Today is Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Jessica Acuna

Office Assistant

Jessica began working as a paralegal assistant in May 2003 during her summer break from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She returned for a few weeks in January 2005, before spending her final semester studying abroad at Roehampton University in London.

After graduating in May 2005 with an English degree and a Film Studies minor, she spent three months backpacking through eastern Europe. She lived in Prague while earning her post graduateTEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) accreditation.

She spent last summer in India as a tourist and doing volunteer work.

She works full time in the office. In addition, she is an MA student in the graduate English department at Belmont University. She plans to graduate in June, 2008, and hopes to continue for her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt. Jessica has a 4.0 average at Belmont. She is also taking private pilot lessons.

She departed Nashville for the Far East May 6 for over two months in Japan, Thailand, and Cambodia. The first three weeks in Japan will be with fellow Belmont students in an English study program concerning Samurai warriors.