LM

FOKAL - Executive Director

After completing high school in her native Haiti, she studied theater and art history in England and in the United States (BA, MA) and communications in Canada (MA). Since 1982, she has worked in positions of responsibility in the US and Canada. She returned to Haiti after the fall of the dictatorship in 1986 and worked at the Haitian Ministry of Education in a team in charge of developing new pedagogical tools. In 1987, she became program officer at the Haitian Association of Voluntary Agencies for training and communications programs while conducting theater workshops for grassroots groups and later teaching at the Public University of Haiti. Since 1995, she has assisted the board and executive director in the creation of the conceptual framework and administration of FOKAL where she held the title of deputy director. In 2008, she became Executive Director of FOKAL. She serves on the artistic advisory board of the Centre d’Art and on the boards of directors of the TiPa TiPa Foundation and of Healing hands Foundation.