Cecile Gregoire

Cecile Gabrielle Gregoire knew at an early age that she wanted to work in the communications field. Through a career in public relations, she discovered her passion for storytelling to promote brands and create a buzz by connecting the right messages to influence the right audiences. The art of the pitch, spinning stories, bringing the spectacular to the mundane—these are some of the things she enjoys doing as a PR professional.

A French native, Cecile moved to California in 1986 and attended ESL where she excelled and learned English in three months. The local paper wrote a story about English classes for foreign-born students and her teacher was quoted saying that she gets a lot of help from Cecile, one of her students from France. “She has more English than the others, so I think she can empathize with the others,” she said. “She should be a representative of the United Nations. Cecile won’t shut up; she’s even speaking Japanese.”

With more than 15 years of experience writing articles for tech publications, Cecile has a unique voice that shines through in her newest book ‘The Amazing Alphabet Book of the Last Dodo Bird’, which was written in collaboration with her mother and illustrator Maggy-Pierre Pelissier.

In her spare time, Cecile loves to play Chopin, Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, and Satie on her piano. Following in her mother’s footsteps, she is a self-taught artist and finds inspiration from her favorite Cubist painter Pablo Picasso.

Cecile currently lives in San Francisco, California and works out of her home where San Francisco’s most recognizable icon, the cable car, glides up and down her street every day.