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While attending university, Jean worked at a shelter for battered women from 1979 until 1987. She later helped establish a network of shelters for women and children across Canada. Jean also worked in organizations that helped immigrants to Canada and then later worked for Employment and Immigration Canada (now Human Resources and Skills Development Canada) and at the Conseil des Communautés culturelles du Québec, where Jean began writing about the experiences of immigrant women

While attending university, Jean worked at a shelter for battered women from 1979 until 1987. She later helped establish a network of shelters for women and children across Canada. Jean also worked in organizations that helped immigrants to Canada and then later worked for Employment and Immigration Canada (now Human Resources and Skills Development Canada) and at the Conseil des Communautés culturelles du Québec, where Jean began writing about the experiences of immigrant women

==Perosnal Life==

==Personal Life==

She is married to filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond, who has made several films that were seen as sympathetic to the cause of [[Québec]] separatism. They have a daughter, Marie-Éden, adopted from Haiti.  

She is married to filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond, who has made several films that were seen as sympathetic to the cause of [[Québec]] separatism. They have a daughter, Marie-Éden, adopted from Haiti.