My Profile

The breathtaking Rocky Mountains of Montana in times of unparalleled safety and freedom provided a great start to life’s journey on earth.   With unlimited room to explore and absorbed motivation from my parents creative motivation to learn by experience, I’ve steadily built a repertoire of understanding and lasting friendships in select places across this shared world. The awe and adventure of discovering and learning within new landscapes with diverse cultures fuels my passions, which include teaching, sharing music, dancing, yoga, and various forms of physical exercise daily that allow for enhanced enjoyment of the great outdoors.

The best part of life has been sharing experiences and gained knowledge with students, family and with kindred souls. Caring people have always surrounded me, but for the past fourteen years, I’ve been extremely lucky to share experiences with my soul mate Cathy and our beautiful, trilingual sons, Toky and Andry. Watching our family grow in a world with endless opportunities has further fueled my drive as an Educator committed to preparing optimistic and motivated young adults.

The path I’ve forged has shaped my professional aspirations. I’m especially passionate about designing problem-based study programs appropriate to local contexts across scale, from local to global. Starting from the ground up, I pair readings and discussions with practical experience and continuous reflection to enable more grounded knowledge and deeper human connections within the cultural landscape where one is learning.

Although everyone learns differently, my experience shows that a combination of methodologies allowing a variety of learning styles enables critical cultural understanding with ethical considerations. Working alongside students and colleagues mainly in Madagascar, Cameroon, Mali, France and the US has rewarded me with the fulfillment of making life-changing impacts on many lives while continuously enriching my own. Flexibility, patience and perseverance have been key to a journey that has led me to over forty countries on six continents, touching lives and helping to prepare the lives of both international and host country students for over twenty-five years through educational methods that embrace cultural perspectives and innovative experiential learning.