The Team
Robin van Eck
Executive Director, Programing Support, Events, Marketing & Communications, Community Engagement & Collaborations
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Kim Firmston
Program Director - Youth Clubs/Education & Tutoring Support
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Precious de leon
Office/Programming Support, Events, Marketing & Communications
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Robin has been with the AWCS in various capacities since 2003. First as a member learning to write, as a board member for several years, as office personnel and eventually, when there was more team to manage, Executive Director.
Robin is a writer like everyone else with several short stories and personal essays published. Her first novel, Rough, came out in November 2020. |
Kim is a published writer of YA novels, short stories, and articles, and has plays produced worldwide. She is a writing mentor and instructor for the AWCS, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Alexandra Centre Society’s DramAntics Theatre camp. Kim specializes in collaboration projects with people of all ages.
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Precious is a poet and speculative fiction writer. She writes through the lens of a Filipino Canadian settler in Mohkintsis/Calgary. Following her stint as a business journalist and editor in the Middle East, her creative writing journey started with the 2019 Borderlines Writers Circle Calgary (now Own Voices Alberta), a program she now works on with the AWCS team since she joined in 2020.
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