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Weronika Elantkowska

Events and digital coordinator

@weroelantkowska

Weronika – ‘Ronnie’ to the team – is originally from Poznan, Poland, and if you were to meet her in person, she could shoot the breeze with you in any of five languages. Because’s digi offerings during lockdown), she speaks Spanish, German, English, Polish and Greek. In her home country, she did a Masters in Linguistics, then a postgrad diploma in Communication/PR at AUT in Auckland. She came to New Zealand with her Costa Rican husband Andres (they met in Italy). “Although I miss my family, friends, food and snow, we call New Zealand home now,” she says. “I love Mexican and Italian cuisine and of course Polish too; pierogi (dumplings) and barszcz (borscht) are my favourites.”