With a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in French Translation (Queen’s University) and a Bachelor of Education (University of Ottawa), Michelle Barchuk started her career in education as the Assistant Director of Admissions at Toronto French School. She spent 15 years in the classroom as a highly successful Core French and French Immersion teacher at Royal St. George’s College, Withrow Avenue Junior Public School, and, most recently, Kingsway College School where she taught Intermediate French for 7 years. Michelle has also worked at Surrey Place Centre as a bilingual Autism Spectrum Disorders consultant. Michelle is a keen photographer, a world traveller, and a lover of music and theatre.