Previous Board Members
2019 (winter -spring) Board Members
Janine grew up in Switzerland and South Africa. She earned a degree in Marketing from AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand and worked on many exciting projects within the marketing and communication fields. Janine launched her career as part of the marketing team for the New Zealand Olympic team competing in London 2012. She moved to Norway in 2015 and currently works with marketing in the hospitality industry and serves as a board member of the South African Society in Norway.
Janine thinks she is related to Roger Federer.
Leeanne was born in the UK and grew up in the US. She studied English and Psychology at Oakwood University, in Alabama USA. After university she moved back to the UK were she worked in the arts sector. While working as Marketing & Press Officer at The Drum Arts Centre, she fell in love with a Norwegian theatre director. Once she visited Oslo it was easy to convince her to move. They’ve been married since 2015. Leeanne splits her time between freelance writing and sitting on the board for Oslo International Rumi Festival.
Leeanne has lived in two cities both named Birmingham, but she never pronounces them the same way.
Margot was raised on apples and Camembert among the orchards of the French Normandy. As a young adult, she simultaneously studied the quality of the snow near Grenoble and the required subjects to become a bio-medical engineer. Then she was hit by wanderlust and moved to Australia, then to Germany, Norway, Belgium and her heart brought her back to Oslo again. Now working for a big company that develops medical imaging devices, she was seduced by the oslo soup concept.
Margot’s favorite animals are penguins.
Nikki grew up on Texel, the most beautiful island of the Netherlands (her words). As a child Nikki was always outside, on the trampoline, swimming or building fires in the garden. After high school it was time to leave the island, so she went backpacking for 7 months in Australia and New Zealand. The exploring did not stop when she started studying, an internship in Malaysia followed by a semester in Prague (where she met her Norwegian boyfriend).
After finishing her master’s in Strategic Management she moved to Oslo and became an oslo soup volunteer within the first two weeks. Nikki officially joined the board in January of 2019.
You can wake Nikki up anytime for noodles.
Tara was born in the United States and grew up outside of Washington, DC in the state of Maryland. She studied Sociology and French at Mount Saint Mary’s University and received a Masters degree in Public Anthropology at American University. Tara started her career as a juvenile residential counselor. For the past ten years, she worked for the US Federal Government supporting disaster relief efforts and small business development. She relocated to Norway to experience a different culture with her family and now works in the public health sector.
Tara attended L’Academie de Cuisine and her croissants are trés bons.
Read about the previous board member line up of oslo soup here.!