Jocelyn enjoys helping students harness their authentic voices to tell their most compelling stories. She brings creativity and empathy to her work as an Essay Coach and is honored to play a meaningful role in helping her students craft outstanding essays.

Outside of her work with students at College Prep 360, Jocelyn is a freelance and creative writer with bylines in The New York Times, Slate, Newsweek, WIRED, and several literary magazines. She has won and been short-listed for numerous writing contests, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in English Literature with a focus on Creative Writing and a minor in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. During her years at Penn, she served as a student advisor in the Writing Center and played defense on the women’s ice hockey team.

While growing up in Wisconsin then Delaware, Jocelyn was a nationally-ranked figure skater who performed and competed all over the country with her older brother as her pair partner. In addition to working with hundreds of athletes as a national-level figure skating coach for over 20 years, Jocelyn has coached writing clients through a variety of projects, from essays, memoirs, and articles, to newsletters and speeches. She holds a certificate from Getting to the Root Workshop for Racial Justice and often attends writing conferences in order to continually learn about the craft of writing, both for herself and for her clients. Jocelyn's memoir, Motion Dazzle, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in 2025. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband and son.