Cécile Kestenbaum

Cécile Kestenbaum grew up in the Paris area. She received her master’s degree in teaching Spanish from the University of Paris Ouest la Défense and completed the competitive test to become a certified teacher (C.A.P.E.S.) in France. She taught middle and high school students for about ten years, where she organized trips and exchanges in Madrid to foster language learning. She then lived in Seattle, WA for seven years where she started her French teaching journey at the Department of Defense and at the Alliance Française de Seattle, until her relocation to New York in 2020. She became a certified French teacher from the Alliance Française de Vichy and is working on her Masters of French as a Foreign Language from the University of Clermont-Ferrand. When she is not teaching French or Spanish, you can find Cécile on a yoga mat, playing with her two feline children, reading, or checking out independent movies.