Ike Wilson was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, where he attended a French school for nine years. His father originally comes from Indiana, while Saigon, Vietnam is home to his mother. Ike’s parents hold degrees from Stanford, Harvard, and Georgetown, and both count many writers and professors among their close relatives.
Ike graduated from Yale College in 2011 with a BA in French and with significant additional course work in creative writing. At Yale he worked as a teacher at the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation, where he developed, and taught three courses at a summer enrichment program for gifted middle schoolers. In college he also worked as a DJ at WYBC Yale Radio and served for two years as the captain of the Yale Club Basketball team.
Currently working as Content Producer of Grovo — a New York tech company leading the world in Microlearning® — Ike is involved with producing and writing educational content, with a focus on training/branding/product videos. The strategic talent required for a gig like this is precisely what makes Ike such a talented communicator and mentor in the world of admissions counseling.
