Madame Jolivet-Johnson is the owner of FRENCHFORFUN and a native of France. She holds a credential in languages and world history at the secondary level. She has been teaching for 30 years and participated in many institutes focusing on the teaching of languages at the elementary level. She is a member of numerous foreign language associations and has conducted seminars nationwide. She is recognized as one of the most experienced FLES* (Foreign Language at the Elementary School) teachers in the United States.

Madame Isabelle Magidson is native of the Central Western part of France called Poitou. She is married to an American, and a mother of two. She has the equivalent of a BA in English Literature and Civilization Studies, and has been teaching French as a foreign language since she moved to the US in 2003.
She is also a singer and guitarist, and very much enjoys using her talent as a teaching method.

Madame Kathleen is a native from the French-speaking part of Belgium. After completing her Master's degree and teacher training in 2003, she worked as an English and Dutch teacher (like her parents) in her home country for two years. She then moved to the UK where she started teaching French as a foreign language to children and teenagers. After 3 years in the UK, she moved to the US in 2009 to follow her husband who now works in the Bay Area.

Monsieur Baimba Kamara was born and raised in Paris in a multicultural family. His mother was an elementary school teacher, and his father (born in Sierra Leone) taught English, so education has always been important to him. He is passionate about contemporary art, both as a practicing painter and a student of art history. While attending La Sorbonne, he worked as a recreation supervisor in several elementary schools in Paris, and upon graduating with a degree in Art History, he moved to the Bay Area to be with his American fiancée, now his wife.

Madame Caroline Clerempuy is our new Office Manager and also assists us in other tasks with the children. She is a French native. Originally from Normandy, she grew up and spent most of her life in Paris area. She always enjoyed being around a multilingual community, and had the opportunity to work in various foreign countries speaking French, English, Spanish and German.
She came to California ten years ago when she was transferred by her Parisian employer to handle major accounts and sell packaging to the Napa & Sonoma valleys' wineries. She is now married to an American from Orinda and is a mother of two bilingual children.

She has a Bachelor's degree in business & marketing, specialized in International Trade.

Madame Parastou Nobari has a Master's degree in French Language and Literature. She grew-up attending French school starting from an early age. She is trilingual in Farsi, French and English. She has been in the field of education and teaching for over 17 years in college and university at different levels. Her experience includes teaching, training, developing and promoting French language programs, researching and implementing different teaching techniques, researching and providing supplementary subjects to text books, managing and supervising more than one thousand students and forty five instructors as the principle and supervisor of a French language center. She is a mother of a school age child