Giulietta Harrison, who is the current Treasurer of SARAECE has come from a background of many years of teaching in early childhood classrooms across a variety of contexts. She has been a school Principal, an H.O.D and a lecturer in Foundation Phase. She is presently the Director for Africa A+ Schools and H.O.D. for B.Ed. F.P. at SANTS, Higher Education Institute. She has a passion for helping teachers to provide positive spaces for learning which she expresses through her work in Emotional Intelligence. She did her Masters research looking at how to promote this in a Grade R classroom and her PhD on understanding how children learning, using Grade 1 Literacy as her vehicle for analysis. She has written a variety of training programmes as ‘open-source’ documents for the NPO sector including parent and teacher programmes. As the Director of an NPO, she works closely with and conducts research with educators in the poorest communities in South Africa. She has published extensively in books and journals together with supervising Masters and PhD students when working at Rhodes University.