Anna Matussek is a development worker, who is currently living in Hanoi, Vietnam, working on Civil Society and Good Local Governance projects. She recently wrote a ‘Gender-sensitive Project Planning’ manual for their Vietnamese Partner organizations and is collaborating on a project to extend the domestic violence shelter system in Vietnam. With an academic background in Gender and Development Studies, she also briefly worked for Time Out magazine in London and holds a regular story-telling event called ‘PenTales’ in Hanoi. Her interests range from feminist interpretations of pop culture to 80s power ballads, karaoke, disco dancing and photography.