Pilo Mella is the Student Programs Manager of the DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago, Chile, and the Resident Director of the CASA (Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad) study abroad program. For four years, she worked in Boston as a Spanish language instructor at Harvard University, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts, and Boston University. Pilo spent nine years in Israel, where she took courses in Hebrew and taught Spanish in a public school in Tel Aviv. In Chile she worked as a teacher at the Universidad del Bio-Bio and at the Universidad San Sebastian, in Concepcion. A native of Chile, she holds a BA in Education from the Universidad de Chile.