Floriane is a native of Rwanda and has lived in the US since 1988. She is fluent in Kinyarwanda, French, and English and proficient in Swahili. Floriane has attended school in Belgium; has worked as a radio broadcaster; as a freelancer for UNDP and UNICEF; and worked as an English teacher at the American Embassy in Rwanda. In the US, she has worked for Pillsbury (now General Mills); the US Embassy in Ouagadougou; 3M; St. Jude Medical; St. Paul Companies and RBC Dain Rauscher.