Our People

Our Staff

Our team at OzGREEN are dedicated, highly skilled and love what we do.

Anton Juodvalkis

Chief Executive Officer

Anton has a broad skill base ranging from change management, project management, corporate governance, risk and compliance through to IT, accounting, business analysis, procurement, asset management, and engineering. He has worked in a diverse range of industries including the not-for-profit sector, local government, fast-moving consumer goods, telecommunications, print management, investment management, and manufacturing.
Anton is passionate about the health of the environment and what makes organisations successful. For fun, he likes to explore natural areas and serve as a volunteer firefighter.

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Sue Lennox AM

Co-Founder OzGREEN

Program Manager

2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year

To Sue, OzGREEN is not a job – it is her strategic response to her deep concern for the environment and her vision to build a more sustainable, peaceful and equitable world. Sue, along with her husband Colin, has been the driving force behind OzGREEN since its’ inception.
Sue is a social entrepreneur (Social Ventures Australia Big Boost 2002) and a former high school science teacher. She has played a key role in the design and delivery of OzGREEN programs since it began in 1992. These programs have directly involved over 50,000 people from urban, regional, remote, corporate and Indigenous communities in Australia, India, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, USA, Canada and Central America. Sue was named as one of the Most Influential People in Sydney in 2007 and 2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-lennox-2b788713/
Sue manages the following programs :
- youth leading the world
- weather watching 101
- clean ganges
Sue is a facilitator in the following programs :
- campme

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Anna Juodvalkis

Partnerships Manager

Anna works closely with government agencies, private organisations and individual donors to design and deliver programs that achieve positive outcomes for communities and the environment.
Anna is a social scientist who is interested in global inequality, social policy, project management and program evaluation. She is a University of New England Vice Chancellor Scholar and has studied the ‘Norwegian Welfare State’ at Oslo University.
Anna manages the following programs :
- walks4wellness
- mid north coast bushwalks

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Amy Denshire

Program Manager & Communications Manager

Amy is passionate about how effective communication can contribute to the change that is needed.

Trained in Industrial Design, Secondary Teaching, and Community Development, Amy brings experience in communication, marketing, community engagement, web and graphic design, grants and event management to OzGREEN.
Amy is proud of her work leading the Bellingen Riverwatch to grow to become the largest water quality monitoring citizen science program in New South Wales and the largest macroinvertebrate monitoring citizen science program in Australia, and possibly the world.
In her role overseeing organisation-wide communications, Amy is focused upon being data and impact driven and upon continual refinement.
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Amy manages the following programs :
- bellingen riverwatch
- interschool river fun day
- macro muster
- unearthed
- wqm program
On the comms team, Amy manages :
- our website
- free resource library
- our fundraising events
- our newsletter

Kathleen Hannah

Program Manager

Kathleen’s passion for protecting the environment saw her complete a Bachelor of Science in Conservation Biology and Ecology and an Honours Degree studying the use of Chronomids as a biomonitoring tool for aquatic salinity. An interest and desire to inspire saw Kathleen graduate with a Diploma of Primary Education and has since taught across both Primary and Secondary year levels.
Kathleen has had the privilege of living, working, and learning in a number of Indigenous Communities across the Top End of Australia as both a classroom teacher in a remote community in the Kimberley and working in various positions for the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education.
Kathleen’s motivation to reach out and assist the Global Community of women and girls in need saw her start up and coordinate a local chapter of 'Days for Girls', a volunteer based, not-for-profit organisation providing handmade reusable menstrual kits in Bellingen.
Kathleen manages the folowing programs :
- campme
- changemakers
- myhive
- rethink waste
- resilient communities
- thrive festival

Sam Daykin

Event Coordinator

Sam is a passionate young environmentalist who is dedicated to empowering and educating young people about the importance of protecting and preserving the local environment.
Sam's love for nature was instilled in them during childhood, where Sam spent countless hours camping, hiking, and having adventures in the great outdoors. This has led Sam to develop a deep care and passion for minimizing his individual impact on the planet, and they is committed to using their skills and knowledge to make a difference in the world.
Currently Sam works as OzGREEN's Youth Activities Coordinator, and also the Bellingen Riverwatch Coordinator. Sam is responsible for organising fun and educational environmental events for young people, and has been able to channel creativity in a meaningful way, and pursue an ever growing interest in science through this role.
With a large focus on bringing youth voice into all of OzGREEN's programs Sam is a great addition to the team and provides a unique opportunity for OzGREEN to connect deeply with young people in the region.
Sam coordinates the following programs :
- bellinger riverwatch data portal
- lavenders bridge tree project
- macro muster
- macro school workshops
- orama tree project
- riveryouthfest
- wqm program (lead coordinator)
- wqm schools workshops
Sam also helps to deliver the following programs :
- campme
- myhive
- rethink waste
On the comms team, Sam helps to deliver :
- our free resource library
- our instagram
- our facebook pages
- our fundraising events
- our sponsorship packages

