Linda Agerbak, a teacher and journalist, lived and worked for
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35 years on four continents. After studying for a year abroad in Berlin, she married a European and moved to West Africa. She was a houseparent at an international boarding school in Wales and taught English to Vietnamese refugees in Malaysia. She traveled to Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Australia, Japan & South Korea. Returning to the UK, she worked at Oxford University Press and at Oxfam. After a difficult two years in Lebanon, she returned to the US & worked as a landscape gardener for clients in Monterey, California. In 2014 she moved to live with family in Boston. Linda most recently taught ‘World’s Greatest Rivers: The Mississippi & the Colorado’ and ‘World’s Greatest Rivers:The Nile, the Tigris, & Euphrates’ at Tufts OLLI.
Jeremiah Anthony is the Research Coordinator for One Earth
Future, where he studies how to get countries to talk better to one another. His main areas of focus is improving relations between the US and China, US and Venezuela, and Indonesia and Timor Leste. He is a 2021 graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he focused on memory politics (genocide studies) and conflict resolution. Jeremiah most recently taught ‘The Remembrance of Tragedies’ at Tufts OLLI.
Anna Arazi is a Boston-based Russian-Israeli classical pianist
and educator who enthusiastically advocates for contemporary and rarely performed music by female composers. Anna has premiered dozens of solo and chamber works by American, British, Israeli and Russian composers, including Ketty Nez, Vera Ivanova, Talia Amar and Angela Slater. Her performance credits include the Bell’Arte festival in Belgium, Paine Hall at Harvard University, the Mishkenot Sha’ananimCenter in Jerusalem, and Weill Recital Hall in NYC. Anna works with advanced students in her private studio and serves as a collaborative pianist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Anna is an affiliated artist at MIT and the current president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the World Piano Teachers Association. Anna most recently taught ‘Fear of the Unknow: New Classical Music’ at Tufts OLLI.
Petra Bittner is a literature and language instructor who holds
degrees in English literature (Ph.D.) and teaching German as a second language (MA/Staatsexamen). She lived in Boston from 1998 to 2007, teaching language, literature and cultural studies classes for
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