Our Team
Our small but dynamic team is excited to meet you!
Rabani Garg
Rabani Garg earned her Ph.D. and master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. For more than two decades, she has worked as an educator and researcher focusing on how people read and write, and on how schools and systems can better support them. Her research and practice are committed to building collaborative, collective, intergenerational spaces with the communities she partners with.
In 2019, after a public high school student asked her for help with his application, she began to notice how little support many public school students receive. While social media is flooded with tips, she realized that a supportive personal community was missing and was often what students needed as they navigated this process. Over the last six years, she has assisted high school students at different phases of the process, sometimes even at the last minute, and, together with youth, has built a community in which students she supported now help others who reach out.
TAP grew out of this need: a supportive peer-to-peer network and clear, accessible information, developed alongside youth who have just been through the process and those currently navigating it. TAP is now a youth-led, intergenerational community that is slowly building a movement that works toward equitable, supportive, and community-centered college access.
Twyla Nunes-Ueno
Twyla Nunes-Ueno is a recent graduate of Science Leadership Academy in Center City Philadelphia and an incoming electrical engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
At TAP Twyla leads technical operations, and forms part of the counseling team. She is passionate about expanding access to resources, whether that means developing a public bathroom finder for Philadelphia or guiding local students through the college application process.
When she’s not working, you can find her playing Ultimate Frisbee, making crosswords, or teaching her dog new tricks.
Andrew Row
Andrew is currently in his third year studying History and English at Trinity College Dublin, where he also helps out with the College Historical Society, the oldest student society in the world.
At TAP Andrew has helped out with writing articles helping high school students apply to college. Since he is studying abroad, he offered a unique perspective on the college application process.
When not at work, he can be found out in the Irish rain or researching for his next history essay.