Brooke Wurst

Brooke Wurst has worked with thousands of students and their families in education and test prep since 1997, including working 14 years full-time as Program Director of the leading private academic & standardized test preparation company in Boston and 26+ years in private tutoring and counseling. Familiar with all learning styles (including IEP and profoundly gifted) and testing formats (including paper-based, computer-based, and adaptive testing), Brooke successfully tutors students in standardized testing (SAT, ACT, SSAT, ISEE, MCAT (verbal), GMAT, GRE, TOEFL, and writing) as well as AP and university-level coursework. Her clients hail from across the globe: US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Caribbean, Canada, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. Tutoring and test prep has been Brooke’s lifelong avocation, a passion she pursued in addition to the professional work she pursued in tandem: founding two technology companies, a strategic impact advisory consultancy, and an international HIV and Life Skills education non-profit. An inventor and patent-holder, Brooke invented new mobile biometric technology that has increased access to health and social services to more than 25 million vulnerable individuals around the world and invented a geolocating SMS delivery platform to ensure accurate information about nearby health services is available to low-resource communities – now serving more than 60 million individuals across sub-Saharan Africa. She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist on topics at the intersection of public health, technology, international development, sport for development, and social justice. Brooke received her B.A. with Honors in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at University of Pennsylvania; M.S. in Journalism, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University; Advanced Graduate work in Literature at Harvard University (ALM, all but thesis); Specialization in Business Strategy, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Certification in Impact Management and Measurement for the SDGs, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; and studied Literature and Fine Arts at Oxford University. Outside of work, Brooke is a musician (and former music critic) who enjoys playing guitar and bass, certified open water diver, certified skydiver, surfer, and recovering comedy writer.