Mildrade Cherfils
GlobalPostMildrade Cherfils is a Paris-based correspondent for GlobalPost. Before moving to France in 2003, Cherfils worked in New York and Miami for the Associated Press, where she documented the plight of mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant workers who toil on the "backstretch" of the lucrative racetrack industry, covered the Elian Gonzalez saga in Miami, and reported extensively on immigration issues that affect the Cuban-American and Haitian-American communities. An alumna of Boston Latin School and of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Cherfils speaks French, Spanish and Creole. Since moving to Paris, her travels and work in media development have taken her to dozens of countries, including Ghana, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Liberia, Dominican Republic, Lebanon and Thailand.
Haitian diaspora reaches back home
Smaller aid efforts succeed where the large agencies fail.
Strauss-Kahn case reveals inequities in French society
France shows its hawkish side in Libya, Ivory Coast
A European anti-Islam movement grows
Paris conference brings together speakers from across Europe to rail against the dangers of Islamization.
France's long experience with terrorism
Recent warnings didn't rile the French, who are accustomed to being on alert.
French schools on front line of obesity fight
Fearing a US-style obesity epidemic, the French begin a Gallic battle of the bulge.
France starts expelling its Roma
French approve of deportations as means to combat crime, but EU warns against racism.
France: economic reality hits holidayers
Broke French still taking vacations, but it's getting harder.
Another windmill just what Paris needs?
An experiment to test wind turbines resembles modern art.
The French heiress and the president
Nicolas Sarkozy is embroiled in a scandal, but that's not the only reason the French are in revolt.
A café for the Paris sewing crowd
Owners of Sweat Shop aim to make stitching, knitting and crocheting cool again.
