I live in Washington, DC and I work at a private, nonprofit organization called Meridian International Center. I work in the Programming Division of Meridian and we operate under a grant from the State Department to arrange professional programs for international visitors who participate in the International Visition Program sponsored by the State Department. We arrange programs for visitors from all over the world and oftentimes, I work on projects that include visitors from French-speaking countries. I have had the opportunity to use my French skills not only at work, but when I have traveled abroad. In fact, immediately after I graduated from Skidmore, I moved to Paris for a year to teach English at a public high school.