Chacko Kuruvilla is a high school english teacher at Oakwood School. Dr. Kuruvilla has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), an MA in Liberal Arts (Saint John's College Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico), an MBA (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota), an MFA in Literary Nonfiction (Columbia University, New York), and an MA and PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. He was an Instructor at the University of California Santa Cruz where he taught Creative Writing and American Literature from 2018-2023.