Our Team

Born in Venezuela from a French father and a Venezuelan mother, Patricia grew up bilingual in Caracas, speaking both French and Spanish at home. She then moved to France with her family and lived in different cities across Northeastern France. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Grenoble School of Management and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. After several years in logistics, she decided to pursue her passion for teaching! She has worked in France, Spain and the US for the past 10 years. In her last position, she was a Children’s Program Coordinator and teacher at the Alliance Francaise de Westchester (NY). In July of 2017, she moved to Dallas where she joined the AF Dallas as a teacher, before becoming the new Director in May 2018. She joined the Board of the Fédération des Alliances Françaises USA in October 2021.

Born in Brussels, Désirée was formerly a psychologist. Soon after she moved to the US in 2001, she started to teach French. She joined the Alliance Française de Dallas in 2016 where she has been working as Program Coordinator and French Teacher. She obtained the DELF and DALF certifications in 2017.

Born in Corsica, Eric worked in the fashion retail sector for almost 20 years. In his early forties, he decided to take a new turn in his life and moved to Lima, Peru. Soon after his arrival, he attended the Initial French Teacher Training in the Alliance Française de Lima where he taught then for 6 years. He obtained all the DELF and DALF certifications between 2012 and 2017. After moving to Dallas in 2018, he has been working as a teacher at the Alliance Française of Dallas since then. He later joined the administrative team at the beginning of 2019 as Program Coordinator Assistant. In February 2022, he transitioned and took over the Exam Coordinator position.

Born in San Salvador, Keren received a bachelor’s degree at the University of el Salvador in English and French. After that, she worked at the Alliance Française in El Salvador for 6 years as administrative assistant. While working at AF El Salvador, she also obtained a DELF B2 certification. She moved to Texas in 2019 and joined Alliance Française Dallas in November 2020 where she works as administrative assistant. Keren is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Born in France, Justine holds a Master’s Degree in Marketing from Toulouse Business School. She worked for more than 6 years in Tourism Marketing in Paris, promoting foreign tourist destinations on the French market. In November 2017, she moved to Dallas and joined l’Alliance Française de Dallas in June 2018 as Cultural Events and Social Media Coordinator.

Born in the United States. Nicolle received a B.S. in Statistics from the University of Notre Dame where she also began learning French. During her university studies, Nicolle lived in Paris where she participated in a French Language immersion program and held internships at Institut Pasteur and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Today, Nicolle is a data engineer at AT&T and an Economics Research Associate at Harvard University. She joined Alliance Française de Dallas in 2018 where she works as the receptionist.