Aimee Polonsky

Title: O Ambassadors International Trips Coordinator
Interesting Fact: Aimee’s first volunteer experience involved squeezing penguins between her knees and massaging their throats.

A graduate of York University, with a bachelor of education degree and an honours bachelor of arts in global education and international development, Aimee Polonsky joined the Leaders Today team in 2007 as the O Ambassadors international trips coordinator. She is thrilled to be assisting young people in their learning by guiding them through their travels around the world.
 
Aimee’s first taste of charitable work came in 1994, when she volunteered with a rescue effort in her home country of South Africa to save penguins from a devastating oil spill. She has been volunteering ever since. Aimee is also an avid traveller and has lived and worked all over the world. After graduating high school, she spent a year teaching English in Taichung, Taiwan. While in Asia, Aimee backpacked through Cambodia and Laos before settling with a family belonging to the Akha tribe in the northern mountainous region of Chiang Rai, Thailand. She also lived in the West Indies, on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, and in Israel’s Negev desert region, where she worked in an orchard picking lemons. She has also travelled extensively here in Canada, including a trip to British Columbia, where she hiked 77 kilometres along the West Coast Trail.

Aimee is now learning Hebrew and can already read and write the entire alphabet. She loves to read any book she can get her hands on, although her favourite is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Aimee lets love and intelligence guide her through each day and, as philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti professes through his teachings, believes that one is not separate from the other.