As the daughter of diplomats, French mother and American father, I was born in Pakistan and lived in Vietnam and Morocco where I was schooled in French. I started American schooling in 6th grade in Virginia and continued through High School in Belgium. I went to College in Paris, where I got my degree in French at the Sorbonne. Later, I graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor's in Anthropology.

I have worked as a translator in the three languages since my years in Co...