Jay Kapp has been with Stumptown Test Prep for ten years and has more than 5000 hours of test-prep tutoring. He has been tutoring in Portland for 13 years, working with a spectrum of populations, including those at Minds Matter, Project Grow at Port City, and Janus Youth. For the past eight years, Jay has also worked as a freelance editor for firms on Wall Street. In all capacities, he relishes the opportunity to help people express themselves with greater clarity. Though literary minded, Jay loves to teach math and help students understand the myriad ways to approach the relationships between numbers. He always focuses on a student’s strengths and particular style of learning.

Jay believes a student's greatest opportunity for educational growth comes from a sense of self agency. Accordingly, he helps students identify their long-term goals and the skills necessary to achieve those goals.

Jay graduated with high honors from UC Berkeley, where he returned in 2008 to give the English department’s valedictory address. As an undergraduate he also worked full time as a reporter and editor for Berkeley's student-run daily newspaper. He spent his senior year in a prestigious literature program at Trinity College in Dublin.

Prior to teaching, Jay lived and worked on an organic farm outside Portland. Known to neighbors as Farmer Jay, he has a passion for agriculture and the means by which people nourish themselves. He is an avid cyclist and has ridden his bike across swaths of North America, Europe and China. Most recently, he spent two months riding from his house in North Portland to downtown Manhattan (check out his blog at www.thebikingjay.com).