Leonardo Rocker

Leonardo Rocker is the Director of the Quirky Kid Clinic and Publishing House as well as a Youth Mentor.

He has a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing) and a Master of International Social Development from the  University of New South Wales (UNSW). Leonardo is a member of The Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS) and of The Youth Action and Policy Association NSW (YAPA).

Leonardo has extensive international experience in commercial business and having worked in Boston (USA) and Mexico during his 3 year role with Volkswagen/Audi. He is an experienced Quality Analyst with particular skills in trouble-shooting complex problems.

Leonardo co-founded The School Days Project in 2004 as a Photographer and Social Researcher. He traveled to more than 25 countries conducting a project on School Culture involving thousands of school students. He was awarded a scholarship to attend and present at the Young Social Entrepreneur Forum in Malasya (2008) and The School Days project was also published as an educational book by Amayra Publishing (Brazil).

Leonardo recently represented the Quirky Kid Publishing House at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany and successfully promoted a range of new educational resources to a global audience.

Leonardo is currently offering consultancy to STARTTS (Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors) as a member of the Communities in Cultural Transition Project (CiCTP) panel which aims to assist non-funded associations and groups from newly arrived small and emerging refugee communities like the Mandaean, Karen, Hazara, Sierra Leonean, Liberian, South Sudanese, Burundian and Congolese, to develop governance and leadership capacity.

During November  2010 Leonardo completed  an Internship in New Delhi, India with the Centre for Refugee Research (CRR). There he developed community development strategies with refugees form Burma, Somalia and Afghanistan as well as participating in the UNHCR dialogue with women and girls.

As a Youth Mentor he is particularly experienced in working with young, high needs clients on a long-term basis.

Email Leonardo at: leo.rocker@quirkykid.com.au

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Certificate for child-related employment: C 87426/12/06/2009