Felicity Jane Kirkwood is English and worked for Royal Dutch Shell for 28 years and is a Trustee of the British Hospital in Buenos Aires. She has a degree from Birkbeck College University of London (UK). She has lived in Germany, Guatemala, India and Singapore and enjoys nature, opera and literature.

Guillermina Gordon is a lawyer with degrees from the University of Buenos Aires and the Instituto Nacional de Derecho Aeronautico y Espacial. She speaks Portuguese, Spanish and English and has studied music for many years and edited an album with Matias Chapiro on Spotify.

Ines Rapela recently moved to Argentina after years of living in the USA and is a body/mind/emotion therapist. She has a degree from Wake Forest University and has studied the Ruben Synergy method in Canada and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Boulder, Colorado (USA). She speaks both English and Spanish and enjoys travel, reading and gardening.

Anke Nickel is the Consul of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. She received degrees from the Friedrich Schiller University and the Fachhochschule des Auswärtigen Amts in Germany. She speaks Russian, Spanish, English and German.

Ashley Diaz is a lawyer from the USA who works in Hospitality and Tourism. She has degrees from Mississippi College and the Mercer University Law School. She speaks both English and Spanish and enjoys music, sports and travel.

Noemi Hendel is an Argentine Secondary, Normal and Special Education Teacher of literature. She has degrees from the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain. She has taught painting, drawing and ceramics and her profession consisted in relating art with literature, technology, and communication. She speaks English, Spanish and German.

Silvia Sneidermanis is Argentine and received a degree as a “Traductora Pública Nacional” from the Universidad Nacional de la Empresa and a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics degree from the University of Nottingham (UK).

She has worked in education as a professor of English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin and is a member of the Women Writers Committee of the Centro PEN Argentino.

She speaks Spanish, English and French and enjoys reading, poetry, travelling and classical music.

Cherie Joye, from the USA, has a Bachelor of Arts degree from St Olaf University (USA) and a Master of Arts and a Master of Public Health from the University of Wisconsin Madison (USA). Her principal research focused on institutional health and wellbeing and the implementation of mental health and behavioral health screening in primary care units.

She also has a Master of Arts degree in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and spent 25 years conducting cultural, geopolitical and ethnographic research in Hungary and Rumania.

She is currently launching two entrepreneurial projects in Argentina promoting health and wellbeing.

Lia Schleimer has her realtor’s license and studied at the University of Colorado and Santa Fe Community College (USA). She works in marketing and advertising as a real estate agent for RE/Max Platinum and has also owned her own real estate company in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico and was associated with Sotheby’s Intl Real Estate in both Mexico and the USA. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and enjoys biking, scuba diving, skiing, opera and film.

Catalina Estrugamou is a lawyer with a degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina and a degree in Dirección de Empresas Agropecuarias from the Universidad de San Andres. She works in the field of agribusiness as president of Buen Arbol S.A. She has lived in Chile and the USA and speaks English, Spanish and French. She enjoys literature, French and Russian history and art.

Charlotte Pritchard, with a BA degree in history from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom works in communications, PR and media. She has worked as an Executive producer for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Current Affairs, BBC Creative Challenge and BBC Digital Current Affairs.

Maggie Brennan attended the University of Wisconsin Madison (USA) and Iona University in New York (USA), has a master’s degree in teaching with a specialty in Secondary Spanish and a master’s degree in educational technology. She is a university admissions consultant with her own company. Maggie has lived in Spain, the USA and Uruguay and is fluent in Spanish and English. She also enjoys travel, tourism and “anything related to education”.

Eleonora Alberti is an Argentine mezzosoprano with a doctorate degree in Musicology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Her specialty is the Jewish Spanish oral tradition and song. She has lived in France, Spain and the US and speaks French, German, Italian and English. Her pastimes include dancing, knitting and painting.

Marion Mahler Martin, of British nationality, studied at the Universitaire de Nancy” (France) and the “Escuela de Instrumentación Quirurgica-Hospital Argerich” in the city of Buenos Aires. She is a permanent resident of Argentina and has lived in Chile, Cuba, England and Switzerland. Marion speaks Spanish, English, French and German and her interests include classical music, art, golf and tennis.

Dr. Ulrike Lamle, an otorhinolaryngologist specializing in cleft lip and palate surgery, studied at the University of Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen, Germany. For the past 20 years she has worked as a volunteer surgeon for children with cleft lip and palate in underdeveloped countries all over the world. She has lived in Rwanda, Indonesia, the USA, Peru, China and Saudi Arabia and speaks German, English, Spanish and French.

A graduate of Devry University in Irving, TX (USA), Janice has a BS degree in Business Administration Operations Management. Working in Entrepreneurship and Start Ups, between 1999 and 2022 she built her own distributorship of electronic components. Janice moved to Argentina in 2022 and plans to make it her home. Her interests include travelling, the arts and people.