AVI FOUNDER & CO-MANAGER
Indigo Willing
Researcher, Writer, Community Volunteer. Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM). PhD in Sociology, University of Queensland, Australia. Former Rockefeller Fellow, UMASS, Boston, USA.
AVI Founder (also co-founder and co-convener of the Asian Australian Film Forum and Network)
Also search Linkedin & Google Scholar / Past Fundraising
AVI CO-MANAGER
Robert ‘Bert’ Ballard
PhD, Academic at Uni.of Waterloo, Ontario – Canada. (Now Professor at Pepperdine Uni., California). Editor of ‘Pieces of Me’ book, Co-author – Adopted the Comic, Chair – Stratford Intercountry Adoption Summit ’10.
Pepperdine Bio / Pieces of Me (for Teen Adoptees)
AVI CHIEF WEB DESIGNER
Jessica Emmett
Freelance Illustrator & Artist – UK
AVI Website Designer & Advisory Network Member, Creator & Illustrator of Adopted the Comic
AVI Bio / AVI 35th Reflections / Adopted the Comic Website / Art Portfolio Website
AVI ADVISORY NETWORK
The below people have at various stages been pivotal in assisting AVI to develop content, moderate forums, and from time to time provide advice on special topics. AVI is a volunteer project with a website providing some information and a social network group and page, but does not have formal representatives or formal services. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
in alphabetical order
David Fisk
USA
AVI E Group and Facebook Group Chief Co-Moderator.
IT Professional
Jen Fitzpatrick
Co-Founder of IAC Group, Adoptee National Representative 2011 for NICAAG, Former Adoption Officer with Adoption Services Queensland, Operation Babylift, TTAF Initiative Committee (Brisbane)
AVI Bio / Jen’s Story (Youtube) / AVI 35th Reflections
Ty ‘Phoon’ Gaston
Australian
Operation Babylift and Admin Team Member
AVI Bio
Trista Goldberg
USA
Founder/Director of Operation Reunite and DNA Register project.
AVI Bio / AVI 35th Reflections / AVI Reunited / Operation Reunite Website
Dominic Golding
Australia – Artist, Theatre Performer & Playwright. Screenplay and lead performance of ‘Shrimp’. Touring Transcultural Adoptee Films (TTAF) Initiative Committee (Melbourne Event Organiser)
Being Vietnamese AVI / Shrimp Play Website / TTAF Melbourne
T. Houston
Teacher & Writer – USA
Committee Member of Operation Reunite Return to Vietnam 2010 Trip
AVI Bio / Vietnamese Adoptees Blog
Anh Ðào Kolbe
Photographer & Community Activist – USA
Committee Member of Operation Reunite & Photographer of Portraits of Vietnamese Adoptees series
AVI Bio / Portrait Series Website / Anh Ðào website
Patrick L
Germany
AVI Advisory Committee
AVI Bio / AVI 35th Reflections
AVI MEDIA & PR ADVICE
Analee Matthews
Journalist & Editor for Fitness First magazine- Sydney, NSW Australia
AVI Bio