Quiz - what's unusual about this NDG resident?

So this woman here.. I've never met her but she lives in the Deeg near Monkland and teaches Trifluviens at The Three Rivers University.*
    So I'm told she's just a normal and very pleasant individual but there's something highly-unusual about her that you'd never guess by looking but it's physical.
   It was deemed sufficiently unusual to  lead someone to make a documentary about her that was broadcast on that big big educational channel in the states.
   Anybody know? Or can you guess?
  *Seems far, I know..  I know a guy from MoWest who teaches at Queens and says that plenty of other Montrealers teach in Kingston, so remind me to write about weird-commuting Montreal professionals one day, when the research is completed, of course, lest I be accused of ultracrepidarianism.

  Clue: Her ethnic background is not what it might appear.