Kelly Violette

Spanish, College Counselor

M.A., Hispanic Studies, University of Washington; B.A., Spanish, cum laude, Pomona College; Certificate in College Counseling, earned with distinction, UCLA Extension

Kelly is a Seattle native who developed a love of Spanish over the course of many years of study, beginning in the 6th grade. Her passion for language is rooted in a deep commitment to exploring and learning from other cultures around the world. She has lived abroad for a year each in Spain (where she spent her junior year of college) and Puerto Rico (where she worked as a rainforest adventure guide), and has traveled to many countries in Latin America. Kelly began teaching Spanish at Eastside Prep in 2009 and since then she has led EBC travel experiences to Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, and Spain enjoying once-in-a-lifetime experiences such as swimming with a raft of sea lions in the Galapagos and hitting a line drive to center field against a team of ten-year-olds in La Habana. In 2013, Kelly launched a YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/ProfesoraFox) featuring Spanish Grammar music videos, which quickly became a student favorite.

In 2015, Kelly joined the EPS College Counseling team as a Process Coach.  She loves this role most for the opportunity it provides to engage in meaningful conversations with students about who they are, what they care about, and what they envision for their lives at school and beyond as they prepare for the next chapter in their lives. She is honored to support students and families through this exciting and empowering rite of passage.

In her free time, Kelly loves to spend time with her spouse and her daughter; run, swim and play in the mountains; read in comfy chairs with pretty views; and try to keep track of her two enormous, misbehaving cats. She fervently believes that any challenge can be overcome with enough dark chocolate.