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Columnist Donna Brond
Donna Brond
Donna Brond was raised on a farm in Tolmie, in Victoria's High Country. After a disrupted high school education, she attended La Trobe University in Bendigo, studying Chinese, Classical Greek, and philosophy, leaving with a B. Teaching and B. Ed in 2005, after putting herself through University with a variety of jobs, including cleaning, tutoring, and food retail. Disillusioned with teaching, she currently works for Gouge Country Services, one of Central Victoria's biggest industrial laundries, and for Target Australia.
She has previously worked for La Trobe University as a coordinator for their Orientation Week Programme, and in a voluntary capacity as an Open Day Guide and Orientation Week Leader.
While holding no professional qualification in finance, she has a hands-on approach to solving financial problems, and an insider's understanding of how stores manipulate consumers. With a focus on problems faced by lower income earners, she provides strategies and advice that consumers can use to manage their money. Determined to be different, she has read widely on the subject of personal finance, and while holding no finance qualification, seeks to meet people at their level, in plain English, on common financial problems.
Based in Shepparton, in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, she still volunteers as a tutor and also provides practical assistance to new migrants who are seeking employment. When not answering personal finance questions on Yahoo!7 Answers, or working in her immense vegetable garden, she is prospecting in Victoria's goldfields. She lives in South Shepparton with her partner and hopes to have her first house paid off within five years.
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