Brittany Maschal, Ed.D
Dr. Brittany Maschal has held positions in admissions and student services at the University of Pennsylvania at Penn Law and The Wharton School; Princeton University (undergraduate) and The School of Public and International Affairs; and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She has served on admissions committees with American Councils for International Education and International Research and Exchanges Board, as an invited speaker to numerous community programs in the US and abroad, and as an alumni interviewer and admissions representative for the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Brittany was also an Executive Board member and Membership Director of the Penn GSE Alumni Association.
Brittany received her doctorate in higher education from the George Washington University in 2012. Prior, she attended the University of Pennsylvania for her master’s and the University of Vermont for her bachelor’s degree—a degree she earned in three years. Brittany is a Professional Member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and a member of the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches. As a member of IECA, she has served in various leadership roles, including VP of the Graduate Committee and leader of the Business School Roundtable series.
She’s also the co-author (along with Emma!) of The Complete College Essay Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing the Personal Statement and the Supplemental Essays—naturally, she loves helping students uncover, explore, and then tell their stories throughout the application process.
Emma is a writer, editor, and educator with a lifelong passion for words. She studied at Nightingale-Bamford in New York City and Phillips Academy Andover before earning degrees from Harvard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she completed her Ph.D. in Literature. Her career has taken her from literary scouting in New York City to teaching composition and creative writing at the university level. Along the way, she has created study guides for SparkNotes, edited a literary magazine, contributed to an agricultural news site, and published her poetry and essays in various outlets. Since 2016, she has helped students craft compelling college application essays, and in 2021, she co-authored The Complete College Essay Handbook with Brittany. She is currently a Visiting Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. A dedicated language learner, Emma has at various times considered herself proficient in Russian, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek.
Kris graduated from Harvard University with a BA in economics and completed his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received the top student and post-graduate fellowship funding and where his thesis advisor was Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding. In between those two degrees, he worked in finance in Vietnam, started an education consulting company in China, and taught lawyers in Lithuania. His essays and photography have appeared in various outlets, including The Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine, The Browser and The Millions. He currently splits his time between Vilnius, Berlin, and Philadelphia and is working on a novel. He can get around in German, French, Spanish and Mandarin, and has traveled to over 50 countries. When he’s not reading or writing, he loves cooking from the Fuschia Dunlop cookbook, playing basketball (with more effort than skill), going dancing, catching up on economic news, or watching movies from the Criterion Collection.
Mike holds a dual B.A. in English and Economics summa cum laude from Rutgers University, where he also received Honors for his English Creative Thesis (a collection of short stories) and won numerous writing contests. After finishing undergrad, Mike spent a year teaching English to high school students in France (he still goes back most of each summer). He is currently writing his dissertation for his PhD in English Literature, focusing on contemporary American fiction and film. Mike speaks French and Russian.
Moira earned her BA in English Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Master’s of Public Administration from Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. After college, she joined Teach for America and taught English for 7 years in Nashville, TN, during which time she also received an M.Ed. in Instructional Practice. Currently, Moira lives in Washington, D.C., and works in leadership development for the federal government. After transitioning out of the classroom, she relishes the opportunity to support students throughout the application process and help them translate their unique experiences into narrative form.
Stephanie graduated from Harvard with a BA in English and received her MFA in fiction from NYU. She recently moved back to the U.S. after living in Budapest, Hungary, where she was a 2023-24 Fulbright Scholar studying Hungarian-Jewish literature. Stephanie is currently writing a novel. Her creative nonfiction and book reviews have been published in places like Bookforum, Lit Hub, and the LA Review of Books. Before transitioning into her writing career, Stephanie worked as a marketing manager at a tech startup in Berlin, a management consultant for Fortune 500 media/entertainment companies across the U.S., and a remote strategy director for the literary magazine Nat. Brut.
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