Committee Of Management

Our Committee of Management Team

The MCCCC Committee of Management (CoM). The CoM is predominately made up of parents and guardians of children who attend the services that are passionate about the community. It is a voluntary role but the MCCCC structure requires it to be in place to operate. The critical role of the CoM is to set the strategic direction of the service and to influence change across the organisation.

To contact the CoMs, please email committee@mcccc.com.au

• Tanya Craig Riou – Chair is a Chartered Accountant and a strategic finance professional with a focus on profitability, sound financial management, risk management, governance, innovation, and improvement. She is currently a Finance Manager and Chapter Lead at a large telecommunications company and prior to this worked in audit at big 4 firm EY as well as the Victorian Auditor Generals Office, across a range of clients and industries, including both financial and compliance audits. Her daughter and son both attend Dunstan Reserve.

• Lara Gerrand – Vice Chair is the National Practice and Research Lead at Whitelion Youth, which works with young people and families at risk, ensuring that youth workers across four states are using best youth work practices and ensuring that youth participation is happening across the organization. Lara and their partner Emilie have two kids, Carolina & Josephine who are at Mitchell St.

• Rachael Fahy – Secretary is a lawyer at a bank with experience in litigation, insolvency, and restructuring. She has also worked as in-house legal counsel at a charity providing mental health services to schoolchildren. She is currently Secretary of MCCCC Committee of management. She has a son who has been attending Dunstan Reserve since early 2022.

• Lou Fourriere-Chea is a Research Fellow in neurobiology at the University of Melbourne. Lou moved to Melbourne from France in 2017 and has been part of the MCCCC family since 2020. Her youngest son is attending Dunstan Reserve.

• Nadya Nichols is a Director at KPMG’s consulting practice. Her area of expertise is customer service and experience improvement, revenue growth, cost and operations optimisation. Her daughter Zoe has been attending Mitchell street service since January 2024, and her son Remy will be starting Mitchell street in the near future.

• Sytske Hillenius is a Philanthropy Executive at Bush Heritage Australia with professional experience across fundraising, engagement, communications, strategic planning and as a violinist and violin teacher. She is passionate supporter of community organisations fostering learning, creativity, and development in young people through play, music and art and is also a current director of Merri-bek Toy Library. She was previously a director of String mania Music Camp. Her son has attended Dunstan Reserve since 2024. 

• Tess Bright is a Research Fellow in disability and public health at the University of Melbourne. She has been part of the MCCCC community since 2022. Her son and daughter attend Dunstan reserve