Eric Arzubi, Founder and CEO
 Eric has a passion for helping kids of all abilities and ages succeed in school. He founded Raging Knowledge in December 2000 with the hope of creating the first truly professional tutoring service.
Beginning in May 2007, Eric will be available on a limited basis to provide learning support and educational care coordination for particularly challenging cases. Please call Ela Mata at x17 for an appointment.
Eric will be graduating in May 2008 from the Yale University School of Medicine, where he was a three-year member of the Education Policy and Curriculum Committee. Throughout his time at Yale, he has been a Donald J. Cohen Child Psychiatry Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center and he was the Fellowship’s student leader in 2004/2005.
Additionally, he was awarded the David E. Rogers Fellowship by the New York Academy of Medicine and the CMHS Jeanne Spurlock Minority Medical Student Clinical Fellowship from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Eric currently holds a three-year appointment as a member of AACAP's Schools Committee.
Eric plans to pursue a clinical career at the intersection of child psychiatry and K-12 education.
After graduating from Georgetown University with honors in 1991 with a degree in Science, Technology, and International Affairs, he worked as the Argentina correspondent for Bloomberg Business News and as a Latin American bond trader for Morgan Stanley. Eric is a native Spanish speaker, speaks German fluently, studied French for 9 years and Japanese for 3 years. During his pre-medical studies from 1999 to 2002 at Columbia University, Eric worked as a teaching assistant in the chemistry department.
Eric started competing in long-distance outrigger canoe races in 2001. In high school, he was a tennis All-American and he rowed for Georgetown University's crew in 1989 and 1990.
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Priya Bhatt, Ed.M., Literacy and Learning Specialist
 Priya graduated in 2006 from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a master’s degree in Language and Literacy with an emphasis on early literacy development, assessments, and interventions. Her other master’s degree is in Human Development and Family Studies from the M. S. University, India where she specialized in the various aspects of growth and development during the entire human life span. She is also a trained early childhood educator with a Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education. She believes that knowledge from such a varied educational background helps her immensely while working with children.
Priya started her professional career with a non-profit organization in Mumbai (Bombay), India. This experience brought her closer to a range of the difficult issues faced by all children. For a year, she helped coordinate a program that was designed for underprivileged children who had never been to school before. Since then, issues in childhood education have been her professional focus. Later she worked with an educational company where she single-handedly designed the Learning Standards for the English Language Arts curriculum used in the Indian schools. Even as a student in India and the US, she interned at organizations or schools that got her closer to understanding how children learn and therefore, how curriculum, assessments, and instruction should be designed. Priya also has an intense passion for research. She believes that research is a means to achieve better knowledge and improve practice. She has always been involved in all research studies conducted at her place of work.
Priya believes that one must always follow what she/he desires. Interestingly, she started with a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics only to realize that her interests lie elsewhere. She relentlessly pursued these goals and is very pleased with where she is today. She loves working with children and believes in her role as their advocate.
Priya is very fond of reading autobiographies (that’s where she gets her inspiration from) and is crazy about watching movies in her spare time. She vows to learn to play the guitar some day. She was born in India and came to the US in September 2005 for her studies at Harvard. She loves Connecticut and lives here with her husband, Nandit.
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Ken-Shing Law, M.S., Math and Science Specialist
 Ken attended California State University, Long Beach, where he was a President's Scholar and where he also won numerous academic scholarships. He graduated cum laude from Long Beach with a B.S. in Chemistry. His scholastic achievement continued at Yale University, where he earned his Master of Science in Chemistry.
While Ken is extensively trained as a laboratory scientist and has performed original research in engineering, chemistry, and biochemistry since his time in Long Beach, with work that has since been published in academic journals, his experiences have led him to discover that teaching is his passion. His desire for teaching and helping others started when he was a high school student in California, where he spent many afternoons tutoring others on campus. He continued to teach while at Long Beach and at Yale, where he led numerous review, discussion, and laboratory sections. His services to the community of New Haven include being a Children's Church teacher at his church.
Although he has kept a fairly busy schedule most of his adult life, he nevertheless managed to find time to rummage through the mountains of Southern California, the Eastern Sierras, and Alaska, all in the name of adventure and the endless pursuit of the next sunrise from the summit of mountains.
Ken is currently settled in New Haven with his beautiful wife. Together they are active in their church body and look forward to continual service in the community. With little mountains to climb in Connecticut, Ken is pursuing his other hobbies, which include photography, cycling, and cooking.
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Carrie Malcolm, B.S., Literacy and Learning Specialist
 Carrie completed her Bachelors of Science in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut in May 2004, then went on to pursue her Master’s Degree in Secondary English Education at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. This December, she will receive her degree and Pennsylvania certification, and she is currently working on gaining her Connecticut certification.
