Peggy Feehan is a native French speaker, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and educated there. She taught high school science before moving to Louisiana in 1999, when she was recruited by the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana to teach French, which she did until 2006.
Feehan earned her master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007.
From 2006 to 2014, she was a consultant, first for St. Martin Parish and then for the Louisiana Department of Education. In February 2015, she began working for CODOFIL, where her main duties included recruiting French teachers from France and Belgium. In 2018, Feehan was appointed as CODOFIL’s executive director.…