Francesca Ferraris

Francesca is a native Italian. She moved from Rome to Vienna, Austria at the age of six. She completed German and Romance Studies with a Master's degree at the University of Vienna, where she later worked as an academic researcher with a special focus on German literature of the 17th century. For 12 years, Francesca headed one of the Wiener Volkshochschulen -- a renowned adult education center in Vienna. She has been teaching Italian and German classes of all levels for more than 30 years, and enjoys watching how students reach the ultimate goal of language acquisition, namely being themselves in a foreign language. Francesca moved to Boston with her family in 2007 and joined CCAE as German instructor in 2010. She became part of CCAE's program team in 2017 and is program director for languages.