Natasha Rubin

Natasha grew up in Paris in a bilingual household, speaking French and English from the start — not as a student of the language, but as a native speaker who lived it. She sat for the French Baccalaureate with honors, a rigorous credential that reflects both her mastery of the language and her deep grounding in the French educational tradition. That lived fluency — cultural, idiomatic, and instinctive — is what she brings into every session.

Natasha holds a BA in Psychology from Georgetown University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her background in psychology is more than a line on a page — it informs everything about how she teaches. She is attuned to how individual students process information, where confidence breaks down, and what it actually takes to make a language stick rather than simply memorized.

She began tutoring French in college and has worked with students across every stage — middle schoolers, high schoolers preparing for the SAT II French Subject Test, and adults pursuing conversational fluency for travel, work, or personal enrichment. Natasha has developed curriculum including case studies, course materials, and frameworks for classes at Columbia Business School and Parsons School of Design. That experience gave her a deep appreciation for how great curriculum is built: with the learner at the center, and rigor balanced against accessibility.

Natasha went on to spend nearly a decade as a senior executive at a venture-backed company, ultimately rising to President and COO — a chapter that sharpened her ability to communicate clearly, read people well, and make complex things feel approachable. She is now returning to tutoring, bringing that full range of experience to every student she works with.

Her strength is making French feel natural and alive rather than like a set of rules to memorize. She meets each student exactly where they are and builds from there.