Sue Cridge

Sue joined SVA in 2013 as the Director, of Education for SVA Bright Spots Schools Connection. The Connection provides innovative support to leaders to develop projects and actions that respond to the issues of educational disadvantage in Australia’s most challenged communities. The work of the Connection is published and recognized internationally as cutting-edge design in systems leadership support and implementation. In 2015, Sue was acknowledged with an award from the Australian Council Educational Leaders for this work. In 2018, Sue’s work was recognized with a national Impact25 nomination with Pro Bono Australia.

Sue has over 38 years of both education professional and social sector experience within schools and at the system and international levels of practice. She has been acknowledged as an Outstanding Educational Leader by the state of Victoria in 2003 and was awarded a Sir Winston Churchill Fellowship in Education in the same year while working in disadvantaged schools across the government education system.