About Ginny Light
A Certified English teacher, who spent fifteen years teaching high school and college-level English, Ginny Light specializes in college-essay editing and tutoring. Since 2008, she has helped over 1,500 students by polishing their essays—cleaning up grammar, usage, mechanics, and tone—while retaining their unique voices, facilitating their acceptance into America’s top-tier universities.
BACKGROUND
Ginny Light has earned two Masters Degrees—a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in English—both from Fordham University, as well as a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Secondary English Education from Pace University. In addition to working as an upper school English teacher at private schools in Connecticut, she has served as a Teaching Associate of Composition/Rhetoric and a tutor at Fordham University's Writing Center, an adjunct professor of English at Westchester Community College, and a UConn Early College Experience/First-Year Writing Instructor. Ginny tutors students in writing skills, critical reading, and grammar for the SAT and ACT, AP Literature, and the New York State English Regents. She also assists students with organizational skills and curriculum enrichment. Currently, Ginny helps students with college application essays.
AWARDS
Ginny has written numerous papers for presentation at national literature symposiums, including the Antebellum American Women Writers and the City Conference, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature (CNYCLL), Midwestern Conference on Film, Language and Literature (MCFLL) and Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS). A member of The Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Ginny has also won the Pace University President's Graduate Merit Scholarship, as well as a Dissertation Research Grant, a Fordham Presidential Scholarship, a Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in-Aid, and Fordham University Teaching Awards.