The Team
Adèle Tornare
Cultural and Communications Project Assistant
Emmanuel Perez
Executive Director
David Woods
Operations Manager
Deborah Jourdanne
Cultural and Communications Project Manager
Messan Lawson
Customer Service, Certifications Manager
Hoorieh Rezasoltani
Customer Service
Pauline Alary
Teacher
Sarah Bécaud
Teacher
Karen Johanna Casallas Acero
Teacher
Gwenaëlle Malvoisin
Teacher
Julie Nolot
Teacher & Education Manager
Adèle Arpin
Teacher
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Pauline comes from Toulouse in the south of France. She lived in Ottawa in 2019-2020 so Canadian winters don't scare her!
Adèle has taught at Alliance française since 1997. She is an independent educator. She has worked for a number of years at all levels of language training in the public and private sectors, including creation, roll-out, coordination, and evaluation of training programs. The aspect she finds most satisfying is working directly with students, for whom she creates interactive and relevant activities that focus on students’ needs in the real world. She is tirelessly committed to her work. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.
Sarah comes from Angers, France. She arrived in Winnipeg and joined Team Alliance Française at the end of August 2021. She is passionate about travel and she is always curious to meet new people, to become familiar with different cultures and try new things.
Karen, 26. She taught French at the Alliance Française of Bogota and also taught Spanish in France, in middle and high school. Passionate about traveling, it is not the first time she comes to Winnipeg. She came by the capital of Manitoba 6 years ago, for the Francophonie of the Americas Young Ambassadors Forum. Curious, she is always looking for new activities to enjoy during the winter.
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With a business background and a passion for Language Arts, Messan is involved in numerous cultural and educational activities with the goal of promoting the French language. It's this same passion which has led him to the Alliance Française, where he's been an administrative assistant since 2016. In his spare time, he reads, and participates in cultural and sporting activities.
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Gwenaëlle comes from Dunkirk (France). She moved to Winnipeg in September 2019 after living in Germany and Italy. She enjoys watching movies and hiking. Passionate about travelling and computer science, she loves discovering new teaching technology.
After obtaining her Master’s in French as a Foreign Language in 2001, Julie decided to start her career by working abroad, and so spent a year in Maastricht (Netherlands) as a French Language Assistant in a primary school. Then, she worked in a language centre in Dijon, France for seven years, teaching French to employees of foreign companies based in Burgundy. She arrived in Winnipeg in June, 2008 (with her cat) to join the Alliance team. As Teaching Coordinator, Julie handles requests for private courses and distance learning, among other duties. Born in Troyes (Champagne, France), Julie has many passions: cooking, creative pastimes; her “heart will go on” for a certain well-known Canadian chanteuse…
Hoorieh joined the Alliance team in February 2019 as an Administrative Assistant. She came to Winnipeg in July 2018, and began her Ph. D. in French Language and Literature at the University of Manitoba. She obtained her BA in French Translation in her home country, Iran. Subsequently, she studied at the graduate level and she received her MA in Translation Studies. She is the author of a Persian-language book published in 2018 on the subject of Children's literature and translation challenges for this age group. Fluent in Persian (Farsi), French, and English, Hoorieh has also learned Arabic at school and she is really interested in learning different languages to become more familiar with other cultures. She loves to work in a team and with people from different cultural and social backgrounds. Her passions are cooking, reading novels, watching movies and documentaries, learning languages, and participating in cultural activities.
David joined the Alliance team in 2006 as an Administrative Assistant. He had previously worked in administration within the Francophone community of British-Columbia (his home province) --, as volunteer and occasional employee. Since coming to Manitoba, he has married a Prairie Francophone, is involved in his community, and is raising three little Manitobans.