liberal Medical Education. Connie is dedicated to building relationships with students and families, helping students find their academic passions, and assisting students in creating the best possible essays and applications to help them stand out in the admission process. Her students have been accepted to Brown, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and other top universities.

Changxiao studied electrical engineering at Princeton and is a co-founder of Empowerly. Changxiao has previously worked on building trading systems on Wall Street, machine learning at Facebook, and researched NLP techniques for disinformation detection.

Anna Maltby Patil is an award-winning journalist and editor who currently works as a freelance editorial director and consultant, fitness programming and performance coach, and personal trainer and Pilates teacher. Until April 2021, she was the executive editor of Elemental, Medium’s health and wellness publication. She was previously the deputy editor at Real Simple magazine and a deputy editor at Refinery29, and also held staff positions at Men’s Health, Marie Claire, SELF, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health and Condé Nast Traveler. Her writing has appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and O. She received her BSJ and MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Anna is also an American Council on Exercise–certified personal trainer and functional training specialist, a certified prenatal and postnatal exercise specialist, and a certified mat Pilates teacher.