Gurinder is a practicing Sikh and was born in northern state of India, called Punjab. She is an IT professional and migrated to Australia in 2006. Gurinder has worked with Telstra, Department of Immigration and now working as Business Analyst with Australian Taxation Office.

Gurinder is involved with a number of community projects including turban awareness within schools and workplaces. She is the president of Sikh Community Connections, a non-for-profit organisation.

In 2019, Gurinder won the Westfield Local Heroes Award for Plenty Valley. Gurinder has been involved in the Whittlesea Interfaith Network since 2016.

Tanja Kubitza has been involved in interfaith dialogue for many years, both in Germany and Australia. She is the former Chair of Membership of JCMA (Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia) and has attended various interfaith conferences and retreats before joining the Whittlesea Interfaith Network in late 2016. As an ongoing member of Benevolence Australia, she is supporting the organisation as Coordinator for their Northern Hub. Tanja deeply appreciates the importance of WIN in building bridges and connecting members from all faith belongings.

Currently working as Content & Relations Lead at Al Siraat College, Tanja has been an active member of the school community since 2010. She is an advocate for childhood cancer awareness and has been fundraising for this cause for the past decade. In her spare time, Tanja is an avid reader, cat lover, hobby photographer and enjoys mountain biking and nature.

Glenys has been a practising Christian, in the Anglican tradition, her whole life. She was a Primary School teacher for about 10 years, before further study, and moving into the field of Special Education, where she worked for more than 25 years. During all this time she was also involved in Christian Education for children. Glenys assisted in writing the program for the State Schools Christian Education program and lessons, which was used from 1974 until the late1990’s. In retirement, Glenys worked as a volunteer, teaching Christian Education in a number of schools. She continues to run “Messy Church”, which is a less formal Christian Education for children, in her Parish Church of St Peter’s Anglican Church, Bundoora. Glenys has been involved in the Whittlesea Interfaith Network since 2007 and has been Secretary since 2008.

Farzaneh is a dedicated woman who made herself available to many different services and working tirelessly, spending endless hours in an effort to reach the most successful result for many years.
Farzaneh has received “Victoria’s Multicultural Excellence Award” by the Governor of Victoria, and the Premier, twice, in 2009 and 2010.

She also has received International Women’s Day Award in Whittlesea in 2010.

She is an active member of several organisations & committees, including
Community Leadership Network in Victoria (CLNV), Northern Intercultural
Interfaith Network (NIIN), Whittlesea Multicultural Council Committee (WMCC), Cultural Bridges, Whittlesea Interfaith Network (WIN), as well as Victorian Immigrant Refugee Women’s Coalition .

Dr Sarvesh Soni, Research Scientist at RMIT University Melbourne
Studied at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India