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Alanta Colley on Jane Goodall

  • June 19, 2018

Alanta has a Masters in International Public Health and has worked on health programs in Uganda, Kenya, Cambodia and East Timor, around HIV, Malaria, and nutrition.
She now works for Engineers Without Borders, taking engineering students to India, Samoa and Cambodia to learn in partnership with rural communities about Human Centred Design.
She is also a comedian, delivering her sell out show ‘Parasites Lost’ and ‘Days of our Hives’ at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She hates puns and the entire thing was excruciating.
She’s a mediocre urban farmer, growing mainly organic kale-fed caterpillars. She keeps bees, though admittedly they mainly keep themselves.

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