Dr. Karin Gosselink (she/her) [back row, second from left]
Academic Strategies Program Director

karin.gosselink@yale.edu

Karin Gosselink is the founding Director of Academic Strategies and serves as the Director of Academic Strategies and Academic Opportunity at Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. Karin grew up in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and was awarded a scholarship to Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. There she majored in English and started her professional academic career as a tutor in their writing center. After coordinating the writing center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she enrolled in a Ph.D. program in literatures in English at Rutgers University, where she wrote a dissertation on community creation in the wake of civil violence in contemporary global anglophone novels. In 2006, she started as a full-time writing lecturer in Yale’s English department, and in 2010 became the Assistant Director of the Yale College Writing Center. In 2016, Karin started the Academic Strategies program to help students develop strong practices and approaches to their academic work at Yale. Karin also helped to create the Community Initiative for first-generation and lower-income students at Yale in 2018. In her online work this year, Karin will be frequently Zoom bombed by her three children, William, Oscar, and Nora, and her two new kittens, Simon and Eloise.

Dr. Lynda Paul (she/they)
Academic Strategies Program Associate Director

lynda.paul@yale.edu

Lynda Paul is the Associate Director of Academic Strategies and Undergraduate Writing and Tutoring at Yale. She grew up in southern California, just north of Los Angeles, but began her educational journey across the country from there, as a bassoonist at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Realizing fairly quickly after arriving in upstate NY that a career in an orchestra was not right for her, Lynda explored multiple other instruments, majors, and degrees throughout the rest of her undergraduate studies, ending up with a self-designed B.M./B.A. double-degree and then spending the next several years studying, researching, performing, and teaching across different fields in the arts and humanities, with a special focus on writing—first at the University of Chicago and then at Yale, where she earned her Ph.D. and M.F.A. degrees, and joined the faculty. At Yale, she has taught interdisciplinary classes listed in nine different departments (most frequently in English, Theater Studies, and Music), served as a college advisor and senior thesis advisor to numerous students, and worked as one of the Residential College Writing Tutors. Her passion is for student mentorship and teaching across the liberal arts, and her goal is to help all students at Yale figure out how to learn, grow, and thrive in the way that works best for them in this academic environment. She loves to talk with students, so please don’t hesitate to reach out anytime!

Audrey Yeung (she/her)
Academic Strategies Program Woodbridge Fellow

audrey.yeung@yale.edu

Audrey, born and raised in South Jersey, is the Woodbridge Fellow for Academic Strategies, and graduated from Yale Class of 2022 majoring in Neuroscience. She was a longtime Academic Strategies FGLI Peer Mentor and is thrilled to continue working with ASP as she is applying to medical schools. Outside of academics, she was in STARS I, the Yale QuestBridge Chapter, the Davenport Pops Orchestra, and Yale Movement. She also enjoys volunteering at the Yale New Haven Hospital and HAVEN Free Clinic. In her free time she enjoys watching YouTube, baking, dancing to K-Pop, and playing video games.

Caitlin Willis (she/her)
Academic Strategies New Haven Promise Fellow

caitlin.willis@yale.edu

Caitlin was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. She studied History, English, and Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University. She graduated in December of 2021, and is now back as a graduate student studying Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Equity and Diversity. She’s currently the New Haven Promise Fellow in the Poorvu Center. She’s passionate about helping unrepresented students feel welcome and at home in the Yale community. Her ultimate career goal is to make education as accessible as possible. When she isn’t working towards her goal, she can be found reading, working on her novels, or hiking all over Connecticut.  

Mamta Agarwal (she/her)
Academic Strategies Program Coordinator

mamta.agarwal@yale.edu

Mamta is the Program Coordinator for the Writing program, Academic Strategies program, STEM Education and Evaluation team, and the Accessibility team at the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. Mamta earned a Master’s in Nonprofit Management at New School University in New York and a Master’s in Social Work at Nirmala Niketan Institute in Mumbai. She has worked extensively in the field of child care and protection, earlier through her work as a Program Manager for a national phone helpline and later through her efforts of assessing state and federal programs for children. Some of her skills include fundraising, event management, training and recruiting. She has always been actively involved in volunteer work and some of her highlights include: initiating a nonprofit for the mentally challenged children and securing funds for it, providing relief, reconstruction & rehabilitation to cyclone-hit as well as earthquake prone areas in India, providing counseling to victims of communal riots, and in recent years, starting a non-formal group called “Pathshala”, that educates kids about Indian culture and values and will be celebrating their 10^th year, in 2020. In her spare time, she loves to travel, read and socialize with friends and family.