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Mark (President)
Email: mark@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Mark has had extensive experience researching vegetarian health issues as well as the environmental impacts of a healthy vegetarian diet. He regularly develops and presents talks on behalf of Vegetarian Victoria regarding vegetarian issues, including the sustainability of a meat-free diet. As well as President of Vegetarian Victoria Mark is the Event Manager for World Vegan Day and regular guest speaker for organisations such as student groups and university clubs. |
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David (Vice President)
Email: david@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
David is one of the founding members of Vegetarian Victoria and has been actively involved since 1998. His main role currently is producing our email newsletter Voices. He has been veggo since 1987 and vegan since 1991 and loves keeping fit and healthy. He is a very keen mountain bike rider and gamer. |
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Katherine (Treasurer)
Email: katherine@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Katherine became a vegetarian when she was a teenager, believing it to be a positive path to take out of respect for her own body and the world around her. She's also a Scout Leader and enjoys conservation, travel, and working with young people. She's studying to be a teacher and one day hopes to teach English overseas. |
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Will (Secretary)
Email: will@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Will co-ordinates the Media Writers email group which sends letters to the newspaper in response to topical issues. After going veggo and then vegan for primarily environmental reasons, Will has developed a strong interest in the role veganism can play in health and human potential.
Will is a pianist and composer, and gives concerts from time to time in different parts of Melbourne. In his spare time he enjoys improvising, listening to music, reading about philosophy, researching, visiting national parks and doing meditation. He also has a passion for gourmet savoury raw food cuisine, and always enjoys making up a storm of raw falafel, raw nut loaf, gazpacho, wilted kale salad or almond milk! |
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Jeff (Committee Member)
Email: jeff@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Jeff assists at stalls and Vegetarian Victoria events and is often helping to fix office computer and website issues of the geek variety. Jeff's main reasons for adopting a vegetarian diet are environmental and human rights. |
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Kyle (Committee Member & Webmaster)
Email: webmaster@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Kyle was born in South Africa but has been traveling around the world and has settled in Australia. He has been vegetarian his whole life and recently turned vegan. He believes strongly in animal rights and currently works on Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary with rescued farm animals. Kyle has been working hard constructing this new website. |
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Meghan (Committee Member)
Email: meghan@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Meghan manages a lot of the office activities and can also be found helping out at Vegetarian Victoria stalls, writing media releases and Vegetarian Victoria instructional manuals and assisting our intrepid interns to develop their professional skills through volunteer work with the organisation.
One of Meg's main reasons for becoming vegetarian stems from a respect for all humans, and the need to reduce our total consumption to address world poverty. |
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Sascha (Committee Member)
Email: sascha@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Having been a vegetarian his entire life, Sascha chooses a vegetarian lifestyle for predominantly humane reasons, but also believes strongly in the associated health and environmental benefits, which make the eating of meat simply indefensible in his view. For Sascha, vegetarianism is more than simply a dietary preference, it is a way of life - it guides the way in which other life forms are treated and determines the position in which we see ourselves in the world/universe, necessarily invoking a spiritual perspective. Sascha believes humanity should ultimately aspire to compassion for all creatures and envisages a future world without animal cruelty where everyone is vegetarian. Otherwise, Sascha works in the legal industry and has an interest in the development of animal welfare law. |
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Bruce (Research Coordinator)
Email: bruce@vegetarianvictoria.org.au or
research@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Bruce Poon is a volunteer for Vegetarian Victoria and previous incarnations of vegetarian groups in Victoria. He started 'The Case for a Vegan World' Wiki. His main focus is on informing himself and others of the real advantages for the world of adopting a vegan lifestyle. This includes the environmental benefits, health benefits, reduction in suffering, economic and other societal benefits. He conducts lectures for schools and councils in Melbourne and tries to extend the knowledge of veganism to those within the 'green' community.
Bruce is also the Founder and Chairman of OzQuest: Young Australian Adventures (http://www.ozquest.org/) which is a charity that takes young Australians overseas to perform community and scientific work in the majority world. He is currently leading the expedition program to Namibia in Africa. Bruce is on the board of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Victoria.
In his spare time, Bruce is also the CEO of two computer companies, designs computer games, develops property and learns swing dancing. |
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Emily (Social Dinner Coordinator)
Email: social.dinners@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Emily loves sharing her passion about veganism through social gatherings. She became vegan in 2007 due to animal cruelty, world poverty and starvation. She later discovered the health, environmental and overall benefits of adopting this diet and philosophy through reading the literature of Peter Singer and Will Tuttle. She loves the veggie/vegan community and believes this is the most important change she has made to her life. Emily is a pianist and teacher who enjoys bushwalking, camping and meeting new people.
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Pamela (General Volunteer)
Email: pamela@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Pamela's reasons for being a vegan besides the environmental and health issues are based on her dedicated compassion and love for animals. She works as a beauty therapist and encourages people to follow a cruelty-free beauty regime.
Her other great passion is running, trekking and working out in the gym. She enjoys painting and other craft activities, loves gardening and experimenting with vegan cuisine. |
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Reece (Media Liaison Coordinator)
Email: media.enquiries@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Reece became a vegan out of a love for animals and a concern about their treatment. He is currently studying a degree in journalism and enjoys writing, philosophy, sport, nature, and hanging around university. He also enjoys going out for a coffee with friends, cooking vegan food, and working on his first novel.
Reece also volunteers for Animals Australia and is willing to help out whenever possible for a cause he believes in. |
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Ron Prasad (Volunteer Co-ordinator)
Email: volunteers@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Ron is an author, speaker, Life Coach, Executive Coach, and a very passionate Vegetarian Victoria volunteer.He has been involved with Vegetarian Victoria since 2008, and is keen to spread the healthy and compassionate message through a vegan diet!
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Nidhi Dube (Co-Webmaster)
Email: webmaster2@vegetarianvictoria.org.au
Nidhi started volunteering with
Vegetarian Victoria in early 2011, but is an IT Consultant by day, and vegetarian foodie by life.
Being
a vegetarian all her life, she is passionate about living a
compassionate life, and also exploring the endless wonders of the vegetarian cuisine. Nidhi loves to eat out and explore new vegetarian cuisines, shop, cook, read amazing inspiring books, but overall is a girly girl by heart. She wants to raise awareness of a vegetarian diet, hoping to remove the hippie stigma attached to it.
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