I developed a love for travel and experiencing other cultures at a young age through traveling with my flight attendant mother. After graduating with a B.A. in philosophy, I sought to immerse myself in another culture by living abroad and teaching EFL. In 2016, I accepted an entry level teaching position at Amity, an English Eikaiwa in Gifu, Japan. I quickly fell in love with teaching and extended my contract, staying two years. With the aim of making English education my career path, I enrolled in the M.A. TESOL program at San Francisco State University. During my time at SF State, I was a teaching assistant and student teacher in a freshman writing course and a freshman grammar course, I became the treasurer and a team leader for Project SHINE which organized TAships for adult ESL courses at San Francisco Community College, and I earned a 4.0 in my graduate courses. After graduation, I moved to Valparaíso, Chile and began teaching both online for VIPKid (an English education platform in China) and locally with The International Center (a South American based English Academy). The pandemic offered me an opportunity to teach professors from the Univeridad de Chile through The International Center’s partnership with the University’s professional development department. During my two years in Chile, I developed my skills as an online English educator for both children and adults in these two very different settings. I returned to California in 2021 and began working as a curriculum developer with Schoolbird. I have been working with the Schoolbird team to develop a variety of application based EFL curriculum, create social media content, present in TESOL conferences, and participate in brainstorming and system learning activities. I continue to pursue my research interests of developing learning communities and I am applying that interest to the creation of the Schoolbird application.