Jemima was formally diagnosed as being dyslexic when she was fifteen years old, but she has always been aware that she saw the world a little differently to most people. Her reading speed is slower than 98% of the population. Throughout her years of schooling she developed many learning strategies to work around her academic difficulties and hatred of reading.She was so successful in applying these strategies, that in 2017 Jemima achieved two perfect subject scores in VCE, was Dux of her school, was accepted to study Midwifery, and even won the school VCE English Academic Prize, even though she did not read the novels…well at least not with her eyes.Jemima has represented Victoria in Water Polo and was the Captain of the Victorian Schools’ Swimming Team. As a national level swimmer, she won a National Title in 2.5km Open Water Swimming and was awarded Open Water Swimmer of the Year by Swimming Victoria; the youngest recipient of the award. She loves the outdoors and recently completed a trek to the Base Camp of Mount Everest.