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Victoria Kitanov is a visual artist who specialises in portraiture and maritime themes. Victoria is the founder of Entrée to Arts Pty Limited and her intention is to help others tap into their creative core, find wellbeing and have fun doing it! Commencing her career in commercial art, Victoria worked as a children’s book illustrator for notable publishing houses including Ashton Scholastic, Harper Collins and Angus & Robertson (1985-1998). Victoria has also had a long career in the Library and Information industry and in the Australian Public Service. In 2011 she rediscovered her creative path quite by chance, and since then has forged a new chapter in her creative career. Victoria is an accredited Paverpol™ instructor.

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Janine Kitson has been a proud teacher working with the NSW Department of Education since 1982. In recent years she has been an active volunteer for many of NSW’s key environment groups. Through this involvement Janine has developed a particular passion for the history of the environment movement.

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Sandra Knowles. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Adam began his education and career in science at the University of New England where he completed a Bachelor Degree (Honours) and a PhD. His PhD in Ethology (the science of animal behaviour) investigated intriguing methods that birds employ to defend themselves from predators. From there, he completed a Postdoc on the interaction between rattlesnakes and squirrels. Currently, Adam is a zoo keeper at Taronga Zoo.

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Emilie gained her Arts degree at the University of Vienna where she studied German, Philosophy, Psychology and Education. She has extensive experience in teaching the German language: she has been a tutor, lecturer and course coordinator in German Studies at all the major public universities in Sydney; a tutor at the Goethe Institute (Sydney); a tutor and examiner for University access exams and a tutor in German to diplomats and company employees preparing for overseas assignments. As well, she was in charge of developing skills-specific courses in German for the metals, electricity, and wood industries and is the co-author of teaching materials on teaching German as foreign language.

Emilie is an experienced researcher. She was a research asistant for several books on the German-Australian connection by John Williams, and has worked in the German archives, exploring the family history of an Australian descendent of 19th century German immigrants.
In the course of her research work, Emilie have been involved in much German-to-English translation and she has also worked independently of this as a translator.

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Gretta Kool. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Dr Robert Kowalski is a Scholar of Classics with extensive teaching experience. He has been teaching Latin, Classical Greek and Philosophy since 1984 at various educational providers including St Patrick’s College, Barker College, North Sydney Boys High School, The Scots College, at the University of Sydney, and the Trinity Grammar School. He was also the Head of Classics at St Thomas Aquinas College. He completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Latin and Greek, as well as a Doctorate in Philosophy, Classical Studies and Culture. Robert has also written many articles on classical culture, classical texts and grammar analysis, as well as his most recent book on Latin Syntax.

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Holding two Masters Degrees, Michaela is an academically qualified language teacher. Michaela conducts German lessons at various institutes, schools as well as universities in Sydney to adults and children at different ages ranging from beginners to advanced level, offering conversation practice besides classes for school, university, travelling, business etc. Furthermore, she has gained experience in translating and editing. Michaela assists students to achieve their aim consistently in committing them full of motivation. By means of her empathy she is able to put herself in students' position and thus, to comply with both their requirements and their desires.

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Prakashni is a tertiary qualified, community- focused and results driven education professional with high level education leadership capabilities in VET teaching, learning and assessment practices with a career in the sector spanning over 13 years. She is determined in monitoring and evaluating programs to maximize outcomes for the student and for WEA Sydney as a leading regional education and training provider and has held positions such as Regulatory Assurance Officer (TAFE NSW); Administrator/Office Manager (Smart Knowledge Services), Sessional Lecturer and Tutor (Central Queensland University), Business Trainer/Assessor (international Language School, Canada), Learning and Development Facilitator (Local Government Professionals Australia NSW), Business and Management Facilitator (Macquarie College) to name a few.

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Vivienne is an academic with an MA, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University, as well as being a food writer, culinary columnist, and published cookbook author. Her book, published in 2014, is Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine and Food Culture of Bali (Tuttle Publishing).