Pair Profiles

Meet Some of Our Mentor/Mentee Pairs

As iMentor grows to serve more mentee-mentor pairs each year, it's important to share the stories of our participants. Below are some examples of the mentoring relationships that iMentor helps facilitate, the way they develop, and the impact they have on both mentees and mentors.

Tamiko and Joelle

When Joelle was a junior at Secondary School for Law, she started talking about her college options with her mentor, Tamiko Kamara.

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Peter and Darius

Peter Karl was about to begin his freshman year at Tulane University in August 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

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Greg and Steven and Kristen and Tara

Less than a year after Greg Mucci started mentoring Steven, now a junior at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School, through iMentor, his wife Kristen signed up to mentor a student at the school as well.

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Melissa and Yamslee

Yamslee, a senior at Bronx Preparatory High School, has been diligently working on the many facets of the college application process, such as studying for the SATs, asking her teachers for recommendation letters, and coming up with a topic for her personal statement.

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Eric and Zachary

Zachary left his home in Jamaica for the first time just a few months before his 16th birthday.

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Emily and Sadiya

As soon as Sadiya heard that her mentor, Emily, listened to Drake and Kanye West, she knew that her mentor would be someone she could really talk to.

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Alex and Ian

Though he was in danger of failing math for a third time, 15-year-old Ian didn’t lack ability—what he needed was confidence.

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Amy and Jie Wen

This spring, when Jie Wen saw her friends getting acceptance letters from the same colleges she applied to, she grew concerned that she hadn’t gotten any responses.

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Joe and Danny

Like many students, Danny felt a bit overwhelmed when he first started 9th grade at the Urban Assembly School for Careers in Sports (UASCS).

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Celine and Chanil

In her junior year of high school, Chanil was faced with two major obstacles to realizing her dream of attending Buffalo State College—low SAT scores and the cost of tuition.

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Andie and Rebecca

Rebecca (mentee) is an artistic and academically-ambitious student who dreams of finding a career that bridges her creative and intellectual sides.

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Melissa and Shantel

Melissa has a long history with iMentor, as she was one of the organization's first mentees. Melissa's mentor was instrumental in shaping her career. She decided to pay this priceless support forward by becoming a mentor to Shantel, a bright, ambitious student at Catherine McAuley High School.

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