The Minnetutor

For Twin Cities area students to realize their highest potential both academically and personally through educational enrichment and support, while building community and promoting a culture of local inspiration and edification. Nathanael McNair grew up in the Central neighborhood of south Minneapolis. A Banyan community scholar at DeLaSalle High School, he went on to attend Yale University and the University of Minnesota. After five years of coordinating tutoring, college prep and academic enrichment programs around the Twin Cities, he recognized that many local students and families were stressed by the pressures of our academic system. In many cases, they benefited from interacting with local examples of resilience and success nearly as much as from the institutional and academic knowledge being shared. He started The Minnetutor in 2019 to assist local students and their families through a community based model, connecting them to peer-like experts and promoting a culture of unity and neighborly support.