
Jane Mitchell
Partner & Head of Content
Jane Mitchell has lived outside of the UK for almost 30 years and has a wealth of knowledge and experience as a mother, teacher, writer and designer living abroad. She lived and worked in Cairo for eight years before obtaining a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Since 2003 she has been based in Catalonia, where she lives with her three teenagers in a village on the Maresme coast, just north of Barcelona. Jane became a partner at MumAbroad in 2012 and is now Head of Content. She specialises in writing creative content on all aspects of family life and living abroad and conducts interviews on our YouTube channel.
Jane is also a writer for The Good Schools Guide International, a UK based online publication, where she contributes independent reviews of international schools in Barcelona and she recently contributed a chapter on Identity to the anthology #LivingTheDream.
Carrie Frais
Founding Partner & Director
Carrie Frais is a British broadcast journalist, copywriter and PR consultant who has been living in Barcelona on a permanent basis since 2006. She has worked as a presenter, reporter and producer for some of the UK’s leading broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Sky News. She founded MumAbroad in 2008 and oversees the company’s business development, communications, strategy and sales. Carrie is also co-director of FiG Communications, a creative agency and is one of the founding members of Bremain in Spain and hosts the podcasts ‘The Soundtrack to My Life’, ‘Notes on Leadership’ and ‘Turo Talks’.
Carrie is a regular events host including for The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and South Summit in Madrid. She also co-authored and edited #LivingTheDream: expat life stripped bare which examines the more challenging aspects of life away from ‘home’. She lives with her family in Cabrils, on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Community for English-speaking families
MumAbroad meets the growing demand from English-speaking parents living abroad in Europe for concise, credible, updated and trustworthy information from international education and birthing options to family activities and relocation services. All advice is from expat mums living abroad.
MumAbroad was established in 2008 and fast became one of Europe’s leading resources for English-speaking families living in or relocating to key ‘international’ regions and cities in Spain, Italy, France & Germany.
This invaluable online resource offers parents hundreds of hand-picked listings on Maternity Services, Baby & Toddler, Activities for Kids, Family Services, Healthcare and Home & Admin. We offer a specific focus on International Schools, Educational Specialists, Therapists & Coaches and Relocation Services.
We offer an extensive archive of articles and interviews on our blog, MumAbroad Life and on our YouTube channel on a wide variety of practical and valuable topics and real life stories relating to family life in Europe.
MumAbroad has also become the go-to platform for female entrepreneurs – our Work Life directories promote solopreneurs, women working in start-ups, directors and CEOs.
MumAbroad’s social media pages – Instagram & Facebook continue to attract a growing online community looking to connect, share experiences, ask advice and give recommendations with other like-minded women living away from their native ‘home’.
Our team in Europe is able to offer an insider’s guide to life abroad, to help you through the tough challenges as well as the many joys. Our aim is to create a community of like-minded english-speaking women in Europe, whether they are parents or not, to form synergies and collaborations and to discover connections and forever friends.
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