Meet our team.
We are the team behind the Street Smart Slovak podcast, and are dedicated to making the process of learning Slovak enjoyable, engaging and accessible to students around the world. We strive to create a fun and effective learning experience, bridging cultures and bringing Slovak to life in a practical, conversational way.
Martina Hlavata
Martina is an experienced language tutor from Bratislava, and native Slovak speaker. She’s here to help you speak and understand Slovak as it’s really spoken. Her goal is to build a meaningful connection—both with the language and with each other. There’s nothing she enjoys more than seeing her students’ faces light up with each small achievement on their journey.
Joe Kachurik
Founder & CEO
Joe is a technologist, artist, and student, currently living in the United States. He provides insights into the language from the student’s point of view. He’ll share his own learning experiences, and some of challenges he has faced as an English-speaking student. He’ll also try to pass along a few tips, tricks and tools to help others overcome some of the challenges we all face as Slovak language students.
Contributor
Maria Sanchez Sullivan
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Design
Benjamin Tutor
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Content Creation
Olivia Marshall
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Contributor
Design Director
Former co-founder of ACME company. Early staff at XYZ. Loves coffee & morning runs.