Tricia Alegra Jenkins MBE is an innovative educator with a growing international profile. She is the Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Educational Opportunities at the University of Liverpool, where she has worked for over 25 years. As President of the European Children’s Universities Network and Principal Investigator of the Mobilising Mutual Learning Action Plan – SiS Catalyst: Children as Change Agents for Science and Society, she travels extensively promoting the concept of social inclusion and institutional change through the active learning, from and with children. At the heart of her work is the belief that we have a growing imperative to accept our role as custodians of the future of our children, as well as that of our planet earth.