(French professor Jocelyn) Couture-Nowak was born in Montreal in 1958 and lived both in Quebec and Nova Scotia before moving to Blacksburg with her husband in 2001.
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"She would approach anyone she heard speaking French to welcome them to the local francophone community."
Before moving to Virginia, Couture-Nowak helped found the Ecole Acadienne de Truro in Nova Scotia, which opened in 1997 to enable francophone families to have a safe school environment where they could have a French-language education.
