Dr. Sarah Jones-Boardman is a professor of French at Minneapolis Community and Technical College with a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her focus is on teaching French language as well as Francophone literature and culture. Her research interests include questions of race, gender, and mobility in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures.
Sharon Marquart is a Professor of French and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of On the Defensive: Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies (University of Toronto Press, 2015), co-editor of a volume of essays on Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, French Forum, H-France Forum, The Romanic Review, Ethnologies, and various essay collections on World War II and the Holocaust.
Mikki Morrissette is the publisher and editor of Minnesota Women’s Press, the longest continuously run feminist publication in the U.S. The monthly magazine created a Changemakers Alliance spin-off to connect engaged feminists of all genders who care about solutions and action. Its attention to first-person narratives is rare in the media industry, to amplify the power of people to tell their own stories in their own voice.
She lived in New York City for 18 years, where she worked as an editor, reporter, and project manager for places including Time Inc. and The New York Times. She wrote “Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Women’s Guide” after proactively deciding to raise two kids on her own; they are now in their 20s.
Christina Selander Bouzouina was born in Minneapolis and moved to Europe during college. After living in London and Montpellier, she spent nearly 9 years in Marseille, working as an English teacher and program coordinator in lycées and universities as well as several private institutions.
Upon her return to Minnesota in 2007, she joined the Alliance Française de Minneapolis/St. Paul where she became the Executive Director in 2008.
Christina was appointed Honorary Consul of France in Minnesota in 2014. She was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre de Palmes Académiques in 2015 and Chevalier in the Ordre national de Mérite in 2024.
Christina serves as President of the Minnesota Consular and as Secretary on the Board of Managers of AFMSP Real Estate Holdings, LLC.