An educator at heart, she sees education as broader than existing only in a classroom and is definitely not very traditional in her methods. With a love for developing programs and an ever-present bank of ideas, she finds that there never seems to be enough time, energy, and money to do everything. Being single helps, and sometimes it doesn't. Here in France, she is an independent (after all, the accountants were just "trying to help"), teaches English, and does a bit of translation.

Debbie is a representative for the International Business Program at UC Berkeley Extension and is trying to develop a total summer immersion English program (in August). She tries to do her part in developing people's English skills. She can be reached using her website, westlanguage.com.