Meet the Team

  • Liza Libes

    FOUNDER & CEO
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (BA)
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (MA)

  • David Libes

    CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (BS)

  • Dr. James Dunlea

    HEAD OF COLLEGE READINESS
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY (BS)
    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (MS)
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (PHD)

  • Maya Jodidio

    HEAD OF TUTORING
    BARNARD COLLEGE (BS)
    NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL (MD)

  • Izzy Tanashian

    HEAD OF OPERATIONS
    THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL (BM)

  • Davit Gasparyan

    COLLEGE READINESS SPECIALIST
    UC BERKELEY (BA)
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MA)

  • Dr. Andrea Fields

    COLLEGE READINESS SPECIALIST
    JOHNS HOPKINS (BA)
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (PHD)

  • Alex Horn

    COLLEGE READINESS SPECIALIST
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (BA)


  • Madison Bondy

    COLLEGE READINESS SPECIALIST
    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (BA)
    EMORY UNIVERSITY (MA)
    EMORY UNIVERSITY (MPH)

  • Emily Brother

    COLLEGE READINESS SPECIALIST
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY (BA)

  • Andrew Jin

    COLLEGE & TUTORING SPECIALIST
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (BS)

  • Shariq Jumani

    COLLEGE & FINANCIAL AID SPECIALIST
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (BA)

  • Alex Sobczynski

    TUTORING SPECIALIST
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (BS)
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (MS)

  • Karl Tayeb

    TUTORING SPECIALIST
    JOHNS HOPKINS (BS)
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (PHD)

  • Heather Robinson

    ATHLETIC RECRUITMENT SPECIALIST
    DUKE UNIVERSITY (BA)

  • Danny Dontoh

    CAREER COACH
    UPENN WHARTON (BS)

About Us

In Latin, Invictus means “invincible.” Based in Houston, Invictus Prep is a female-owned academic and college readiness startup founded by two siblings who both worked extensively as tutors and identified a pervasive gap in student writing quality and overall academic preparation. Armed with an entrepreneurial mindset, they created a revolutionary curriculum where students could more methodically map out their futures through a holistic approach aimed to tackle all aspects of college readiness. We hope that through career coaching, writing prep, and even some life coaching along the way, your child will become a strong thinker and communicator to achieve anything his or her heart imagines. Through our program, students become invincible.