Lauren Kaszubski is the CERES Nature Play and Waste Programs Coordinator. It all started in Year 9 when Lauren heard the first-hand story of a woman living in the treetop of a Californian Redwood for 464 days in protest against the logging of local Redwood forests. It was the story that would inspire Lauren to start the first-ever Environmental Awareness Group at her high school and go on to study Environmental Science & Management at the University of Newcastle. During her time of study Lauren started working casually in outdoor education programs and this soon ignited her passion to work with children and the environment at the same time. Now-a- days Lauren is all about worm poo, recycling & waste management, and local food systems. Lauren started volunteering at CERES in 2013 and soon after became one of the CERES Excursions casual teachers. As of late 2013 Lauren has been the Waste Programs Coordinator. With her passion and knowledge combined Lauren works towards providing students with creative hands-on learning experiences that they can carry with them throughout their day-to-day lives.
Guest Speakers:
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald is Australia’s leading clothes-mending practitioner, a mending instructor and author of the book Modern Mending.
Her mending has been displayed in art exhibitions in Melbourne and Adelaide. She is passionate about repair in all its forms; in 2014 she founded Bright Sparks, a social enterprise that repaired and reused electrical appliances, diverting more than 15 tonnes of e-waste from landfill. You can find her online at erinlewisfitzgerald.com and modernmending.com
Sean Trewick is Co-founder of Circular Economy Victoria, a community activator that helps individuals see their skillsets through a circular lens. A process improvement engineer by training, he has worked to help organisations develop purpose oriented strategies and customer centric operations in both Australia and South Africa. Sean is now focussing his energy on building local circular ecosystems that empower circular citizens to drive the transition towards a future within the Doughnut.
Emily Hui is an avid learner and passionate educator with experience in early years, primary, secondary, International Baccalaureate (IB), Positive Education and environmental sustainability. As the Director of Community at Education Changemakers in 2019, Emily unleashed teacher-led innovation through the Changemakers program supporting innovative teachers to drive improvements in their schools, design and deliver powerful learning through future-focused project-based learning through Future Ready and co-designing a pilot project and implementing a whole school collaborative planning and teaching with a team of teachers. Emily is a citizen scientist with The EcoCentre, is a co-founder and educator with Zero Waste Victoria and holds both primary and secondary teaching degrees from Monash University and Deakin University.