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Born in Kuwait to a Canadian mother of German-Polish decent and a Serbian father, I often feel I was born into a cross-cultural experiment. Reared with a mouth full of languages and surrounded by diverse cultures and customs, I learned to be open-minded, tolerant and flexible. These characteristics were further fostered when the Gulf War ignited and my family fled the Middle East. As a child, I was deeply conflicted by the images of violence associated with my mixed heritage- from the flaming petroleum pipelines of ‘Desert Storm’ blazing across all television news channels, to the brutality exposed with the deterioration of former-Yugoslavia and atrocities committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I watched first-hand as an endless procession of refugees snaked along the rural Serbian highways dragging the remains of their lives. These sights had an enormous impact on my pliable worldview and my sense of security, conjuring up an unstoppable drive for justice.

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