I'm from Charlotte, North Carolina. I attended Winston-Salem State University and majored in Political Science with a minor in History and Spanish. During my undergraduate degree, I studied Spanish at the University of Granada in Spain.

After college, I worked as a Tutor with Communities in Schools at a local High School. There, I observed an ESL classroom and that sparked my interest in teaching ESL. In the fall of that year, I enrolled in the graduate program at the School for Internation...