Before joining the Raging Knowledge team, Carrie was blessed with the chance to teach through the acclaimed program Teach For America. As a teacher in the Kensington neighborhood of north Philadelphia, she relentlessly worked to provide her 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students with the highest quality of instruction possible. Through the creation and implementation of an intensive and differentiated curriculum, Carrie was able to help her students move from basic to proficient on the city’s reading comprehension exams. Her experience at Kensington High School solidified her passion for helping students with special needs exceed even the highest of expectations.
Before becoming a teacher, Carrie had many opportunities throughout her undergraduate career to work with children. For three years, she organized and trained volunteers for a daily tutoring program for the Willimantic Housing Authority. In the summers, Carrie worked at a counselor for nine and ten-year-olds at Hartford’s Camp Courant.
Carrie has many hobbies aside from reading and writing and teaching. She has recently bought a violin, and is determined to practice no matter how bad she sounds. She also loves to sing as loud as she can, participate in Devil Dog eating competitions, and play with her princess-like cat “Taj” and brand-new puppy “Wyatt.”
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Tammy Moscrip, Ph.D., Learning and Cognition Specialist Tammy earned a PhD in experimental psychology from Columbia University in 2005. As a recipient of the National Institute of Health’s pre-doctoral science training fellowship, Tammy pursued neuroscience-based dissertation research focusing on cognitive and behavioral work in a nonhuman primate model. She feels that this research experience has greatly enhanced her ability to understand the human brain and its resulting potential to acquire, remember, and apply new knowledge. After years of studying cognition, behavior, and the brain, she sought the opportunity to apply her extensive knowledge to help students succeed in their academic and personal lives. In addition to the PhD, Tammy earned her Masters of Philosophy in 2004, and a Masters of Arts in 2001 from Columbia University's Psychology Department. Currently, she is seeking clinical certification by taking classes towards a Masters in Social Work.
While she was busy studying, traveling to research conferences, and publishing research articles, Tammy also found time to hone her teaching skills at Columbia University, working as a teaching assistant in the following courses: Behavioral Neuroscience, Mind, Brain and Behavior, Experimental Psychology: Learning and Motivation, and Science of Psychology. Tammy also worked as a psychology tutor in Columbia University's Psychology Department, helping undergraduates and graduate students tackle psychology, neuroscience, and statistics courses.
Tammy completed her undergraduate work in 1997 at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She graduated with magna cum laude honors in her psychology and biology majors. She was already pursuing her passion for teaching at Bates, working as a tutor for the College's psychology and biology departments, as a technical writing assistant for science undergrads, and as a summer biology teaching assistant for gifted minority high school students.
Tammy has a great passion for animals of all kinds and in all different environments: she is an active scuba diver, she served as a volunteer assistant to the veterinary technician at the Central Park Zoo in NYC, and she conducted tropical field biological research in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands in 1995.
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Azadeh Shoraki, B.S., Math and Science Specialist
 Azadeh graduated Cum Laude from the College of the Holy Cross in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with a concentration in Pre-medical studies. Her academic record is truly impressive- making Dean’s List for four years in a row. Her dedication to academic success earned her an invitation to join both the prestigious National Society of Collegiate Scholars and also the Holy Cross chapter of Mathematical Honors Society.
Throughout her collegiate career, Azadeh has had many interests in addition to her coursework. With a passion for helping people, she made time to tutor her peers in a variety of subjects, including calculus. Furthermore, Azadeh reached out to school aged children living in the underserved neighborhoods of Worcester, Massachusetts by helping to design and implement a tutoring program with a focus on math.
Azadeh’s eagerness to help her community extends beyond academics. Inspired by her mother and stepfather, who are both physicians of internal medicine, Azadeh plans on pursuing her dream of a medical profession so that she can positively influence the lives of those around her.
Before coming to Raging Knowledge, Azadeh volunteered as a research assistant at Bridgeport Hospital extracting data for a study on congestive heart failure. She also worked at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA where she was responsible for analyzing data and designing databases for a research project on metabolic syndrome and one on the T-wave alternans test
Azadeh views her role as a Math Specialist at Raging Knowledge through the same lens as her future career in medicine – her main objective is to help anyone who needs her expertise.
Azadeh means freedom in Farsi and she oozes with the energy her name brings. “Az” (read “Oz”) is how she introduces herself. She was born in Iran and moved here to the US when she was two. She believes that being raised in a traditional Iranian home within the culture of the United States has made her a well-rounded individual.
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