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 Canadian Specials Host Fran Stoddard crosses the border to check in with our neighbors to the north. Join her for a look at the fascinating lives of Bernadette Allen, Jacques Bensimon and Kathy Reichs in three Canadian Specials. Return to PROFILE > * * * Bernadette Allen U.S. Consul General in Montreal Bernadette Allen was brought up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where smarts and an interest in the French language earned her a scholarship to Central University of Iowa. While teaching English in Marseilles, France, she was recruited into the U.S. Foreign Service, for which she has served in embassies in Burundi and the Philippines and consulates in Japan and China. In the midst of these assignments, Allen completed a master's degree in Human Resources. She has received several State Department Honor Awards for management and leadership skills. Allen became Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal in 2002. She is also an avid tennis player and fan. [RETURN TO TOP] * * * Jacques Bensimon Canada's Film Commissioner & Chair of the National Film Board of Canada www.nfb.ca  Jacques Bensimon was a young teen when his family emigrated from Morocco to Montreal. He got into filmmaking early on, winning a Radio Canada young filmmakers competition at the age of fifteen. He completed a film degree at New York University and returned to Canada to work for the National Film Board (NFB). Bensimon is credited in over 30 NFB films. He left the board to launch TFO, the French network of TV Ontario, and was COO of the internationally renowned Banff Television Foundation before becoming Government Film Commissioner and Chairman of the National Film Board of Canada. Bensimon was appointed Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and has also received an honorary doctorate from York University, Toronto. [RETURN TO TOP] * * * Kathy Reichs Montreal-based Forensic Anthropologist & Best-selling Crime Novelist www.kathyreichs.com  Kathy Reichs was raised in Chicago and schooled at American and Northwestern Universities. She is one of a few dozen board-certified forensic anthropologists in America. As such, she works for the State of North Carolina and the Laboratoire des Science Judiciaires et de Médecine Légal for the Province of Quebec, and internationally on special projects. She is also a professor at the University of North Carolina. In 1995 she began to write novels about her work, featuring her fictional counterpart, Dr. Temperance Brennan. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, became a New York Times and an international bestseller; subsequent thrillers have followed suit. The prolific author's seventh novel was released this month. Reichs, married with three grown children, divides her time between Montreal and Charlotte, North Carolina. [RETURN TO TOP] * * * Return to PROFILE > |
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