I am a native English speaker from the suburbs of Chicago, and received a B.A. in Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (Spanish) from Eastern Illinois University in 2003. I have lived in Chile since 2008, and have achieved a near-native level of fluency in both writing and speaking. I have translated the text for a number of websites, including my own personal site. I have also published a number of articles at Medium.com, in both English and Spanish. I regularly contribute articles in Spanish to the Medium en Español publication.