Cole W.

In addition to his tutoring background, Cole brings a strong record of academic achievement and policy experience. At the University of Chicago, he was a founding member of the Indigenous Student Association, and he was selected as 1 of 12 students nationwide for the Udall Foundation's Native American Congressional Internship Program. Since graduating, Cole has worked at every level of American government. In the Office of the Mayor of Chicago, he wrote speeches the mayor delivered at high-profile public events, and on Capitol Hill he drafted House bill memos for Congresswoman Sharice Davids and researched and presented a paper on the legal status of reproductive rights on tribal lands. In the New Mexico House of Representatives, he served as a Committee Policy Analyst for the Government, Elections, and Indian Affairs Committee, where he analyzed bills and amendments and wrote the reports legislators relied on to decide how to vote. He has also held internship roles with Think New Mexico, the state's non-partisan think tank, and the United States Sustainable Investment Forum. He is also the Co-Founder of a tech company. 

For Cole, tutoring is about access. He was raised by a law professor and spent his childhood on law school campuses, wandering through lecture halls and asking law students to explain what they were working on—an insider's view of legal education that most applicants never get, and one he wants to share with students who didn't grow up with a lawyer at the dinner table. That same belief led him to found Nanola Recording, a non-profit that gives Native American kids in Santa Fe access to a professional recording studio. He takes real pride in watching a student's reasoning click into place, and in showing applicants that this test is far more learnable than it looks.

Cole believes the LSAT is really a reading test and that Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension reward the same habits a good English class does—slowing down, separating what an author actually claims from what they want you to assume, and spotting the gap between the two. He has found that most students don't need more tricks. Cole believes they need to see why the right answer is right and, more importantly, why the wrong ones are so tempting. His sessions feel more like conversations than drills, and he would rather have a student talk through their reasoning out loud than have them grind through another timed section without understanding what went wrong. Cole adapts to each student and helps them build instincts they can trust on test day, such as reading closely, finding the assumption an argument rests on, and spotting exactly where it falls apart.

Outside of tutoring, Cole judges and helps organize the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, which fits naturally with his love of puzzles. He also teaches philosophy, reads in nearly every spare moment, and is a competitive Magic: The Gathering player.