Cyrus Shepherd-Oppenheim

Teacher

Education

A 2012 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Cyrus Shepherd-Oppenheim currently serves as a Los Angeles high school teacher with Teach For America. The service organization has highly competitive entrance requirements and is more difficult to enter than the Peace Corps. Cyrus Shepherd-Oppenheim’s current position builds on extensive academic tutoring experience and a past position as math and English teacher’s assistant with the Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Disabilities Resource Department. In the latter capacity, he assisted students with severe cognitive disabilities in both one-on-one and classroom instructional situations.