Dr Cathy Wilkinson is CEO of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation and has over 20 years leadership experience in sustainable development in Australia and Europe. She led major metropolitan planning, environment and water reforms for the Victorian government including as CEO of the Environmental Protection Authority Victoria, was an urban resilience expert at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, and a Professor of Practice at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. On the home front, Cathy’s kitchen garden has taken over her front driveway, she has been involved in community urban farming initiatives from the Arctic to suburban Melbourne and learned a lot from taking a 2 month old and a 2 year old to northern Sweden and experiencing the Scandinavian early learning and primary education systems.