I knew I was interested in education from an early age, when I would force my younger sisters to be my students as I taught them everything I'd learned in school that day. This interest endured throughout my teen years, as I joined my mother at her Montessori school to be a teacher's aide after my classes, later in my collegiate studies when I volunteered as a tutor to the local middle school, and also when I helped my fellow classmates with their study techniques. In my post collegiate life,