Mary RaeMary Rae was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Virginia. She graduated cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature. In 2014, she began taking Ed Fields' online classes and has been studying the language ever snce. In 2018 she passed the Cherokee Nation's proficiency test and, in 2019, she received her teacher certification from the Cherokee Nation. Mary has created Cherokee language curriculum for DAILP, the "Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence," and maintains a youtube channel, "Tsalagi Elohi Igvnadena," dedicated to songs sung in Cherokee. Read More Read Less