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If you prefer to watch the presentations on "Why French Matters" separately, as opposed to the full event, please click on the name of the presenter below.

•Adam Gopnik, writer and essayist for The New Yorker magazine
•Charles Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development
•Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association and Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages, University at Buffalo, SUNY (on leave)
•Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University
•Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy in the U.S.

To read the French Embassy's 2011 Report on "French Language Education Programs in New York City's Public Schools", click here.