Meet Our Career Coaching Team

Anna Ivey

Born and raised in Germany, Anna Ivey attended Phillips Academy Andover (Massachusetts) for high school, earned her B.A. in History from Columbia University in New York, spent her Junior year at Cambridge University in the U.K., and earned her law degree at the University of Chicago.

In law school, she served as an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review,worked as a research assistant to Larry Lessig with a focus on constitutional and cyberspace law, and took several classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Upon graduating from law school, she joined the Corporate Group at the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella, working with clients such as Disney, AOL Time Warner, Williams-Sonoma, Hewlett-Packard, CSFB, and Mattel in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and public and private financings. She later joined the Entertainment Finance Group at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, also in Los Angeles, where she worked on the financing of major motion pictures starring actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, and Renee Zellweger.

She next returned to the University of Chicago Law School, where at age 27 she was promoted to Dean of Admissions. She decided who got in... and who didn't. She read thousands of applications, visited colleges nationwide, educated tens of thousands of applicants about the admissions process, and conducted hundreds of admissions interviews. As part of a larger community of admissions professionals, she also met regularly with law school, business school, and college admissions officers from top schools.

Anna has been featured as an expert on CNN and Fox News Channel, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Business Journal, Fortune.com, and Smart Money. She speaks at colleges and workplaces around the country and publishes ‘The Ivey Files,’ a blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school.

The author of The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions, she is currently at work on her next book, Gen Y @ Work, as well as a guide to U.S. college admisssions for the Korean market. Anna serves as a board member of AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate School Admissions Consultants (view our principles of good practice here).

Natively biilingual in German and English, her language studies have also included French, Polish, Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Mandarin Chinese.

Rose Aluotto

Rose is often the first point of contact for prospective clients, and she makes sure clients and prospective clients are taken care of. Rose has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University and has worked for the U.S. State Department in Rome as well as the United Nations. She is also a professional pastry chef with years of experience in restaurant management. She speaks native Italian and proficient Spanish, is studying American Sign Language and Japanese, and enjoys training in the martial arts. Rose is contemplating going to business school.

Paul Buser

Originally hailing from the Midwest, Paul attended the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate education. There he studied Finance, Accounting, and Public Policy while tirelessly cheering (in vain) for a Notre Dame football championship. After graduating summa cum laude in 2003, Paul worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago and Thailand, specializing in operations and strategy. He has also directed a non-profit consulting team in Cambodia, Kosovo, and the U.S. through the International Business Council. Paul is a CPA and holds a CFA charter.

Paul is currently pursuing a combined degree at Harvard Business School (MBA) and the Kennedy School of Government (MPA).

Paul works with business school and public policy school applicants.

Marlena Corcoran

Marlena Corcoran studied for two years at the École normale supérieure in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She has held research appointments at Harvard, Princeton, and Brown Universities, and at Wolfson College, Oxford. She has many years' experience teaching and has also worked in the business world. In 2004, she published two novels designed to help non-native speakers improve their English. In 2003, she received an award from Brown for her work with the international community. Marlena speaks fluent German and French in addition to her native English.

Marlena works with college applicants, college students, applicants to masters and Ph.D. programs, and fellowship applicants.

Christine Foster

As a former reporter for Forbes magazine in New York and Silicon Valley, Christine wrote articles on business and education-related issues, including privatization of school lunch programs and a cover story on school vouchers. She has also worked for newspapers in Syracuse, Virginia Beach, Philadelphia, and Wichita, as well for Stanford's alumni magazine, Stanford. One of her feature stories, on homeschoolers admitted to Stanford, continues to make the rounds on the internet seven years after publication.

A native of Manhattan Beach in Southern California, Christine was lured to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent the majority of her time working, first as a reporter, then as managing editor, for The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn's award-winning newspaper. There she covered beats ranging from crime to the admissions office. In her spare time, she earned a bachelor of arts with honors in American History. Today, she lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and three children.

Christine works with college applicants.

Marla Gottschalk

Marla holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University, with a minor area of study in multivariate statistics. She has held varied roles on projects focusing upon job analysis, performance management, training, career coaching and organizational change. She focuses on helping individuals and organizations grow and excel through customized research, assessment, and coaching techniques. Marla has worked with a variety of small and large organizations in the automotive, hotel, mortgage, computer, and airline industries. She has held previous research positions at Sandy Corporation and Michigan Bell Telephone. She was also a management consultant for HR Strategies (now Aon Consulting). She lives with her family near Michigan State University.

Marla provides career assessment and coaching to college students and job changers, works with organizations on recruiting and retaning recent graduates, and collaborates with Anna to conduct empirical research on Generation Y.

Gregory Henning

A native Bostonian, Greg attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols for high school and later graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a degree in Government. He next attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review and won the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Trial Advocacy Award. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and then became an Assistant District Attorney in Boston.

Greg speaks Spanish (enough to get around) and completed the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

Greg works with law school applicants and people considering a legal career.

Jennifer Lee

Jennifer spent eleven years as a cello student at Juilliard before attending Harvard College, where she played varsity lacrosse and double majored in Music and Anthropology. She graduated magna cum laude and next earned her M.Phil. in Musicology and Performance at Oxford (Lincoln College). She currently attends Harvard Business School for her MBA. She spent a year at a music conservatory in Freiburg, Germany, and her solo and ensemble performances have taken her to France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea. Most recently, she has worked at JP Morgan in London as an investment banking summer associate in the Technology, Media, and Telecom Group. Jennifer is conversant in German and Korean.

Jennifer works with people who are considering a business career and/or business school.

David Yi

Born and bred in sunny Southern California, David is a Korean-American who attended Flintridge Prep (Class of 2000). Eager to see more snow, he flew cross country to Middlebury College (Vermont), where he graduated, cum laude, with a degree in Political Science and Chinese. Upon graduation, unsure of where to travel next, David dabbled in various careers as a language analyst for both private and public sectors all over Asia before settling and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the People's Republic of China. While living in Asia he acquired extensive experience teaching and training college and post-college level students in China and in Korea. David then returned to America, where he founded oneAsia, a non-profit organization committed to encouraging unity and volunteerism among Asian nations. He soon had two jobs: running a non-profit by day and teaching the LSAT for TestMasters by night. Currently, he is attending the University of Chicago Law School. David speaks fluent Korean and Mandarin.

David works with law school applicants.

David 은 햇빛이 쨍쨍한 남가주에서 태어난 재미교포입니다. 그는 Flintridge Prep 고교에서 수석으로 졸업한후 겨울눈이 아름다운Vermont 주에있는 Middlebury College 에서 정치학 과 중국어를 전공 하였습니다. 대학을 수석 졸업한후, Language Analyst 로써 미정부에서 근무한후 Peace Corps Volunteer 로 중국에서 봉사하였습니다. 아시아에서 근무하면서 많은 중국인 과 한국인 대학생 과 대학원생 들을 가르친 경험이많습니다. 미국으로 돌아온후 oneAsia 라는 non-profit 단체를 만들어 활동을 하였습니다. 그는 낮에는 non-profit에 근무 하고 저녁에는 TestMasters 에서 LSAT 를 전문적 으로 가르쳤습니다. 지금 은University of Chicago Law School 에재학중입니다.

David 은 영어와 한국어 그리고 중국어 를 완벽하게 구사합니다.