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Liem Truong. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Silvia is a native Italian speaker. She grew up in a small town close to Milan, then she moved to Madrid and in 2012 she came to Sydney. She received a Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Public Relations, a LOTE certificate from the University of New South Wales and a Teaching Certificate from the University of Sydney. Silvia has been teaching Italian to children, HSC students and adults at all levels for a number of institutions and schools including Co.As.It, Australian Catholic University and several local Sydney Community Colleges.

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Matt Tutty is an experienced Career Coach, Resume Writer and employment support professional with more than 10 years’ experience helping people improve their confidence, job search skills and career direction. His background includes career coaching, recruitment, employment services, resume writing, interview preparation and supporting job seekers from a wide range of industries, backgrounds and career levels.

Matt brings a practical, supportive and easy-to-understand approach to adult learning. He is passionate about helping people recognise their strengths, improve how they present themselves to employers and build the skills needed to move forward in their employment, study or career journey.

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A linguaphile and literary enthusiast, Penelope Vakalopouls is proficient in the literacies of Modern Greek, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Indonesian. She has a B-ARTS from the University of Melbourne with a Major in Arabic and Minor in Indonesian and is a current Honours candidate in Arabic at the same institution. Penelope has an expanding base of experience teaching all three languages and is particularly interested in the pedagogy of elementary Greek and Arabic, always reflecting on how best to introduce English-speakers to the elaborate and somewhat conservative grammatical systems of both languages while also engendering an appreciation of their historical and contemporary relevance. Penelope has plans for future combined research that might find a novel interchange between Arabic and Greek.

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Gavin brings a lifelong engagement with philosophy to his teaching, shaped by some 30 years professional employment here and overseas. He holds a double major in English and Philosophy (BA), and an MA (Honours) in Literature. He has tutored at the University of Sydney, and taught Communications at TAFE for over a decade.

By “going back to school” in early adulthood, Gavin experienced first‑hand the transformative power of education. In this time, he developed enduring commitment to philosophical study and inquiry. More than the study of ideas, he sees philosophy as an awakening—a way of discovering and resolving forms of un-freedom and, perhaps, to see afresh, at some deeper level, what we already knew

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After working as an osteopath in the UK for 16 years John realised a life-long dream and went to China to study Tai Chi for three-and-a-half years, receiving his teaching certificate in Tai Chi & Qigong there. He is also qualified as a Gym Instructor & Personal Trainer, which along with his osteopathic training and experience means he is comfortable teaching people of all ages and abilities. Since moving to Sydney he has taught in a variety of situations, from nursing homes to outdoor classes in Redfern Park.

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Wesley Watkins. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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WEA Sydney Ramblers. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Martin Wetherill is a commercial Videographer / Photography teacher. He has taught Cinema Studies & Visual Literacy in High Schools in Mexico & in Rome; where he discovered the art of the 16th Century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. His book Caravaggio da Roma will be published in 2026. He currently leads Photo Walks in Sydney’s Rocks district at night, and daytime explorations of the cinematic abandoned spaces on Cockatoo Island.

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Having spent 20 years in project and senior management in the IT industry working for companies such as IBM and Microsoft, Jenni-Lee moved into independent schools in 2003 as a science teacher initially and then in senior executive positions. Joining the AISNSW Leadership Centre at the start of 2016, she became the Dean in 2021. A strong believer in lifelong learning, Jenni-Lee has also taught in each of her roles, delivering Business Analysis and Project Management courses in Asia Pacific for IBM and Leadership development courses in her last role.

Jenni-Lee is passionate about neuroscience and has completed several qualifications through the Neuroscience Academy and the NeuroLeadership Institute in New York. Subsequently, she developed several neuroscience frameworks around leading in uncertain times and how the brain learns, and published her book The Other AI; Finding your Superpower with Neuroscience in 2023_._