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Sarah Klenbort was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She has lived, worked, and studied in China, Wales, New York, and Sydney. She graduated from the University of Glamorgan, in Wales, in 2001 with a First Class Honours Degree in English. In 2006, she received a Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University. In May of 2009 she received her PhD from Binghamton University, in New York, where she also taught literature and creative writing to undergraduates. Dr. Klenbort has taught—English, literature, and creative writing—for over ten years. She currently teaches literature at the University of Western Sydney, and creative writing at Sydney Community College. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in literary journals and magazines in Australia, Britain, and the U.S.

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I have been teaching at TAFE since 1991 and at Sydney University – Continuing Education since 2008. I remain passionate about teaching and believe one of the best quotes I have ever read was at NSW University which read:“ Monolingualism is curable”.

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Jaclyn Knight. Tutor of CCE

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Richard N Kocsis, Ph.D. is a psychologist and criminologist. He is the author/co-author and editor of books, book chapters and articles on topics related to criminal profiling, aberrant violent crime, forensic psychology/psychiatry and the law, political violence and counter-terrorism. Over his career, he has served as an expert consultant to law enforcement, emergency and prosecution agencies as well as law firms.

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Peter Koit. Tutor of CCE

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Maria Kokkolis has an MA (Arts) and a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught both secondary school students and adults at schools and language colleges throughout Sydney. In addition to her teaching commitments, Maria is currently completing her Bachelor of Law degree at the University of NSW.

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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 of 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. In addition, Emily has been 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 a foreign language.

Emilie is an experienced researcher. She was a research assistant 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 descendant of 19th century German immigrants. In the course of her research work, Emilie has been involved in German-to-English translation and she has also worked independently as a translator.

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Joyce Kolevris. Tutor of CCE

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Valeriya was born and raise in Russia. She has decided to dedicate her life to marine research at the age of 7. The passion for the sea was past on to the Valeriya by one of her school teacher, was a Second World War veteran and who had great passion for the ocean. Valeriya fast-tracked her last year at school, so she can move to Australia at the age of 16 and join James Cook University. She has successfully competed Bsc, Graduate Diploma of Research Methods and Msc. She had fantastic opportunity to work with leading scientists in the world. Most of her research in JCU was performed in the field on Orpheus and Lizard islands. Later on she has joint UNSW and work on a range of environmental projects. Valeriya is an experienced diver with over 200 research dives logged.

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Ana Kondic. Tutor of CCE