Rebecca Santhi founded Curio after a career spanning 20 years in the education sector. As an educator, Ms Rebecca believes that students ought to both enjoy learning and take ownership of it. She is on a mission to cultivate “The Well Educated Mind” – minds which are always curious, critically engaged and excited by the breadth of human knowledge that lies available. The teaching environment she creates is collaborative, a thought-provoking space where students participate in the learning process and arrive at well-guided conclusions.

After obtaining her Masters Degree from NTU and post graduate diploma in education from NIE, Ms Rebecca went back to her Alma Mater to teach the IP as well as Gifted programmes in English and English Literature at Raffles Girls’ Secondary School. As a department level representative there, she led a team of teachers in the rigour of planning, teaching, marking and examining. She then went on to work at Yuan Ching Secondary School, where she obtained extensive training in the teaching and examining of the GCE O Level programme.  From there, Ms Rebecca moved on to the tuition industry, chalking up experience in both running a tuition centre and teaching private students in the IP, IB, O and A Level Programmes.

In her free time, Ms Rebecca cooks and bakes, everything from pot roast to chocolate cake. She also enjoys reading extensively, which often leads to inspired writing. 

Chung Ming See coaches English and English Literature at Curio. She believes that learning is a two-way street and prefers to think of her students as co-creators of knowledge. She strives to create an environment where students feel safe enough to ask questions and share perspectives and hopes to be able to make learning an enjoyable experience by rendering subject content relatable to her students. 

Ms Chung started off as a teacher at Seng Kang Secondary School where she taught English and Literature. While there, she also headed the Whole-School Approach to Effective Communication programme. She then went on to work at various government departments in the Ministry of Education and Ministry of National Development respectively, covering various portfolios from early childhood to curriculum policy, before finally returning to her initial passion and accepting an offer to teach English and Literature at her Alma Mater, Raffles Girls’ School. After a happy few years there, she has recently relocated to Italy to begin a new adventure.

In her free time, Ms Chung enjoys the modern-day pleasures offered by television and music streaming services, and likes to travel, take photographs, write, and play the guitar. She also likes to play with her dog. 

Nadya works at Curio as a wordsmith. She enjoys getting out of her comfort zone to experience growth and progress, pushing past fear and taking action to move closer to her goals. 

Nadya graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree. She has always had an affinity for literature which is why she started off her career as a writer. She eventually worked as a legal officer in industries from general aviation to mining but knew that she would always go back to her first love, writing. She has grown to understand the importance of being an autodidact – constantly striving to learn and improve upon her various skill sets.

Nadya was born and raised in Jakarta. Outside of work, she enjoys writing in her notebook, watching 60s movies, playing with her cat, learning the ukulele, and spending time reading in cool cafes by herself.

After studying Management and International Business at Royal Holloway, University of London, Vanessa realised her fascination when it comes to businesses — and immediately enrolled in a Masters of International Business at the University of Birmingham.

Not a morning person, but more of a person post-coffee, Vanessa is a lover of getting down to it, making a way and solving problems. She believes ideas come in many forms and that’s the complexity of our weird and wonderful brains.

A chronic binger of Netflix, she’ll cross over into free-to-air if it involves anything crime and investigation. Vanessa also happens to love a cheese platter… We don’t hire cheese lovers on purpose, they just end up here somehow.