Team

John Lim, Co-Founder & Consulting Director

John has had a genuine passion for essay writing since he was in college, helping his peers successfully fulfill their various academic essay needs. The root of his love for words lies in the beauty of human cognitive faculties, making it possible for us to transform thoughts into a beautiful piece of writing. By relying on his strong academic background in philosophy, psychology and cognitive science, John has striven to better understand how we humans acquire a language, express our thoughts using words and produce written sentences in a coherent, structured and organized manner. 

Prior to co-founding J&B Essay Consulting, LLC (“J&B”) in 2012, John worked as an essay instructor and education consultant at colleges, schools and government agencies in the United States, Germany and South Korea, primarily focusing on helping international students with their various essay needs. He aims to create a world in which every individual is capable of producing his or her beautiful, unique written works without relying on others’ assistance.

B.A. Philosophy, University of Virginia
M.S. Cognitive Science, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Certificate, German Language, Universität Heidelberg

Bee Kim, Co-Founder & Operations Director

Bee generally loves to organize and systemize things in order. She strongly believes that with a well-organized, business-like mindset, most of individuals’ struggles can be converted to opportunities. When Bee was pursuing a Master’s degree in the U.K., she witnessed many of her friends struggling with writing academic essays, owing to, for the most part, poor time management skills. She ultimately realized that anyone could write satisfactory essays with the right guidance and highly efficient system.   

Bee provides comprehensive counseling services in Korean to the parents for Grades 7-12 to effectively address inquiries and concerns about consulting process, essay programs and others.

Prior to co-founding J&B in 2012, Bee worked as a business consultant at private companies and government agencies in South Korea and the U.S., mainly leveraging startups by providing appropriate guidance considering each entity’s own uniqueness and strengths. Her goal at J&B is to create an essay consulting process that truly can help many students around the world with essay writing.

M.Sc. International Development, University of Birmingham

Phillip, Senior Consultant 

Phillip graduated from Yale with an Honors Bachelor’s Degree in English and from the University of Chicago with a master’s and Doctorate in English Literature. He is a retired emeritus professor who has taught American literature for over thirty years at Colgate University. He has written books about the African American literary tradition, and his youth in Cleveland, Ohio during the nineteen fifties and sixties. His scholarly articles study early African Atlantic writing of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Most recently, his journalism has concerned twentieth-century African American literature and its social world.

B.A. Cum Laude with Honors in English, Yale University

M.A. English, University of Chicago
Ph.D. English, University of Chicago

- Best Books by and About Blacks (Detroit: Gale Publishing Group, 2000)
- Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters (New York: Peter Lang, 2006)
- Re-centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008)
- An Integrated Boyhood: Coming of Age in White Cleveland (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012) 

Camille, Senior Consultant

Camille attended New York University for liberal studies, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to study art, and Brooklyn College, where she graduated with honors from the English Department. An academic enthusiast, Camille’s work within editing and essay writing express her desire to contribute to the existing dialogues that stretch across multiple fields and disciplines. She enjoys breaking down the writing process to illustrate the importance of logic and structure and is passionate about literature, art, philosophy, ancient civilizations, music history, and education. She currently resides in the Bronx, New York, and is an award-winning essayist.

- RANDOLPH GOODMAN SHAKESPEARE ESSAY AWARD
- MELLON TRANSFER STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM GRANT
- SPECIAL MERIT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEPARTMENT
- BOSTON UNIVERSITY ACADEMY. EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH AWARD
- PUBLICATIONS: “Dream, Baby Dream.” The Junction Spring 2017: p. 14. Print.

Tae, Operations Manager

Through her films and writing, Tae explores different mythologies and imaginaries that have emerged with globalization. Her writing has been published in UC Berkeley’s Comparative Literature Journal and her short films have been screened at different festivals including the Sundance Film Festival (USA), Black Canvas (Mexico) and BOGOSHORTS (Colombia).

B.A. Comparative Literature, Duke University
M.F.A. Cinematográficas, Escuela Nacional de Artes 

Jeff, Consultant

Trained as a historian of science, Jeff has worked as a teaching assistant and teacher for the better part of a decade. As a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at the intersection of world history, international development, the history of science, medicine, and technology. As an oral historian and a science writer, he has worked to bring inquiries, methods, and styles from the humanities to investigate leading-edge scientific inquiry. His background and training are as a teacher of the history of science, medicine, and engineering. As a teaching assistant, He saw writing from students from all parts of the academy, and He took pride in helping them to communicate themselves in a dynamic, engaging, and clear style—all while helping them conform to the expectations of academic writing in the Chicago (or, when appropriate, APA or AMA) style. He has a deep understanding of the concerns both students and teachers have about their writing, and enjoy the collaborative process of stewarding initial ideas into work that reflects their insight and research. He has worked with students to this end in a variety of formats, from giving large group lectures on research practices to working through writing in small, collaborative groups to individualized instruction and feedback, in person and online.

B.A. History, Swarthmore College
M.A. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

- Parsons Fund Award, Library of Congress American Folklife Center 
- Penn Museum Field Research Grant
- Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities Fellow
- Resource Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council

Avi, Consultant

Avi has worked as a teaching assistant, research assistant, tutor, lecturer, and adjunct professor. During law school, she was an associate editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law School Journal of Business Law and a teaching fellow for the Marshall Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. After clerking at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, she completed graduate coursework on justice, law, and criminology at American University and attended the International Human Rights Law Summer School at Oxford University, all before returning to her first love: literature. Though her current work is focused on creative essay writing, her research interests still include philosophy of law, international law, human rights, global ethics, justice and the rule of law, and theories of punishment.

B.A. Philosophy, English, Colgate University
J.D. University of Pennsylvania

"unsuitable terrain," Swimming with Elephants Publications, March 2019
“big idea,” The Esthetic Apostle, March 2018
"Fear of Fear," midnight & indigo, January 2019
“Ancient Family,” The Emerson Review, April 2018
“Next Year, I’ll Change,” Capulet Mag, December 2017
“Regular Appointment,” MODUS @ Moore College, May 2017 

Christina, Consultant

Christina's academic journey has equipped her with analytical and research skills and a comprehensive understanding of, for instance, economic and political landscapes. Beyond academia, she has participated in tutoring and educating peers and younger students, dedicated to fostering a supportive learning community. These teaching experiences helped her develop communication skills, encouraging a collaborative approach to explore complex and abstract ideas.

B.S. Foreign Affairs and Economics, University of Virginia 

Nathan, Consultant

Nathan's academic enthusiasm and passion for linguistic expression was ignited in his philosophy studies as an undergraduate. After graduating with a B.A. in philosophy, he took his love for academic rigor with him to Italy, where he earned a Master's of Divinity at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and afterwards spent a year studying ancient Greek and Latin at the Patristic Augustinian Institute in Vatican City. There, he became particularly interested in the linguistic relationship between the natural and supernatural in theology and poetry. His theological studies led him to join the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order dating back to the renaissance and dedicated to intellectual research and social justice. His years with the Jesuits inspired him to once again explore his philosophical roots and he enrolled at Columbia University in New York City as a graduate student in the classics department, with the intention of studying ancient Greek philosophical texts, particularly Plato's Dialogues. After writing a thesis on the relationship between language and metaphysics in the Greek of Plato's Republic, he graduated Columbia with a Master's of Arts in classics.

B.A. Philosophy, St. Mary's University of Winona, Minnesota
M. Div. Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University
M.A. Classics, Columbia University 

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