About Us
Environmental Education in Early Childhood (EEEC) is a non-profit organisation, established in 1992, that provides support, resources and professional development in relation to Education for Sustainability in the Early Years.
EEEC is run by a committed and passionate volunteer committee of management that actively strive to promote and advocate for education for sustainability across all areas of curriculum and educator professional development.
Our Vision
2025 Committee of Management
Meetings: The Committee of Management meets online bi-monthly . All members if EEEC Association are welcome to attend and become involved. For information regarding details please contact info@eeec.org.au.
Stephanie Willey
Convenor
Stephanie is the Coordinator/Bush Kinder Teacher at Yarralea Children’s Centre in Melbourne and long-standing committee member of EEEC. Over the last 25 years she has worked in a variety of public and private Early Childhood settings both in Australia and overseas and is passionate about embedding Education for Sustainability into daily practice and advocating for children’s right to access rich natural outdoor play spaces for healthy development and wellbeing.
Bronwyn Joslyn
Treasurer
Bron is a long-standing EEEC committee member and Professional Development Facilitator. She is passionate about sustainability and critically reflecting with professionals on the value of authentic outdoor play for children with a connection to place. She is the Director at Diamond Creek Memorial Kindergarten and in collaboration with the kindergarten’s community (families, children and educators), is exploring children as visible environmentally conscious citizens within the local community.
Tracy Young
SECRETARY
Tracy Charlotte Young is a lecturer-researcher at Southern Cross University, Australia sustained by a commitment to animal rights activism and ecological justice. Her transdisciplinary research embraces the complex interrelationships of ecologies, education, early childhood, human-animal studies and cultural geographies. Her work considers modes of attention such as embodied knowledge and more-than-human relational ways of being and knowing.
General Members: who will be involved with such things as communication and publications, conference coordination, social media management, professional development and centre visit facilitation.
Ann Smith
Ann has been a member of EEEC for over 25 years and a committee member for many of these. Ann is a retired kindergarten teacher and academic and besides being passionate about EEEC, loves bush walking, op shopping and volunteering in the community.
Aurora Ricci
Aurora is an early childhood professional with a Diploma in Sustainability from UTAS. Passionate about sustainability, nature-based learning, and community capacity building, she has travelled across Europe to deepen her understanding of nature and place-based pedagogy. Aurora has founded and chaired council networks for early childhood sustainability, contributed to early years steering groups in Regional Victoria, and played a key role in establishing bush kinder programs. She has also worked at CERES and developed workshops for early childhood educators and children’s art exhibitions. Aurora is dedicated to empowering communities, fostering connections, and placing children’s voices at the centre of environmental action and sustainable practices.
Jonny Isacsson
Jonny is part owner of Kids by the Bay Children’s Centre and Kindergarten in Williamstown and Hobsons Bay Farm (Kinder). Jonny is passionate about teaching and empowering farm kinder children to take care of the land upon which they live, learn and play. Fostering connections to the natural world, through caring for animals, tending gardens, composting and cooking lunch with the children using seasonal produce from the farm. Jonny has qualifications in early childhood teaching and previously completed a Master of Education. Jonny has worked in a variety of teaching and management roles within tertiary education. Besides managing Hobsons Bay Farm, and farm kinder Jonny facilitates professional development and learning for all the Kids by Bay teams, including the development of eLarning modules.
Katina Grammatoglou
Katina is an early childhood teacher and educational leader at PLC Early Learning Centre in Melbourne. Over the last 30 years she has worked in a number of settings in Melbourne and overseas and has an interest in creating habits for sustainable lifestyles that bring joy, health and wellbeing to all living systems in our world.
Drawing on her upbringing where nothing was wasted and everyday items were treasures to behold, she brings ‘aeforia’ the ancient Greek word for sustainability, meaning ‘to carry for ever’ to her work with children, colleagues, professionals and families. Her work is guided by thoughtful reflection on how we live our lives with children in our centres and by listening to the voices of children as agents and active citizens of the world they live in.
Iris Wan
Iris is a dedicated 4-year-old kinder teacher who recently joined EEEC. With a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, she has seamlessly integrated her passion for sustainability into early childhood education. Iris recognises the immense potential of young minds and believes that nature offers a wealth of benefits for children’s holistic growth and development.
Nadia Angelini
Nadia was drawn to EEEC after having attended the EEEC- Engage Empower Enact conference in 2009 which consolidated her journey and commitment to embedding Education for Sustainability in the early years and beyond. After attending many sustainable centre visits and workshops over the years, the opportunity arose to become a committee member. Nadia feels honoured to be involved in a not for profit organisation that has evolved over 30 years. She enjoys working with extraordinary members who share the same vision and dedication towards treading lightly on this planet and empowering children to be agents for change, so we and future generations can all share the wonder and magnificence of this planet and all it has to offer.