Bachelor’s in Translation English / Spanish (ILMH), I achieved my Master’s Degree in Journalism (ULB), I worked as a social interpreter for SISBA for a year as well as a translator for associations, as well as radio chroniquer. In 2011, I finished a special Dissertation (My Dissertation was on Racial Issues : From MLK Jr to Barack Obama, which filiation on Race?) ended with A+++ and asked if I wanted to do research. My multicultural background and interest in Diversity and big speeches had been the first step. This was an amazing opportunity but I said I prefer working with people for now.
From November 2011, worked in several schools in Social Promotion with adults, teaching Spanish and French, English and French, English and Spanish, French, then English only. In the mean time, I studied a teaching Diploma for Belgium. Theses courses gave me a good insight in Pedagogy, SociopPedagogy of Teaching, Legislation of Teaching, Communication linked with Teaching Teens, etc.
At the week-end or on holiday, I was able to publish free-lance articles in the investigation magazine, Casa, of the House of Latin America. The starting point was accessing to a dream: traveling to Central America (Guatemala), then reading documentation, interviewing interlocutors and taking pictures. I became a member of the Writing Comittee of the HOuse of Latin America, assisting to writing meetings.
In 2017, I started writing articles on Feminist Issues for ROSA ASBL. In 2018, I worked with kids again with Kiddy Junior Classes as an animator, then as a teacher of French, Maths and Reading in Etterbeek in a homework school. I also finished the second year of Training in Teaching, while working in a Secondary School in Ixelles and doing an internship.
That summer, on vacation, I realised that Interviewing, Writing and Photographing was much more pleasurable to me than teaching. I decided I would not teach teens anymore but only motivated audiences, preferably in private. I decided to finally withdraw the writings out of the drawers and get back to my childhood and teenager passion, writing. In August, I assisted a Writing Workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, the second one, after another in Cook and Book with André Cession. In September, I enrolled in Photography at the Agnès Varda Institute in Molenbeek. I had followed several trainings in Photography with the association Contrast and the shop Studio Francine.
Laura Hershkowitz 