Meet The Team

Welcome to The Pyjama Foundation's Team! Our team is a diverse group hailing from all walks of life, united by a shared mission: to brighten and empower the lives of children and young individuals in out-of-home care. 

Welcome to The Pyjama Foundation's Team!

While we operate within a challenging and sometimes heart-wrenching sector, our primary focus is to bring hope and happiness into the lives that truly matter. At the heart of our efforts is the Love of Learning Program. Our central objective is clear: to elevate the educational and life trajectories of children and young people in foster care. We achieve this with the help of our amazing volunteer mentors who empower children and youth by honing their literacy and numeracy skills, while simultaneously providing them with essential emotional support.

National and Head Office

Bronwyn Sheenan OAM

CEO and Founder

Alison Gosper

General Manager

gm@thepyjamafoundation.com

Kirsten Austin

Head of Partnerships

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change." - Bob Kerrey • engagement@thepyjamafoundation.com

Kevin Gallard

Head of Curriculum & Training

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats • kevin@thepyjamafoundation.com

Tash Hodson

National Volunteer Manager

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" - Maya Angelou • natasha@thepyjamafoundation.com

Carina Fetiveau

Brand, Marketing & Campaigns Manager

"Let’s teach our daughters less about fitting into glass slippers and more about shattering glass ceilings." - Unknown • events@thepyjamafoundation.com

Lindsey Phillips

Teen Life Skills Coordinator

lindsey@thepyjamafoundation.com

Regional Queensland

Mel Green

Regional Support Manager

"I am not lost for I know where I am. However, where I am may be lost" - Winnie the Pooh • placement@thepyjamafoundation.com

Karen Smith

Darling Downs Coordinator

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - CS Lewis • toowoomba@thepyjamafoundation.com

Renee Didlick

Sunshine Coast Coordinator

"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect" Adam Osborne • sunshine@thepyjamafoundation.com

Stephanie Reardon

Gold Coast Coordinator

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book." Proust • stephanie@thepyjamafoundation.com

Andrew Hannay

North QLD Coordinator

"Give everyday the chance to become the most beautiful of your life" - Mark Twain. • townsville@thepyjamafoundation.com

Joeleen Bettini

Far North QLD Coordinator

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will" - Suzy Kassem • cairns@thepyjamafoundation.com

New South Wales

Megan Guenther

New South Wales Coordinator

When you make a commitment you build hope, when you keep it you build trust. megan@thepyjamafoundation.com

Victoria

Brigit King Victorian Coordinator

Bridgit King

Victoria Coordinator

brigit@thepyjamafoundation.com