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¡Hola! My name is Jessy Elfstrom, and I will be teaching Spanish at Crossroads! I am originally from Lebanon, NH, and went to Dartmouth College, majoring in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, with minors in Portuguese and Government. During Dartmouth, I was fortunate to spend three trimesters in Brazil, where I cultivated a passion for language learning and a curiosity in international affairs. Following college, I joined the U.S. Navy, and have been serving as an intelligence officer for the past 15 years. In the Navy, I deployed several times, both on an aircraft carrier and with an expeditionary strike group, and I served tours in Japan, Bahrain, Florida, Virginia, California, and Mexico. I earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy while in Mexico from the Universidad Panamericana, where I had
to write and defend my thesis in Spanish. I also have an Associate Degree in the Spanish Language, which I completed at the Defense Language Institute before living in Mexico. I am greatly looking forward to embarking on this next chapter in the field of education, where I hope to share my enthusiasm for Latin America and Spanish with the students at Crossroads Academy. It is very fulfilling to have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to this amazing community of the Upper Valley, to which I am so thrilled to come back home.