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Norton Tennille Director of Institutional Development, Fundraising and Financial Management Norton Tennille is the founder of SAEP and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. A former Rhodes Scholar, he practiced environmental and federal regulatory law in Washington, DC for twenty-five years before moving to Cape Town to establish SAEP in 1994. He is a native of Winston-Salem, NC and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. He was a founding Director of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham and served on the General Alumni Board of UNC: Chapel Hill. During his career as an environmental lawyer he received numerous awards from environmental organizations and headed the Balliol College Alumni Association in the United States.   Send Norton an email -- Norton@SAEP.org Luyanda Kota Manager: ADT Teach, Finances and Computers Luyanda Kota has recently been appointed by SAEP as a Manager for ADT Teach, Finances and Computers in August 2010. He worked in the NPO sector since 2004 where he joined IkamvaYouth as a volunteer. While at IkamvaYouth he took a role of a lab manager at the beginning of 2007. He was promoted to be IkamvaYouth Director for the Western Cape branches at the beginning of 2008, a position he retained until he joined SAEP.     Luyanda comes from an information technology and financial backgrounds through working for government, companies, educational institutions, other nonprofit organisations, and self employment.  He has a three-year National Diploma in Financial Information Systems from Cape Technikon that is now part of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He is now looking forward to his new appointment at SAEP and continues to be passionate about social development and living his intent of spreading happiness though making difference.  Patrick Collins Financial Manager and Office Manager Patrick Collins is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a B.S in Business Administration and graduated with Honors in Creative Writing. Before joining SAEP as a volunteer, he and his brother spent a year on the back of a municipal garbage truck in their home town of Marion, MA, in addition to running their own boat maintenance and landscaping service. As SAEP’s Financial and Office Manager, Patrick is responsible for all bookkeeping and budgeting, as well as maintaining the company’s vehicles, phone system, computer network, inventory, and office procedures.   Send Patrick an email -- Patrick@SAEP.org Laura Pugliese Fundraising and Institutional Development Laura Pugliese graduated from Georgetown University in 2008 with a BA in English and a BS in Anthropology. In South Africa, she has attended the University of Cape Town as an exchange student, worked on an education initiative for women in rural Limpopo, and most recently has joined the SAEP team to lend a hand with fundraising and institutional development. Additionally, Laura plans to help coordinate SAEP's Matric Success programme at Philippi High, and has begun teaching an English matric course to grade 12 students.   Send Laura an email -- Laura@SAEP.org

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