I've been teaching and instructing for most of my life. I started as a dance and Pilates instructor for 7 years. I moved on to teaching English as a Second Language whilst living in Turkey for 3 years. I went back to school for an undergraduate degree in Ecology, and then later finished up with a Master's degree in Conservation Biology, with a focus on geographic information systems (GIS). During my Master's I taught Introduction to Evolution and Ecology to first year undergraduate students at