Mo joined l’Alliance Francaise de Detroit/French Institute of Michigan as Board member in 2007. He was elected President from 2014 to 2020. Is now reelected president starting in 2024. Mo is also, Board member of the Federation USA des Alliances Francaises since 2020 and Vice-President since 2024. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et des Métiers in Paris, Mo had a long career at General Motors, part of Global Manufacturing Engineering. He is currently the Director of Maintenance at the American Sailing Institute, where he also teaches sailing.
Timothée Valentin is an Assistant Professor of French in the department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. He holds a MA and a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Penn State University. His research focuses on the Guadeloupean workers’ movement at the turn of the 20th century.
Audrey Viguier is a French professor at Eastern Michigan University and a specialist in the French Revolution. She is a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms. Originally from southwestern France, she also writes about the political use of Occitan during the French Revolution and various 20th-century authors. Passionate about professional French, she was awarded the Palmes Académiques in 2016 for introducing training programs from the Paris Chamber of Commerce to American universities.
Jolene earned her doctorate in French Literature from Indiana University in 2001. A Professor of French at Calvin University since 1997, she has published in journals internationally on 17th century French authors like Paul Scarron, Molière, Catherine Bernard, Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès, and more recently, Charlotte de Caumont La Force. A long-time member and board member of the Alliance Française de Grand Rapids, Jolene was elected president in 2020. In 2021, Jolene was named Chevalière dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Consul General, on behalf of the French Minister of Education.
Cara Marie Young – Artist. Cara completed her MFA at Wayne State University in 2022 while receiving a Garrett T. Heberlein Excellence in Teaching award. Received the Artist-in-Residence Diderot Grant from Château Orquevaux in 2023. Dean’s Diversity Fellow at Wayne State University from 2019 to 2021.