JILL CONSTANTINO is a writer, a college coach, and a flower farmer. She was also a fox researcher in the Channel Islands, a high school science teacher in rural North Carolina, a bike messenger in Seattle, and a bartender and Fulbright Scholar in the Galápagos Islands. Trying out all the possible lives, she is prepared to help students figure out theirs as they apply to college!
Jill received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, then taught writing and anthropology at Harvard University where she was also a dean. In this role, she became intimately familiar with student struggles and aspirations, family dreams and worries, and institutional processes. As a writing teacher, she perfected the magical formulas that turn thoughts into beauty and power.
Jill now lives on a farm in Maryland with her husband where they raise four kids, a dog, and some chickens. When she’s not chasing raccoons and hawks from her chicks, she sells iris rhizomes to the greater DC area and teaches college application workshops from her barn.
