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Vanessa has been tutoring and teaching English to native and foreign speakers for 4 years, in Tokyo, New York, Brisbane and now Sydney. Vanessa comes from a Project Management and Events Management background and has worked with some of the worlds largest companies such as Mitsubishi Corporation. Vanessa has a diploma in TESOL, specialising in business language and IELTS, she works for OzMigration as an IELTS specialist as well as for CH Entertainment as an Event Director.

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Devo Y. Devrim is a PhD candidate and a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He has experience in teaching EFL/ESL and academic writing for more than ten years. Following his BA and MA degrees in applied linguistics, he is currently working on his PhD research titled: ‘Development of Grammatical Metaphor in Academic Literacy through Online Language Support’. His research interests include teacher education, critical discourse analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics and World Englishes.

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Benito Di Fonzo is a journalist, playwright, poet and performer.

Benito has written for, and been profiled by, some of the finest, and lowest, publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun Herald, The Weekend Australian, and Bardfly Magazine, of which he was the editor, and possibly the only reader.

Benito has performed his poems and tragicomic travelogues in theatres, bars, pubs, piazzas, toilet cubicles and radio studios in London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Rome, Adelaide, Perth and Ubud (Indonesia).

Several of Benito’s plays have been performed at The Sydney Opera House, which is that big place on the harbour with the wings. He has written radio serials and plays for both 2SER and 2FBI, and has performed his work on those and other stations including ABC 702 & Radio National, and Resonance FM (London).

Benito’s most recent production "The Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman, AKA Bob Dylan (A Lie) A Theatrical Talking Blues & Glissendorf" was the hit of Adelaide Fringe 2010 and was followed by sold-out seasons in Sydney and Byron Bay that received a litany of glowing reviews.

In 2001 Benito was awarded the Inner City Life Literary Award by The NSW Writers' Centre. His favourite colour is irrelevant.

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Gianna Di Genua. Tutor of CCE

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Carmen Di Napoli is an artist and visual arts teacher who graduated from the National Art School and Alexander Mackie with postgraduate studies in art administration and studies in museology involving restoration of oil paintings and paper in Florence, Italy.

She has been a finalist in the Portia Geach and the Archibald and was seconded by the department of education as a consultant in Visual Arts and assisted with the development of Art Express. Carmen has traveled both to Italy and Japan on government scholarships to further her Artistic and language studies.

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Angela is a highly experienced teacher of Stage 6 HSC English and has taught in state, CEO and Independent schools in Sydney for thirty years. She has been English Coordinator at International Grammar School and Bethlehem College, and is currently the Senior English Coordinator at Reddam House. An HSC Marker and Senior Marker for a number of years, across Advanced, Extension1 and Extension2 English, she is constantly refining examination strategies to assist students prepare for the HSC. This background has underpinned great success at the HSC level with four of her students achieving a top ten ranking in NSW in the last ten years: 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2018.

Angela holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, Diploma in Education from UNSW and a Master in Educational Management and Leadership from the University of Sydney. She is involved in diverse associations such as the English Teachers Association (ETA) and Association of Independent Schools (AIS) and their conferences in order to maintain her knowledge of educational pedagogy and curriculum. She thoroughly enjoys the teaching and learning interaction with students and assisting them in achieving their goals.

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Dr Panayiotis Diamadis lectures in Genocide Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and serves as Vice-President of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is also a senior history teacher at an independent school in Sydney. The experiences of children during, and subsequent to, genocide are the key research interest, in particular Armenian, Assyrian and Hellene child survivors. Amongst his publications are ‘Children and Genocide’ (Genocide Perspectives IV, 2012), 'Australia’s First Commissioner for Refugees' (Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society June 2012) and ‘The Greeks of Sydney’ (The Sydney Journal November 2011).

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Robert taught HSC English for over 25 years at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney, where he was Head of English and retired as Emeritus Head of English. He also marked the HSC for the Board of Studies for 16 years, as Marker and Senior Marker. Robert was a member of the AIS English Reference Group in the consultative process to develop the Stage 6 English Syllabus, and also developed for AIS a series of Study Days for senior English students. In addition, he served as Chair of the AIS Professional Development Committee. He has taught HSC Advanced English Preparation at the Centre for Continuing Education since 2009.

Robert took a first-class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with majors in English Literature and Early English Language and Literature. He holds a Master of Arts degree, and a Dip.Ed. He was an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Early English Language and Literature at Sydney University, and lectured at the University of Al-Fateh (Libya) before taking up a position at Trinity Grammar. Robert is a keen writer, having written and adapted a series of medieval Mystery and Miracle dramas for school performance, and has published poetry. He has a particular interest in how language works, and has a strong commitment to helping students realise their full potential in the fundamental skill of understanding and utilising the power of language.

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Iva Dimitrova. Tutor of CCE

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Ruth Djordjevic. Tutor of CCE