Marie Ponterio is a native of France and teaches French language and civilization at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She’s the author of the website Civilisation française and the recipient of several awards from Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Resources. She has co-authored the culture notes in the Bien dit! program and reviewed all the Géoculture sections. In addition, she has co-authored video activities for several high school textbooks.