Staff & Partners
Staff: Joel Amis
Position: Executive Administrator
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Joel Amis was born in Atlanta (U.S.A.); he currently lives with his wife Yevgeniya Amis in Montreal, Canada.
Joel graduated from Georgia State University in religious studies. After graduating he worked for two years in Japan as an assistant English teacher. In 2005 - 2010 Joel 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 a member of Atlas Lodge in Montreal. He is also interested in mysticism/esotericism, politics (progressive/left), languages, religion/philosophy, history, environmentalism, car-free lifestyle, and various other cultural and intellectual subjects.
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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)
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"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: 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, website administrator and communication specialist
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Yevgeniya (Ĵenja) was born en Kiev (Ukraine). In 2005 through September 2010 she has lived in Atlanta, Georgia; she currently lives in Montreal, Canada. 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). In 2006-2010, she has worked with the American Red Cross as a Database and Direct Mail Supervisor and Market Analyst. 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: Peter BALÁŽ
ESF Project: Aktuale (Project Coordinator)
Born in 1979, worked ca. 2 years in Germany and Austria after studying at a hotel school. Publisher since 2003, active in E@I since 2003, coordinator in E@I since 2005. Creates articles, films and graphic designs in his free time. Hobbies: psychology, Metal music, books, Sci-fi movies, meditation...
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