While at Lee University, ChloĆ© focused on Spanish and pedagogy, and spent time in Peru, Colombia, and Guatemala. ChloĆ© took a gap semester between high school and college in which she traveled to Peru where she volunteered as an English teacher at a nonprofit which worked with students living in extreme poverty, and began learning Spanish. While in college, ChloĆ© was awarded her university’s promising future educator award. She has also presented at language and education conferences in Guatemala and Colombia. ChloĆ© is now a high school English Language Arts teacher and English department head at an international school in Quito, Ecuador, where she has lived for the last three years. ChloĆ© has an advanced proficiency in Spanish and will continue in her role as a high school English Language Arts teacher in the fall. Aside from teaching, ChloĆ© enjoys crafts, cooking, and is teaching herself to sew. She has led Putney programs in Ecuador.