SMITE+Taskforce+leaders

Ms Eva de Struction
Eva has been working at S.M.I.T.E. as a Leader for five years and has led a number of complex investigations. Her background is as an alternative film maker and digital story teller with a keen interest in history, especially political history. Eva focues on the spread of democracy and the rise of people power. She is particularly interested in the links between the environment and politics and how the climate change agenda is shaping politics around the globe.

She is playful yet highly skilled technician who explores the potential of technology for communicating powerful and whimsical ideas. She is also very aware of the limitations of technology and has written several highly influential papers on these limitations for the Australian government. When time allows, Eva conducts professional development for teachers.

Eva attracts people with her sunny disposition, infectious laugh and innovative ideas. As a young child, Eva came to Australia with her parents from a small village in the French Alps near Val D'Isere. She has lived in Melbourne for over 30 years but has travelled extensively especially through Australia, which is the country she loves most of all. She has become a devoted fan of Australian Rules football and can be found in front of the television most Friday nights watching the big game. She gets to a few matches each season where she is enthralled by the antics of the crowd as much as the match itself.

**Dr Theresa Green**
Theresa has recently joined S.M.I.T.E after returning to Australia after a significant period studying and working abroad. An environmental activist, writer and researcher - her most recent study has been on the recycling of waste materials into useful industrial, household and tourist market items in South East Asia. Theresa has a keen interest in studying and supporting initiatives that leave a lighter mark on the planet and give purpose and work to communities living in poverty. Theresa's latest passion project is her campaign to stop the gruesome carnage left by domestic cats. She is passionate about ridding Australia of these cruel creatures Theresa relishes the opportunity to study and write however her life has taken her in many different directions; playing trombone in a circus in Turkey, cleaning fis h bags on the banks of the Mekong and selling windfall fruit on a Greek Island to name but a few. Those who believe her history tells the story of a carefree woman, have not met the fierce activist who has a serious commitment to making change in the world. Her motto is: ** Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. **

Theresa has a serious caffeine addiction and is constantly in search of the fairest trade coffee that kicks the biggest punch. She is currently building a carbon neutral tree house in Gippsland where she can raise her growing family. Most weekends see Theresa hiking in the wilderness with nothing but her trusty boots, her trangia and a chain which comes in handy if she happens across logging bulldozers she feels compelled to chain herself to.