Isabelle Jaffe

A resident of Toulouse with American and French citizenship, Isabelle received her Licence (BA) in English and philosophy and her master’s degree in literature from the University of Paris–La Sorbonne. She has been on the teaching staff of New York’s Marymount College and the Alliance Française in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Jaffe has taught French and English at several institutes and colleges in Toulouse and Avignon, and served as the supervisory director for the Centre International d’Etudes et de Loisirs, overseeing the pedagogy of the French language programs. She later directed the language and culture programs at the Centre d’Etudes Linguistiques d’Avignon. In addition to her academic positions, Ms. Jaffe has worked as a cross-cultural consultant for several firms in the Toulouse area, including Aerospatiale. Ms. Jaffe was academic director for the SIT Toulouse program from 1998 through 2014. In the Fall of 2014, she was hired to set up and run CIEE’s study center in Toulouse.