Yvonne is a retired teacher with extensive specialized experience as an educator, working with visiting schools at Sovereign Hill Goldmining Township and the Art Gallery of Ballarat over the past 22 years. She has written several storybooks for children and conducted Book Week sessions in Ballarat regional schools over recent years. Following the completion of a PhD researching her own family's Ballarat Chinese connections, she has written the biographical account Chinese Roots of the Tong Way family from the first goldfield immigrant in 1882 to the 1950s.
