Senior Project Officer, B4 Early Years Coalition, TAS

Annette has an extensive history working in community development, early childhood education and care, and service system reform. This is alongside her outside of work life as a visual artist.

Annette is currently the Senior Project Officer for the B4 Early Years Coalition (B4), a Collective Impact initiative focusing on the early years pregnancy to 4 years including the first 1000 days.

Before to moving to Tasmania in 2017, Annette spend over 10 years working in Central Australia and prior to this with the Australian Government in a range of policy and programming areas including early childhood care and development.  
 
In her current role Annette was key to B4’s highly successful Making Marks project which saw children’s art from 0-4 years celebrated and showcased across Tasmania. Annette is a passionate advocate for social justice and the need to get it right in the early years so we get it right now and for life. Annette is also a believer there is creativity in all of us!

“I have dedicated my professional career over many decades to working with communities, families and children towards long term sustainable change in the early years. I am committed to continue in this work disrupting the systems that support the status quo and ensure all Australian children thrive and grow now and into their futures.”