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
Bridgit King
Victoria Coordinator
brigit@thepyjamafoundation.com
