She was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taillon in the Montérégie region for the Parti Québécois.
[1] Malavoy attended the Collège Marie de France, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy.
She attended the Université de Sherbrooke and worked there from 1977 to 1992, and from 1999 to 2006 as a teacher, vice-dean and dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
[1] Malavoy first entered politics in 1994 and was elected in the riding of Sherbrooke where she was briefly the Minister of Culture and Communications in the Jacques Parizeau cabinet.
She had to step down from her position on November 25, 1994, as it was found that she had illegally voted during the Quebec Referendum in 1980 as well as other federal and provincial elections since she was not a Canadian citizen at the time.