Marcos Protheroe is a Spanish immersion teacher at Barnwell High School in Barnwell, South Carolina. His students have won awards from the National Spanish Exam, the National Digital Poster Contest, the Long Island Design-a-Card Contest, and the Augusta University Language Day Contest. In his spare time, he works as a freelance reporter for Eye on Jacksonville and The Resident Community News. Protheroe grew up in Avondale and graduated from Robert E. Lee Senior High School and Florida Junior College at Jacksonville. At the University of Florida, he earned two bachelor degrees, one in Spanish and one in broadcast journalism. He also holds a master’s in Spanish from Texas A&M University and a doctorate in Spanish Studies from the University of Puerto Rico.