Connor griffin
I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a bachelor's in geology a couple years ago. I’ve been tutoring since then, across all major high-school subjects as well as the SAT and ACT.
At the beginning of 2025, I moved across the country—from my hometown in Seattle to New York City—to become more involved in attention activism. Now, as a facilitator at the Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn, I lead workshops that help groups create tools to deepen their focus in spite of digital distraction.
I was an avid reader growing up, but as I got older, my attention became less and less my own. Over the past few years, I’ve clawed it back. What I’ve learned in the process will help students do the same.
NICK PLANTE
I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022; I studied psychology and English there. My senior thesis research tested different methods to reduce unwanted phone use and reclaim agency.
I have since been involved in the movement to roll back the screen-based childhood and shift norms around social media behavior. I’ve worked with policy, research, and community organizations to support more humane product design and protect our attention.
Having tutored since high school, I recognize that the foremost aim of education is to nurture our agency—to choose what we focus on and to sustain that focus. Only then can we reap the benefits of deep reading and social presence, like insight, inspiration, and strength of character.
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