Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore has some reasons to know about expatriation and multicultural education. In the last 15 years, she has lived in 7 countries on 3 continents. Before that, born in Pakistan, she grew up in Bahrain and New York. She then married an Italian-German husband and raised two multilingual children …
Throughout her experiences, she became an expert and author of several books on the education and life of children growing up "among several cultures", including the last one published this year, "The messy mobile life".
Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore is the guest of one of the conferences of the sixth Bilingual Fair, Saturday, November 23 in New York, where she will be interviewed by Sharon Schanzer, parent of a student at the French Lycée in New York. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities of multicultural and multilingual education.
The conference, in English, (Raising Happy Kids Between Cultures and Languages) takes place at 1:30 pm. (Registration here).
The full program of Bilingual Fair conferences:
10:30 am to 11:30 am:
11:45 am to 12:45 pm:
11:45 am to 12:45 pm:
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Mariam Ottimofiore Navaid
2:45 to 3:45 pm:
