Shams grew up between Montréal and Tunisia, navigating life in French, Arabic, and English from an early age. Living across cultures shaped her understanding of what it means to learn a language not just in a classroom, but through navigating the unwritten rules of a shared meal, decoding a fast-talking local’s sarcasm and perfecting the confident nod and smile while your brain catches up to a joke told three minutes ago. She is fluent in French, English, and Spanish, and happily gets into trouble in Portuguese, Mandarin, and Arabic because curiosity beats comfort every time. Shams has led expeditions and educational programs in Canada, Hong Kong, and Latin America, facilitating experiences that invite people to connect more deeply with themselves, each other, and the world around them. From planting potatoes in a subarctic regenerative farm to swapping stories over dumplings in a language immersion program in Taiwan to painting icebergs with natural pigments in an art residency in Greenland, Shams believes that the best learning happens in an immersive environment.