About Your Instructor
SEEMA MUKHERJEE
Seema Mukherjee is a businesswoman out of Salem, CT and owner of the Kumon Math and Reading Center of East Lyme and Glastonbury. Seema was born and grew up in the province of West Bengal, India near the city of Calcutta. She studied there, continuing through college with a focus on the geographical sciences and earning her MSC in GIS and Remote Sensing from Madras University. From there she came for the first time to the US to take an assistant-ship position at the University of Akron and earn her MS in Urban Planning. Seema then took a job with the US Fire Administration, a division of FEMA, as an urban planner/ statistician.
While working at USFA, Seema earned her MBA from Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD. Shortly after, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and worked in Eastern Michigan University before starting her first business, the Kumon Center of Adrian. She sold her thriving center in 2007 and moved to Connecticut with her family.
Now, 13 years later, Seema is the proud owner of two Kumon centers in Connecticut. Her work includes helping students of all ages reach their academic goals, and over the years she has touched the lives of many students. Seema works to help children with their early educational needs including the development of self-confidence and independence.
Seema is also involved with the local Indian community, sharing and striving to foster a greater cultural appreciation for her heritage through education and community outreach. In 2018, she founded AADITI (Academy of Arts, Dances and Traditions of India), a non profit organization with the purpose of bringing the ethnic diasporas together.