Editorial Team

EDI­TOR: Eleanor Yap

Eleanor has over 20 years’ edi­to­r­ial expe­ri­ence, hav­ing worked for con­sumer and trade mag­a­zines, both in the US and Sin­ga­pore. She was also a stringer at The Philadel­phia Inquirer, while still a stu­dent at Tem­ple Uni­ver­sity. Return­ing to Asia, she is an advo­cate for seniors and active age­ing, hav­ing worked for a seniors’ mag­a­zine, found­ing two seniors’ mag­a­zines and in 2009, start­ing her own seniors’ free e-​magazine called Agelessonline.

Her involve­ment in the non-​profit sec­tor is not some­thing new. She was the pub­li­ca­tions direc­tor for Camp Sunshine’s mag­a­zine for three years and is cur­rently the edi­tor of Humane­ity Mag­a­zine, a pub­li­ca­tion that high­lights vol­un­teer­ing, NGO/​NPOs, CSR and phil­an­thropy globally.

“My wish is we can have a more car­ing soci­ety where it is not just about giv­ing money to those in need but also extend­ing a warm hand of kind­ness such as mak­ing sure some­one is okay if he has fallen or help­ing a mother with her baby pram when get­ting on a bus. It is about car­ing about the com­mu­nity we live in and the peo­ple who live in it.”

Behind SALT Online, we have an amaz­ing crew of vol­un­teers who have pitched in to sup­port us, and help write and edit the sto­ries. Here they are:

VOL­UN­TEERS:

Nicole Nasser

Nicole has a wide range of mar­ket­ing, strat­egy, pol­icy and writ­ing expe­ri­ence in both the pri­vate and non-​profit sec­tors. For the last sev­eral years, she has pro­vided capac­ity build­ing ser­vices to social enter­prises and non-​profit organ­i­sa­tions includ­ing those focused on men­tal health, edu­ca­tion, and youth/​child devel­op­ment issues as well as the arts. Prior to her capac­ity build­ing work, she co-​authored best prac­tice guides on energy effi­ciency and water con­ser­va­tion, and devel­oped other statewide edu­ca­tional mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives to help indi­vid­u­als and busi­nesses in the State of Cal­i­for­nia (US) reduce their energy and water use. She holds an MBA from UCLA Ander­son School of Man­age­ment with a con­cen­tra­tion in sus­tain­abil­ity leadership.“I am con­stantly in awe of and inspired by the mil­lions of peo­ple across the globe who are work­ing tire­lessly to make the world a bet­ter place, from trans­form­ing an aban­doned park­ing lot into a neigh­bour­hood park to mount­ing an inter­na­tional advo­cacy effort aimed at stop­ping human traf­fick­ing. We are all con­nected, and the more we con­sider how our actions effect oth­ers, the bet­ter our own lives – and the lives of our chil­dren – will be.”

Anita Devasa­hayam

Anita is a for­mer journalist-​turned-​media trainer with an inter­est in social media communications. She is an excep­tional com­mu­ni­ca­tor with a proven track record to exe­cute and deliver tar­gets and strate­gies to sup­port man­age­ment goals. In addi­tion to con­duct­ing cor­po­rate train­ing work­shops with her part­ner, Anita lec­tures part-​time at Taylor’s Uni­ver­sity Col­lege and writes book reviews for a par­ent­ing site. She holds a MA in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Man­age­ment from the Uni­ver­sity of South Aus­tralia. When­ever pos­si­ble, she drags her two teens to the church-​run soup kitchen to help out.

“My par­ents taught me to reach out with a help­ing hand and for that we have received much as a fam­ily. The chain of good­ness must con­tinue and to do that, we need to give back in what­ever way pos­si­ble, no mat­ter how small. By reach­ing out, we can make a dif­fer­ence and spread the love.”

Can­dice Neo

Can­dice is an under­grad­u­ate at the Wee Kim Wee School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Infor­ma­tion in Nanyang Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­sity. Spe­cial­is­ing in jour­nal­ism, she has expe­ri­ence in report­ing for both print and broad­cast, and also over­seas and in Sin­ga­pore. She has reported for the 2011 Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions and var­i­ous other events for her cam­pus newslet­ter and TV chan­nel, and she has also writ­ten for the “Young Olympian Daily”, the Youth Olympics newslet­ter in 2010.

She has started vol­un­teer­ing since her sec­ondary school days and has worked with under­priv­i­leged chil­dren, the elderly and hos­pi­talised patients. With a pas­sion in human­i­tar­ian issues, Can­dice hopes to present sto­ries of the under­priv­i­leged and the suf­fer­ing on plat­forms that can raise aware­ness and gar­ner sup­port for the var­i­ous needy com­mu­ni­ties. “Even if it is just a small dif­fer­ence, just improv­ing the life of one per­son – that is already enough.”