Lily Kostka

Event Coordinator

With a background in ecological horticulture and organic food production, Kaleb has a deep interest in ethnobotany and learning from Indigenous cultures to find solutions to the biggest issues we face as a society, specifically relating to production of food, medicine and functional materials.
Kaleb envisions a future where all nations and cultures come together to focus on caring for the planet and all of its residents, and believes the education and empowerment of young people today is a fundamental component of achieving this.

Bruce Naylor

Event Coordinator

Bruce help to deliver the following programs :
- 5 things workshops
- nature photography workshops
- resilient communities

Casual Facilitators

Kaleb Ross

Event Coordinator

Kaleb help to deliver the following programs :
- rethink waste

Ali Thwaites

Event Coordinator

Ali helps to deliver the following programs :
- youth leading the world

Alison Heeley

Event Coordinator

Alison helps to deliver the following programs :
- resilient communities

Alex Moller

Event Coordinator

Alex helps to deliver the following programs :
- thrive festival

Our Board

Steven Doyle

Chair

Steven is a renewable energy pioneer, co-founding his first renewable energy business in Bellingen in the 1980s.
As a long-term friend of OzGREEN, he organised support for Youth Leading the World in Kiribati and visited the Swatcha Ganga project in India whilst on a journey to provide a renewable energy system to secure reliable electricity for a hospital servicing Tibetan refugees.
Steven is also the author of an award-winning young adult novel titled The Hero Gene.

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Sue Lennox

Secretary and Public Officer

To Sue, OzGREEN is not a job – it is her strategic response to her deep concern for the environment and her vision to build a more sustainable, peaceful and equitable world. Sue, along with her husband Colin, has been the driving force behind OzGREEN since it’s inception.
Sue is a social entrepreneur (Social Ventures Australia Big Boost 2002) and a former high school science teacher. She has played a key role in the design and delivery of OzGREEN programs since it began in 1992. These programs have directly involved over 50,000 people from urban, regional, remote, corporate and Indigenous communities in Australia, India, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, USA, Canada and Central America.
Sue was named as one of the Most Influential People in Sydney in 2007 and 2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year.

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Hamish Dobbs

Treasurer

Senior Executive and Technologist
MBA
Financial, Technology and Program management

Anton Juodvalkis

Director

Anton has a broad skill base ranging from change management, project management, corporate governance, risk and compliance through to IT, accounting, business analysis, procurement, asset management, and engineering. He has worked in a diverse range of industries including the not-for-profit sector, local government, fast-moving consumer goods, telecommunications, print management, investment management, and manufacturing.
Anton is passionate about the health of the environment and what makes organisations successful. For fun, he likes to explore natural areas and serve as a volunteer firefighter.

Connect with Anton on LinkedIn

Jaden Harris

Jaden Harris is the Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer at Forever Network. He is co-founder and coordinator of the Sydney Youth Climate Action Network (SYCAN), which was founded in 2009 at an OzGREEN’s Youth Leading Australia congress.
Jaden was winner of NSW-ACT Young Achiever of the Year in 2015.

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Director

Vanessa Moskal

Director

Vanessa is a Youth Leading the World Facilitator and has been actively involved as a volunteer with OzGREEN since 2008. Vanessa represented Australia at the Youth Precursor to the G8 Summit in 2008. She currently works as a NSW Compliance Officer for reducing carbon emissions with National Carbon Bank of Australia. This work is under the NSW Energy Savings Scheme (ESS). She has a BA (Political, Economic & Social Sciences).
Vanessa was elected as an independent to local government in 2012, as a Councillor for Warringah till 2016, and served on the Social LRC for the Northern Beaches Council.
She has been awarded a Certificate of Commendation for Service to the Community by The Order of Australia and is passionate about community service.