Ms. Rhonda Schiffler studied at Sydney University and earned a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Pure Mathematics & Philosophy. She studied Computer Science in her second year when computers took up the entire length of the Physics building and needed a very controlled environment! Students were not allowed near it. Programs were submitted via punched cards way back in 1974! At the end of that year, the first VDU type screens were introduced. After working as a programmer for 6 months and traveling for 6 months, She returned to complete a postgraduate qualification to become a preschool teacher. She received the Diploma of Early Childhood Education in 1977 and worked as a teacher and director of various kindergartens until 1981. Rhonda completed Pam Cayton's course on Creating Compassionate Cultures at Vajrayana Institute in Sydney.  Rhonda also received the Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training certificate taught by Dr. B. Alan Wallace & Dr. Eve Ekman, which she completed on Holy Isle in Scotland in 2014—the following year, she facilitated the course in Australia again led by Drs Wallace and Ekman.  Since 2008 to the present day, Rhonda has been following the path of the Buddha/Dharma with teachings, pilgrimages, and retreats of various durations. Inspired by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and her heart teacher Dr B. Alan Wallace. 
 

Anisio Martins dos Santos is the AP Spanish and German Teacher, as well as the Chair of the Foreign Languages Department at Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology (GSMST), a top 10 STEM school in the United States. Since joining GSMST in August 2016, Anisio has worked with the school’s highly talented student body and faculty to promote language learning in a STEM-driven environment. He previously taught for 13 years at the university level within the University System of Georgia. Originally from Brazil, Anisio lived in India during the 1990s while working for a German engineering firm, and later studied at the Universität Paderborn in Germany, where he lived for eight years before moving to the U.S. in 2003.