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Board members Self Introduction

Stefan Hoffmann - Vice Chair

My name is Stefan Hoffmann, I am 33 and from Cologne / Germany. Currently I am living in Beijing / China, where I'm working for a German car manufacturer. I joined the Stuttering Self-Help Movement in 1991 in Cologne and found with it the help, which speech therapy in the years before could not give me. As I always was interested in foreign countries and languages, I became involved with ISA in 1998, when I attended the World Congress for People Who Stutter in Johannesburg / South Africa. Since then I work on the ISA Board, mainly dealing with "Outreach" to countries where the public is still not aware of the stuttering problem and of ISA. Targeted regions are especially East Asia and Latin America.

Jaan Pill is an elementary school teacher in Mississauga, Canada. He is founder of the Stuttering Association of Toronto (1988), and a co-founder of the Canadian Association for People Who Stutter (1991) and the International Stuttering Association (1995).

Mark Irwin is a dentist in private practice in Adelaide, Australia. He is a past president of the Australian Speak Easy Association (1995 -1997) and has been a board member of the ISA since 1998. He currently serves as ISA
chairman.

Benny Ravid is a software engineer. He is the chair and founder of AMBI, the Israel Stuttering Association. He is also ISA board member , head of the webmaster group of the ISA website and webmaster of AMBI website .

Martine De Vloed is an employee at a company in Ghent, Belgium. She is a
co-founder and the past vice chair of the Belgian Stuttering Association, vzw BEST. She is also the past vice chair of the ISA (1998-2001) and is currently an ISA board member.

Mel Hoffman: Retired. Certified Public Accountant. Formerly director of taxes at Ampex Corporation. Member of the board of directors of the National Stuttering Association from 1983-1994, serving some of these years as either secretary or treasurer. Member of the ISA management committee, 1995-1998. Member of the ISA board of directors, 1998-2001, also serving as treasurer. Continuing as ISA treasurer until about December 31, 2001.

Thomas Krall is a teacher of mathematics, sports and music at a comprehensive school. He is currently on a sabbatical. Chair of a stuttering self-help group in Duesseldorf, Germany, 1989-1991. Chair of the German stuttering association, 1992-1993. Member of ISA management committee,1995-1998. Chair of ISA board of directors, 1998-2001.

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