Administration: Board and Management

Jane Fabulet-Roberts

Jane is originally from Rouen and attended l'Ecole internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She taught for three years at the Portland French School and coordinated that school's after-school program. She taught at the Skinner Montessori School and has taught both adults and children at the Alliance, for several years.

Judy Kafoury

Leslie Averill

Native-born Oregonian with heart left in France after first visiting the country in 1981. Extensive stays in France only increased my appetite to learn more about french culture and other French experiences available to me in my native U.S. country. At the AFdP I met Madame Sabine de Carbonnel (one of it's founders)who helped inspire me and understand the "Vrai Francaise"; whose stories and language classes continue to enlighten and educate me to this day.

I will forever be a student of the french language and lifestyle and hope to eventually live part time in the South of France.

Marie-Pierre Wolfe

I was born in France near the city of Lyon, and I grew up in the wonderful Vercors National Park in the pre-alps mountains overlooking the city of Grenoble. In July 1964, at the University of Grenoble Cafetaria, I met a very charming American boy from Boston who was spending the summer studying French in the program for foreign students. Beginning with this first meeting, we spent a long life together, that took us studying , teaching and travelling from Europe to Japan, where we got married in Kyoto , then to New York City, Paris, and Cornell University in Ithaca New York and we finally settled down in Eugene Oregon, from 1981 to 1999 , where both my husband and I were teachers, him in the Asian Studies department at the U of O and I as a one of the founders of the French Elementary School program of the Eugene 4-j public school district. Eugene was the place where we also raised our two children, Mikael and Marika. After my husband passed away in 1998, I went back to France where I was a school principal and a teacher for the past nine years until I very recently decided to come back near my children and to retire in Portland after a long career as a teacher of French as a Foreign language, as well as of French Litterature, in France, Japan and the United States.

Gilles Faure

Gilles Faure resides in Portland with his wife and three children since 9 years. He is a Teacher at the French American International School where he is also the Summer Camp Director. He holds a Bachelor's Degree of French literature. He traveled extensively in Europe and spent two years as a lecturer in the University of Port-Harcourt (Nigeria) as well as a teacher and cultural events organizer at the local Alliance Francaise. Gilles also holds a sport degree (French Boxing) which gave him the opportunity to travel and work in different countries and French region. Beside sport, he likes arts and any kind of music.

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Linda Witt

Executive Director, has a Bachelor's degree in French and International Economics, K-12 teacher's certification, and was certified by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris and the French National Ministry of Education as Business Translator. She has 10 years of experience teaching adults (software and professional skills training) and three years' experience teaching French and German in Montessori environments; Linda managed language schools in Bellevue, Washington, and worked for 5 years in development for a French-American immersion school. Since 2009 she has served as the Vice-President/Portland on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest.

Brad Bertram - 3B Web Creations

3B Web Creations was established in 1996 by Brad Bertram. His company provides personalized Web Design & Maintenance services.

Jean-Claude Balland
Jean-Claude Balland spent half his career in France and half in the US, where he and his wife Mireille, reside since 1984. He's a business consultant, professor, and lecturer with experience in marketing management in Europe, the United States, and Japan for technology products. After a long career in the corporate world, Jean-Claude is now an adjunct professor at OHSU School of Science and Engineering and at Portland State University where he teaches master courses in technology marketing and innovation. Jean-Claude is the president of Cercle français, whose mission is to allow people to practice French language while learning about interesting events, people or places.

Jean-Claude holds a EE from INSA, in Lyon, France and is a Doctor in Physics from University of Lyon, France.

Bev Voytko

Bev Voytko worked as a group insurance underwriter in Seattle and Boston before deciding to stay home to raise her two children in Ramsey, New Jersey, just across the river from New York City. Looking for a challenge, beyond that of parenting, she took on a series projects in the Ramsey school district, at the request of the Superintendent, ranging from directing the Junior Great Books program, to chairing the Parents Advisory Committee to the Gifted and Talented Program, to spending two years as Vice President and three years as President of the Ramsey Public Education Foundation. Having moved to Portland in 2002, she searched for ways to connect with fellow Francophiles and discovered the local chapter of the Alliance Francaise. As she became increasingly involved in Alliance activities, she was honored to be invited to join the Board and in January 2008, to be elected its president.

Sherri Roberts

Sherri Roberts has an MA in Literature; she taught Literature and English at Notre Dame de Namur in California and worked as a technical writer in high tech in Palo Alto. Five years ago she moved to Portland where she has been working as an independent contractor for several non-profit organizations.

Kimberly Shute

Kimberly, whose British parents inspired her to travel, was raised in Corvallis. Having lived overseas in Trinidad and Tobago and then as an au pair in the countryside of Marseille, the desire to travel was secured. Kimberly has worked as an Event Planner organizing events; such as Sales Kick Off's for the hi-tech industry, meetings with the Committee of the President of the United State's Department of the Arts and the Humanities, fundraisers and weddings. Enjoying the freedom of working for herself, she has renewed her real estate license within the past few years. She loves outdoor sports and has participated on two occasions in Cycle Oregon.

Gérard Philippon

A native of Le Mans, France, Gérard Philippon came to the United States in 1975 and moved to Portland in 1997. He is the proprietor of Versailles in the Pearl.

Sherry Charles

Sherry Charles is an Alliance student and avid Francophile who has enjoyed an active career in corporate advertising.

Kathryn Mascorella

Kathryn Mascorella has a Masters in French from Middlebury College in Paris/La Sorbonne and a BA in Pedagogy from Colorado State University. In addition to French, she enjoys Italian, German and Spanish.