Astrid Stanfield-Pinel

During her 17 years in Phoenix, Astrid was a member and chairman of numerous committees and benefits: the Junior League (as a board member), the Cancer Society, the Crisis Nursery, the Senator's Cup Tennis Tournament at John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch for Hospice of the Valley, and Recording for the Blind. She organized events for French dignitaries at a high level in the economic and political spheres.

She was at the origin of the sister cities relationship between Phoenix and Grenoble, was a board member of the Sister Cities commission, and created "une Semaine Française" in Arizona in 1989. She launched the Phoenix branch of the Poste d'Expansion Economique of Los Angeles for Arizona in 1993.

Astrid joined FHS in 1988 while creating the Phoenix Chapter, where she received President Giscard d'Estaing. After her return to France she became Co-Chair with Isabelle de Laroullière of FHS' 15th Anniversary Celebrations in France in 1997, Vice-Chair of the 20th ACF, then Chairman of the 25th ACF in 2007.

She had been Chairman of the Paris Chapter since 2000, and in 2009 became Chairman of the Cercle des Amis. Astrid received the decoration of Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite.