Erica Burger

Erica Burger is originally from Pretoria and comes from a family of educators. She has over ten years of teaching experience in a Montessori setting and simultaneously ran her remedial reading centre at Lynnwood Ridge Primary School. She was the principal of a Montessori school for three years. Erica has a passion for education development and taught in Mamelodi township before making a move, in 2016, to the rural Eastern Cape. As the Education Programmes Manager for Jabulani Rural Health Foundation, she facilitated accredited teacher training programmes, developed various ECD centres, a community home visit programme and afterschool centres. She moved to Cape Town in 2019 to manage the Year Beyond Youth Development Programme in collaboration with the Western Cape Government, Department of Sports and Culture. Erica was also a part-time lecturer at Montessori Early Learning Foundation. Erica is currently the Head of Programme: Child Development and Youth Formation at Good Governance Africa