Kate Buche-Pattison received her Bachelor of Arts with a double major of English and Comparative Languages and Linguistics and a minor in Environmental Studies from Earlham College in Richmond Indiana. After graduating, she taught as a Bilingual Assistant in public schools throughout Indianapolis, working with English and Spanish speaking students and families. Kate has also worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Rostock, Germany where she worked with grades 6-12 language learners and teachers. Kate has studied abroad at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador. She speaks Spanish and German.