She works for the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) as School Library Specialist. Colet spent 13 years as a teacher-librarian before joining the OPI in 2007. Her first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 and she first held a job in a library as a third-grade student. Colet completed her M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction at Montana State University, and B.A. in English with endorsements in secondary English, School Library Media and English as a second language at the University of Montana.