Staff & Collaborators
Staff: Jason M. Clark
Position: Executive Administrator
Profile:
Jason Clark is the Executive Administrator of the Esperantic Studies Foundation. He was introduced to the foundation by Dr. Mark Fettes while he was pursuing graduate studies in psychology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. As Executive Administrator, he is responsible for carrying out the various administrative and business requirements of the organization. He also manages the foundation’s websites and newsletters.
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ESF Operations
400 – 601 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 4C2
Canada
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Name: Ellen Eddy
ESF Project: NASK (Nord-Amerika Somera Kursaro)
Position: NASK Administrator
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In 1970, Catherine (Cathy) L. Schulze and her husband William (Bill) H. Schulze persuaded administrators at San Francisco State University to expand their language offerings to students with a program on Esperanto. The program was established as the North America Summer Esperanto Institute / Nord-Amerika Somera Kursaro (NASK). From the very beginning, NASK was envisioned to meet two objectives: to train new Esperanto instructors and improve the language levels of US Esperantists.
NASK moved to the University of San Francisco in 2001 and between 2002 and 2006 it relocated to The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. In 2007, the program returned to California and took up residence at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) with the help of ESF Director and UCSD professor Grant Goodall.
In addition to managing the various administrative responsibilities, my chief role now is to help students who want to participate in NASK: specifically, those who wish to apply for scholarship assistance. I also arrange accommodations for both instructors and students with the university conference centre.
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11736 Scott Creek Drive SW
Olympia, WA 98512
USA
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Name: Katalin Kovats
ESF Project: Edukado.net (Website manager & editor)
Profile:
"I am a philologist and a certified teacher of Esperanto, Italian and Russian languages, and a specialist in teacher preparation. I have a Ph. D. on propaedeutic value of Esperanto and I taught over a hundred Esperanto courses and seminars all over the world.
I collaborate with the International League of Esperanto-Speaking Teachers - ILEI (Internacia Ligo de Esperantistaj Instruistoj) and an Esperanto socio-cultural magazine Monato. Also, I am an author of some learning materials and books (they were published under the name K. Smidéliusz). Now, my full time (almost day and night) job is editing Edukado.net to help those who want to disseminate our language. My husband Sylvain helps me a lot, and also (a little less) our little son Martin and our many friends and colleagues.
To learn more, please go to Edukado.net"
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Name: Sonja Petrović Lundberg
ESF Project: Lernu.net (Project Coordinator)
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Sonja is the official coordinator of all lernu! Projects.
"In the year 1998, as a 15-year old, I decided to learn Esperanto to experience countries other than the ex-Yugoslavia, where I was born. In retrospect, it was a good idea: thanks to Esperanto, I have done a lot of international travel, until 2004, when my daughter Iva was born. In 2005 we moved to Sweden, the home country of Iva's father, Hokan.
Aside from Esperanto projects and playing with the little one, I study and I enjoy reading, meeting friends, growing flowers and vegetables, and decorating our new home."
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Name: Hokan Lundberg
ESF Project: Lernu.net
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In lernu! Hokan helps with programming, courses, and planning.
He was born in Sweden in 1972 and in 2002-2005 lived in Serbia with the TEJO activist Sonja Petrović. Hokan was educated as a programmer and high school teacher of computer science and mathematics. He has worked on Esperanto projects full time since 2002 and hopes to be able to continue this work during the coming years.
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Name: Jevgenij Gaus
ESF Project: Lernu.net, Nitobe.info, Aktuale.info, ESF Website (Chief Programmer)
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Name: Yevgeniya Amis (aka Ĵenja Zvereva / Евгения Зверева), Translator
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Yevgeniya (Ĵenja) was born en Kiev (Ukraine). Since 2005 she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated as a journalist and editor (of Russian and Ukrainian) from the National Technical University of Ukraine, the Printing and Publishing Department.
In Ukraine, she worked as a journalist with a number of newspapers and magazines writing mostly about tourism. From 2002 to summer 2007, she was the editor of Kontakto – soci-cultural magazine of UEA/TEJO; she was a co-editor of TEJO Tutmonde (2004-2006) and Esperanto USA (2005-2007). Since 2006, she works with the American Red Cross. Yevgeniya is a Rosicrucian; she loves editing, translating and languages; Yevgeniya loves all animals, especially dogs, and walks in nature.
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Name: Joel Amis, Translator
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Joel Amis was born in Atlanta (U.S.A.), where he now lives with his wife Yevgeniya Amis.
Joel graduated from Georgia State University in religious studies. After graduating he worked for two years in Japan as an assistant English teacher. Since 2005 Joel has worked for the State of Georgia.
Joel has been an Esperanto-speaker since 1994. In 1999 he studied advanced-level Esperanto during the intensive summer Esperanto courses at San Francisco State University. His main Esperanto activities have included, among others, editing TEJO Tutmonde and Esperanto USA and proofreading/co-editing of Kontakto.
Joel is a Rosicrucian and an active member of the Atlanta Rosicrucian Lodge. He is also interested in mysticism/esotericism, politics (left-wing), languages, religion/philosophy, history, environmentalism, car-free lifestyle, and various other cultural and intellectual subjects.
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