Olivia R.

Smith Street Workshop is a tutoring, educational enrichment center and French immersion preschool in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

In the fall of 2013, Olivia started a small tutoring practice out of her apartment on Smith Street. To meet the growing demand for tutoring and academic enrichment in Brooklyn, she founded Smith Street Workshop in 2015. In 2016, the Workshop added a French Immersion morning playgroup to its offerings, and 2018 marked the opening of Smith Street Maternelle, a fully licensed French Immersion Preschool.

Before her career as an educator, Olivia studied French and traveled extensively abroad. After graduating with a dual-degree in French and Psychology, she worked as the assistant director to Earlham College's semester abroad programs in Paris and in Fort-de-France, Martinique. She deepened her knowledge of French by being immersed in the culture, making lifelong French-speaking friends, and now by being a part of the French/American community here in Brooklyn.