Kathryn Crisell

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Cholly Winter

Cholly migrated in South Australia in 1976.  She was born in Manila, Philippines. She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, the highest pontifical and oldest university in the Philippines with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Business Administration major in management and minor in sociology. She also holds an Associate Degree in Secretarial Science.

Her working years started from being a secretary, administrative, personal and executive assistant, to becoming a community worker and a business entrepreneur.  Her passion is community and she had been working as a volunteer for her own Filipino community since 1977 and in 1998 became involved with the multicultural communities by joining the Multicultural SA Volunteer Migrant Information Officer Network. She works presently on a part-time basis as a community educator/caseworker with PEACE Multicultural Services of Relationship Australia and holds positions as a member of the Board of Multicultural Aged Care, Secretary of  the Filipino Settlement Coordinating Council of SA, Chairperson of the Filipino Aged Care of SA and Booking Officer for the Senior Peer Education Centre of COTA Seniors Voice.

She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, underwent surgery for lumpectomy, had clinical trial drugs chemotherapy for six months and six weeks of radiotherapy. In 2002 got involved with Cancer Council SA as a Cancer Connect Volunteer to help and give support and information to CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities) about what services are there for them to take. She joined Cancer Voices SA as a consumer since its inception in 2006 through a survey conducted by CVSA.  Last year, in September 2008 she attended a Consumer Research Training Course in Sydney for 2 days and this paved way to her being successfully selected to sit as a member of the National Research Advisory Group for Cancer Australia.