Meet the Staff | MLS Educational Consultants

Our Staff

Mary Lou Sullivan

Founder and CEO

Specialties: Mary Lou is highly skilled in the ability to determine a student’s learning style, analyze the assigned task, and match an approach. She has an extensive background in teaching children in elementary, middle, and high school level school placements and is therefore acquainted with an understanding of the sequenced demands of curriculum throughout students’ academic careers. She is highly effective at instructing beginning reading and writing skills. In addition, she instructs and designs instructional and support programs for a wide continuum of learning styles to support academic areas affected by learning or attentional issues throughout all grade levels.

Amy Jones

Education Program Director

Specialties: Amy enjoys helping students with reading, writing and humanities instruction at all levels from preschool through college level courses. She incorporates executive functioning support in each lesson she teaches. Her greatest pleasure is watching a student have an “ah ha” moment and learning to build on the simplest foundation. She loves working with people and helping them learn to overcome obstacles. She believes children are our greatest resource.

Evan Finnell

Program Director, One-on-One Tutoring and College Planning

Specialties: Evan enjoys teaching all levels of science and math to students in middle school, in high school, and at the college level. He strives for students to make real-world connections and applications where they otherwise might get lost in the numbers and jargon. Evan takes a steady, grammar-first approach to Spanish, solidifying the skills that students learn in the classroom while helping students to make connections between new vocab and previously-learned material. Evan incorporates executive function skill-building in his lessons to support student’s development in this critical area.

Jordan Hudson

Program Coordinator, Test Prep

Specialties: Jordan’s specialty is fostering a love for mathematics and the sciences by highlighting the reality of the material as it applies to the students and how we use can use tools like mathematical modeling to understand the complexities of the natural and scientific world around us. In addition, Jordan tries to extend his own innate curiosity for all parts of the natural and physical world around us to his students. It is not unusual for Jordan to hold the complete attention of both students and staff alike as he dynamically and clearly explains complex scientific concepts. He has also studied Classical Latin prose and poetry in high school and college and is well-versed in his knowledge of the Roman culture and language. Jordan also leads the MLS team for standardized test tutoring, and stays up to date on the latest changes to secondary school admissions tests (SSAT, HSPT, ISEE) and college gateway tests (SAT, ACT).

Nadege Labert

Assistant Program Coordinator

Nadege’s Bio coming soon!

Sue Gail Spring

Senior Academic and Executive Functioning Specialist

Specialties: Sue Gail specializes in the Humanities. She teaches deep reading, literary analysis, and the basics of writing successful literary essays with a clear thesis statement, strong claims, and carefully selected quotes that support the thesis. For History classes, Sue Gail guides students in finding and assessing valid research sources and in techniques for using school databases as well as how to organize notes into a cohesive paper with proper citations. She supports students in AP Language, AP Literature, AP World History, and AP Government classes. Sue Gail also works with college students wanting writing support, as well as students preparing college and graduate school admission essays. Thanks to her time attending the University of Madrid as an undergraduate student, she also teaches Spanish grammar. Sue Gail’s overriding goal is to provide support that will help students feel confident and accomplished in their work since nothing motivates like success.