Mary Beth Spray

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.While earning a BA in French, I lived a year in Paris, France, attended the Alliance française and the Scola Cantorum de Paris for ballet, and hitchhiked to neighboring countries. The year in France and traveling to neighboring countries opened my eyes to a shift in my politics and worldview, but mostly I felt a tinge of emancipation from my conservative upbringing in the Dakotas. After earning a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, I taught for twenty-five years in Minneapolis Public Schools. As a French high school teacher and single mother, I supported myself and three children, and wrote grants for students of low economic status to participate in trips abroad. Before moving to Minneapolis, I taught creative dance and ballet in my home as a young mother. I live in Minneapolis with my husband of twenty-six years, enjoying gardening and traveling.

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