I am a 2012 college graduate from Middlebury College, an institution best known for its superb foreign language teaching. I graduated with a degree in Japanese Studies and even spent a semester studying abroad in Tokyo my junior year.

After graduation, I spent an additional 7 weeks at Middlebury College studying Portuguese through its intensive Summer Language School Program, leaving the program with an advanced proficiency in the language. I also speak Spanish at home as it was my first la...