I a Daughter of a trust-busting Roosevelt-era-government lawyer, I’ve been a Democrat forever. I was leader of the formation in 2007 of DAF Bordeaux chapter, its first Chair (for three terms) but I have also served as vice-chair and multi-term Treasurer. I am married to William Bolter, an English wine merchant, and we have two fabulous daughters. Professeure des universités émérite at Sciences Po Bordeaux, for several years until the lockdown I gave a series of lectures at Mollat in cooperation with Utopia on current examples of film, my research field. I feel very much at home in France, and this is compatible with a strong permanent attachment to our country, and to the liberal Democrat ideals of my family. Women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, immigration, ecology, health care, dangerous right-wingers and lethal arms are problems requiring solutions, shared beyond America. I hope that problem-solving Democrats may light the way ahead for everyone and I am eager to help in the 2024 election.