Ruth Mastron

 
  • Ruth Mastron is vice-president of SoCoCo Intercultural
    providing training, consulting, facilitating and coaching in all 
    areas of intercultural relations. 

    She first developed her intercultural skills while studying and working in England and France, where her senior research project was an ethnographic study of proverbs relating to food and cooking in the Gascon culture in Southwestern France.

    Following several years in France teaching American language and culture, she moved back to the United States     to design and teach corporate French language and culture programs. 
  • Ruth works with clients in the high-tech and IT areas
    as well as industries as diverse as hospitality, manufacturing, property management, government, pharmaceuticals and agribusiness. 

    She trains and coaches US and European employees 
    and their families relocating overseas. She has also trained intercultural project teams, and worked with French and international schools. 
  • Ruth holds a Master's Degree in Intercultural Relations from Antioch University McGregor, and has earned over a dozen certificates at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. 

    She lives in Oceanside, California
    , with a French husband and two bilingual cats.