Vincent is a U.S. strategy consultant who holds bachelor's and master's degrees from UCLA, where he later served as an application reviewer for the university's prestigious merit scholarship program. As a former writer and editor at USC, he worked alongside National Academy of Medicine members and mentored aspiring journalists who went on to publish in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Economist. His own reporting has been cited by the OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative project between Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Toronto universities. Vincent has successfully guided students from across Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East to secure admission offers from top institutions including Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU Stern, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, Harvey Mudd, and the University of Toronto.

Laila holds an AB in Social Studies with an emphasis on post-colonial theory and history from Harvard University, and an MM from the New England Conservatory in Jazz Voice. While in college, she held leadership roles on the Undergraduate Council, the Arts & Humanities Student Board, and a variety of activist organizations, including the Harvard Graduate Student Union.