The EFNY board is composed of 9 members who meet every month to discuss the associations aims and actions.

If you are interested in our activities and would like to reach our board, please contact info@efny.com

The staff of EFNY is composed of volunteer parents who represent the bilingual classes in the dual language programs, as well as parent coordinators who run after school French programs (FLAM) in their local schools. These parent coordinators ensure the continuity of the programs by building strong relationships with the parents, teachers, and administration of the schools where programs are run.

Catherine is an Associate Professor of French at Wesleyan University in the fields of autobiography and contemporary fiction. She is married to an American and they have a 12-year-old daughter who, given her age, could not benefit from the Dual Language Program, but has been in an after-school FLAM since its creation in New York in 2006.
Ms Poisson was recently named a “Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques”. She will be residing in France during the next academic year and will promote EFNY from the other side of the Atlantic.  She is extremely happy to finally share the Presidency of EFNY with Denise Bigo-Early.

Talcott Camp is a native New Yorker and an attorney who has practiced in the area of civil rights for fifteen years.  She joined the EFNY Board in 2009, and became Secretary in 2011.  She supports French-English dual language programs in New York’s public schools, and helped launch the program at her family’s zoned school, PS84, in Manhattan.  She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband and their two sons, who are becoming bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural at PS84.

Ms Delfau has spent her career in the online industry and currently works at Google. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, attended the American University of Paris at the graduate level, and received her Masters of Science from NYU. Ms Delfau works with EFNY on technical aspects of the FLAM program. A recent member of the board and site coordinator at PS41 since 2007, she is also responsible for coordinating and managing the other site coordinators in the program. Ms Delfau’s two bilingual girls, aged 9 and 12, attend EFNY programs in two different NYC schools.

Christophe Monier est ingénieur de formation et travaille pour une organisation internationale. Il vit à New York depuis 1996. Membre du Board et Trésorier de EFNY depuis 2007, il a été conseiller à l’Assemblée des Français de l’Etranger, représentant les français de la Côte Est des Etats-Unis, de 2003 à 2008.

Elisa is a freelance translator and has lived in Brooklyn since 1999. She is married and has two children, a 15-year-oldson and a 9-year -old daughter who attended the very first French-English program at PS58 in 2007. Elisa began her collaboration with EFNY as a FLAM coordinator at PS10 in Brooklyn, along with Beth Shair-Goyer. She then helped develop the communication tools used by the association and is now dedicated, with Beth, to finding solutions to promote French English programs at the middle school level.

Beth Shair, a New Yorker married to a French national, is a fluent French and Russian speaker with two decades of experience creating, managing and/or consulting on international development programs in the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans for the World Bank, USAID and other organizations.   She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. Her two bilingual daughters attend the French Dual Language program at PS 58, where Beth also chairs the Dual Language Program Liaison Committee. Beth is a former coordinator of the after-school program at PS 10 in Brooklyn and a former Secretary of the Board of EFNY. Currently, she leads the middle school dual language initiative to identify and work with public middle schools that are interested in starting future dual language programs.  She believes passionately in the importance of having opportunities within public education to become bilingual (or multilingual) in an increasingly international world.

Brooke moved to NY in 2008 and was immediately impressed with the motivation of parents to secure a high-quality, public school education for their children.  Upon considering schooling options for her own daughter and learning that incorporating French into the curriculum was a possibility, Brooke worked closely with EFNY to help start the FLAM after school and Dual Language Programs at PS 133 in Brooklyn. She is thrilled that her daughter is enrolled in a fantastic public pre-k program and honored to be a member of the EFNY Board.
Prior to living in NY, Brooke worked for the Translation and Interpretation Unit at the World Bank in Washington, DC and for EF and Embassy CES International Language Schools in Boston, MA. Currently, Brooke manages after school language programs for children in Brooklyn public schools through Kids Orbit.