Mina Leazer is a career educator. After 20 years of teaching French and ESL, she enrolled in the Teacher2Librarian program offered by New York City Public Schools. She has taught in Paris, Cairo, Amman, and East Brunswick, NJ. She has a BA in French from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in TEFL from the American University in Cairo, and a MS in Library Science from Long Island University. She is a writer and loves the human story. She currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and their two cats, Alistair and Saoirse.