1,064 ratings
AP Biology nerd
Chantelle B.
I make biology feel like systems talking to each other.
Education
Spelman College
B.S. in Biology, minor in Marine Science
Hometown
Charleston, South Carolina
A note from Chantelle
“I don't want you to memorize the Krebs cycle.”
I want you to redraw it on a napkin and tell me where every carbon goes. Biology is a story about energy and information moving through a body, and once you can trace that flow, answers stop being things you recall and become things you can rebuild from scratch. Confusion is just a diagram you haven't finished yet.
Chantelle’s story
Chantelle grew up on the Charleston peninsula and spent middle-school summers at the Fort Johnson marine lab, learning to tell a mud snail from a periwinkle before she could parallel park. She failed her first organic chemistry exam at Spelman with a 58, nearly switched majors, then spent a semester rebuilding the whole course into hand-drawn metabolic maps and finished with an A-minus. Those maps became her teaching method. She is open-water certified and still logs quarterly reef-survey dives for a coastal estuary lab, where she counts oyster recruits the same way she once counted carbons through glycolysis: one labeled arrow at a time.
What students say
4.9 ★ · 1,064 ratings
“I started AP Bio around a 72 and got a 5 on the exam. Chantelle made me redraw cellular respiration from a blank whiteboard every session until I could do it in under two minutes, no notes. Dihybrid crosses finally clicked the day she drew one out like a family tree instead of a grid.”
“Anjali's first unit test came back at 56 and we were genuinely worried. Two months later she pulled a 94 on the cumulative final. The strange part is she now wants to study marine science and talks about oyster reefs at dinner. I did not see that coming from a kid who hated science in September.”
“Pre-med here. I bombed the photosynthesis section of my intro bio midterm with a 61. Chantelle had me sketch the light reactions as an assembly line, and I scored a 91 on the next exam. She finds the exact step where your logic breaks instead of re-teaching the whole chapter, which is why nine sessions was enough.”