Meet Our Team

Carrie Catania

Center Director

Director

As Center Director, Carrie works with families and staff to create a successful learning environment for all students.  A teacher with over 20 years of experience in a variety of educational settings with students PreK-College. Carrie chose a career with Sylvan because she loves seeing students in a small learning environment where they feel safe to make mistakes and grow in confidence as well as knowledge and skills. She studied at North Central University where she earned a BA in Elementary Education. When Carrie isn’t at Sylvan, you’ll find her competing in triathlons, reading historical fiction books and enjoying the great outdoors.

Randy

Instructor

While Randy has many tutoring talents, he finds the greatest joy in Math tutoring and passing along much-needed mathematical skills to the next generation. He has a 40 year background in applied mathematics. When Randy isn’t at Sylvan, you’ll find him writing a data science book and watching lots of baseball.

Graham graduated from Concordia, in St. Paul, MN and begin his teaching career at Racine Lutheran High School in WI, where he taught Algebra 1 and Geometry. He currently teaches Pre-Calculus, Geometry and Probability/Statistics at Holy Family Catholic High School. He also enjoys coaching high school football.

Lori

Instructor

Lori has been teaching elementary students in 1st through 5th grades for 25 years. While she loves teaching all subjects her greatest passion is teaching students to read. She is currently teaching 2nd grade at Jonathan Elementary School in Chaska, MN. Lori earned her degree in teaching from Penn State University, and attended masters level classes at the University of Central Florida. When Lori isn’t teaching she enjoys walking her dogs, traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Varun

Instructor

Varun is currently at student at the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities studying Chemical Engineering. He as tutored students at the peer level throughout high school and tutored students at the local middle schools while in high school. He is a former Sylvan student who enjoyed his time and saw great success and we are excited to have him join our team. When he is not tutoring he enjoys being active and playing a variety of sports.