ADMINISTRATION & FACULTY
Pam Dreisin, Head of School
Pam has been involved in Independent School education for over 15 years. Her early years were spent right here at FAIS, when she served as the chair of the FAIS Board of Trustees, co-chaired our first successful Capital Campaign, and eventually as the Assistant Head of School. She then spent eight years at Oregon Episcopal School, a PreK-12 independent school with 835 students, where she served as the Assistant Head of School focusing on institutional advancement. She returned to FAIS in 2008 as Head of School, once again teaming with Jean-François Genay to lead FAIS through its next phase of strategic development. Pam has a Master of Science degree in Cellular & Molecular Biology, is a founding Board member of the Association of Independent School Admission Professionals (AISAP) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools (PNAIS).
Jean-François Genay, Executive Director
Mr. Genay has been an involved educator for nearly 40 years. He began teaching at the Lycée Français de New York in 1967 and became assistant principal within two years. He also taught at the United Nations International School, and served as the Coordinator of the French Program there. He then moved to become the Head of School at the Lycée International in Michigan. Later he was a teacher and Head of the French Section at the Sunset International High School in Miami, Florida.
In 1993 he crossed the continent to become Head of School for our own French American School. He served as Head from 1993-2000, leading the school through the development of the Gilkey International Middle School and a successful capital campaign to purchase land and provide a permanent home for FAIS. He left FAIS with plans of retirement, only to find that inactivity didn't suit him. His projects included development consulting as well as becoming Executive Director of the Lycée International de Los Angeles. He returned to FAIS in 2005.
