About Us
The story of Adriana Academics begins back in 1999 when Adriana started tutoring her first students as a junior in high school while attending classes at Antelope Valley Community College in Lancaster, CA. Even though she was a high school student, she assisted college students with biology and various math topics.
Shortly thereafter she was hired as a staff tutor at the college, where she tutored biology, math (algebra, trigonometry, and geometry), and GED preparation. In 2001, after graduating with honors from Paraclete High School, she moved on to the prestigious biomedical program at the University of California, Riverside.
As an undergraduate, Adriana continued her work as a tutor. She taught a broad range of math and science topics to high school and undergraduate students. At the time, Adriana was pursuing her degree in Biological Sciences because she had a true passion for understanding the nature of biological systems including brain-personality relationships and how the environment affects outcome.
After graduating from university, Adriana pursued her graduate degree in Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While in LA, Adriana taught at an independent school where she focused on helping behaviourally challenged students who struggled in the classic classroom setting. Under Adriana’s guidance, her students went from failing high school courses to achieving graduating marks and entering college. In fact, some of her students have gone on to become lawyers, business owners, and artists.
Fast forward to 2010, Adriana met her future husband and tutoring teammate Jordan while attending a graduate gathering at the University of California, Irvine. Adriana and Jordan connected with their mutual passion for helping others succeed. Jordan was already an experienced tutor in his own right. Due to their passion for tutoring and their success with students Jordan and Adriana launched Adriana Academics in 2014.
Since 1999, Adriana Academics has served Southern Californian families by providing subject tutoring, exam preparation, and college application advising.
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We help students and their families navigate through K-12 and college-level coursework, standardized exams, the college application process, and college life. We get to know our clients so that we can help students develop their own effective study habits, test-taking skills, and overall academic confidence.
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We measure our success by our students’ success.
Adriana, Founder of Adriana Academics
Adriana Vincent, M.P.H.
Adriana has tutored math, science, and provided academic counseling for over 16 years. She works primarily with high school students taking algebra, algebra 2, precalculus, biology, and writing. She has extensive experience working with students challenged by ADHD/ADD, and behavioral challenges. Seeing her students succeed led her to start Adriana Academics.
Jordan Vincent, PH.D.
Jordan has over 10 years of tutoring, college teaching and mentoring experience. He works primarily with high school and college students taking chemistry, physics, and calculus courses. Jordan’s students have moved on to prestigious undergraduate programs at the Universities of California at San Diego, Berkeley, and Irvine and the theoretical chemistry Ph.D. program at Virgina Tech.
Dr. Adam Van Wart
PH.D.
Adam has over 8 years of experience teaching at the college-level. He taught general chemistry at the California State Polytechinic University in Pomona and organic chemistry and general chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Dr. Rose Phillips
PH.D.
Rose has ten years of teaching experience at the university level and over fifteen years of tutoring experience. Her teaching experience spans five different institutions including the University of California, Irvine; California State University, Long Beach; Chapman University in California as well as the University of the Incarnate Word and Saint Mary’s University in Texas.
Andy Truong
Andy has six years of experience tutoring and mentoring his fellow peers in math and science at both the high school and college level. Andy obtained his first exposure to tutoring in high school when he was asked to help other students in pre-calculus and algebra 2. As a senior member of the MESA program on campus, he was entrusted to prepare a new batch of students for their annual competitions. At the University of California, Andy tutored general chemistry and biology courses in the learning and academic resource center.
Andy earned his B.A. in Public Health Policy from the University of California, Irvine in 2016. He plans to graduate from the radiology technician program at Orange Coast College in 2021.