Carla Foster is originally from California, but has lived many years in Norway. She graduated from UC Berkeley, California with bachelor’s degrees in Social Anthropology and Scandinavian Studies and a masters in Old Icelandic Literature and Norwegian Literature. She gained her AMI 3-6 diploma from the MMTO in London in 1984 and her AMI 6-12 diploma from Milwaukee in 1990 and has been working with elementary children since 1990. She had her own class in Norway for 12 years before joining the AMI Trainer of Trainers programme. In 2011 she became an AMI Director of Training for the Elementary level and has worked on courses in the US, Europe and India. Any spare time is spent doing various forms of dance.