Distinguished Speakers

Founder and Director, TRIALS
Founder and President, Advantage Testing Foundation
Founder and President, Advantage Testing Inc.

Legal background

  • Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City
  • Federal Law Clerk to the Hon. Judge Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Editor, Harvard International Law Journal

Teaching experience

  • Tutor for LSAT, GMAT, GRE, MCAT, SAT, ACT
    • Tutored more than three thousand students in standardized tests and academic subjects
  • Instructor, Mathematics Department of Harvard College 
    • Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates awarded by the Dean of Harvard College 
  • Instructor at Up the Ladder Learning Disabilities Center in New York City
  • One of seven educators featured in New York Magazine’s “The Influentials,” a compilation of 200 professionals “whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York”

Public service

  • Co-founder of the Math Prize for Girls, the largest math prize for girls in the world, offered in partnership with MIT
  • Founding trustee and former Vice President of the Board of Trustees of LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America), an organization committed to nurturing the leadership potential of exceptional public school students of underrepresented backgrounds
  • Long-standing trustee of Prep for Prep, advancing the ambitions of talented minority students from New York City public schools
  • Former Director, Jamesburg Correctional Institute for Boys Tutorial Program 
  • Former Board of Directors, Student Volunteers Council (largest community service organization at Princeton) 
  • Volunteer and supporter, the United States Committee for UNICEF 
  • Honorary Pi Eta Kappa Fellow awarded by Medgar Evers College for “advancing the lives of young men of color”
  • Profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s “Donor of the Day” column for “helping to find the next generation of leaders who will bring diversity, new ideas, compassion and a different kind of leadership to institutions”
  • Recipient of South Asian Council for Social Services Award for extraordinary service to the community

Arun Alagappan