Editor for Love Across Cultures

The editor for this issue is Karina Holm Gabrielyan, a new member of SIETAR Europa and the driving force behind this Magazine.

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Karina describes herself as follows:

I was born in USSR (Ukraine) in 1977. My Mother is Russian / Ukrainian and my father is Armenian, so I am a child of intercultural marriage.

I graduated from the Luhansk State Pedagogical University. I am a teacher of English, Russian and World literature / school counselor and translator. I worked for a year in Ukraine teaching English before moving to Denmark in 1999 to study, where I lived till 2004.

My MA is in Culture, Communication, Globalization / English gained from Aalborg University.

While studying in Denmark, I also worked as an Area Sales Manager at an international company, where I was responsible for Sales to the Eastern European markets.

Since July 2004 I have lived in Bonn where I teach languages, run communications workshops, do translations and work on project coordination.

Apart from all this I did some extensive traveling around Europe and the USA (I spent a year there) and would like to continue to explore our world. I am fascinated about diversity of life and enjoy all kinds of 'interculturalism' which is not only limited to interethnic encounters in my understanding.

I speak three languages in my daily life: German, English, Russian. Sometimes by the end of the day I can't speak any! but then it's good we still have non-verbal communication left to express some of our basic thoughts and ideas!