New York Office 20 West 44th Street Room 506, New York, NY 10036 Tel. 212 725-5380 Fax 212 686-8130 Email: elaine@afbny.org Elaine Uzan Leary, Executive Director

Paris Office 34, avenue de New York 75116 Paris, France Tel. + 33 1 47 20 22 28 Fax + 33 1 40 70 91 21 Email: afb.paris@free.fr

 

Elaine Uzan Leary has over 35 years professional experiences in promoting French language and culture in Boston including the creation of the school of the Alliance Francaise, the French American Chamber of Commerce in Boston, the French Theatre in Boston, a founding trustee in the Boston Strasbourg Sister City Association, plus twelve years in foreign language publishing with Heinle and Heinle and later Houghton Mifflin Company. Prior to joining the American Friends of Blérancourt last summer, Elaine’s most recent position was Executive Director of the French Library Alliance Francaise of Boston, considered New England’s most important French library, cultural center, and French language school. Raised bilingually (nee L’Heureux of French Canadian ancestry but originally from Picardie!), she was educated in France, in Strasbourg and in Paris, plus graduate studies at Middlebury College. Elaine Uzan Leary has received two French government awards:  Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Chavalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite.