Kelly Violette

College Counseling Program Director, Spanish

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

Kelly began teaching Spanish at Eastside Prep in 2009. Her favorite part of world language instruction is seeing her students develop the skills and confidence to use their language to make authentic connections with people and cultures from around the world. A highlight for Kelly has been leading EBC travel experiences to Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Spain, and Mexico, 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 conversation 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 2025, Kelly stepped into the role of College Counseling Program Director, working closely with Bart Gummere to oversee our College Counseling program.

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.