About the Essay Institute

The Essay Institute was founded by Erick Widman, a lawyer from California, and his wife Ivy, who (fortunately for Erick) is a talented web designer. The original idea for creating a website that would help students improve their writing came after Erick had taken the state bar exam—a test that demands excellence in essay writing.

From its very beginning, the Essay Institute has been strongly influenced by the philosophy that meticulous attention to detail and systematic practice will lead to success. We put this perspective into practice every day as we help college and graduate students improve their term papers, theses and essays.

Erick is EI's head tutor and he oversees the work of the other tutors on staff. Prior to working full-time at the Essay Institute, Erick was Corporate Counsel at Philips Corporation in Silicon Valley and also taught for a year at the Budapest College of Economics. Erick can be reached at: erick@essayinstitute.com