Professor Kyllie Cripps is a Palawa woman and Director of Monash’s Indigenous Studies Centre. She is one of Australia’s leading researchers on Indigenous family violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Leading major grants she has contributed to the field through empirical studies that have defined violence on Indigenous terms, identified factors contributing to violence, and examined the access and availability of services in the aftermath of violence. Her work has been critical in identifying gaps and opportunities to create sustainable solutions to support policy and practice change.

Kyllie’s research and engagement on solutions draws on the strength of her interdisciplinary experience and the value of using an intersectional lens for appreciating the context of violence. In the ‘doing of research’ Kyllie is focussed on creating safe places for community members to talk about topics often shrouded in silence. Hearing their stories and working with community to identify areas for change and the solutions for change is always a privilege. Her work has focussed on providing communities with resources to support their work locally, networking with individuals and community organisations and connecting them to other parts of Australia and the world to create a network of care and safety that can be a source of learning and empowerment for all.

Kyllie is also committed to mentoring and supporting the next generation of Indigenous and non Indigenous professionals, academics and scholars so that they too, may be inspired and motivated by the grounded experiences of working with and for community. 

Karen is the CEO of Full Stop Australia. She has more than 30 years’ experience working across not-for-profit organisations, government and research institutions in roles including CEO and executive leadership, strategy, advocacy, research, training, service delivery and community development.

Karen has worked in areas including child protection, early childhood education, out of home care, domestic and family violence, family law, homelessness, disability services and mental health. She has worked extensively with culturally diverse communities. As a consultant, Karen advised federal and state government departments in areas such as program design, procurement and system reform and ran a training and coaching practice supporting sector workers and leaders. Karen is a passionate advocate for prevention, recovery and healing. 

Dixie Link-Gordon is a Gooreng Gooreng woman from Central Coast Queensland, and a resident of New South Wales who works closely with the local and broader Indigenous community throughout Australia and the Pacific as a Domestic Violence Community Educator and Advocate. Dixie is the Founder and Ambassador of Breaking the Silent Codes, member of Centre for Excellence at Monash University. Breaking the Silent Codes is a charitable organisation which enables First Nations Women to find a safe environment in which to share their deeply personal stories and commence their healing journey. Dixie is honoured to have been invited to host and speak at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at parallel side events held by the United Nations in New York in 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2020. 

Madi Day is a trans Murri and researcher who works in Indigenous studies, media studies and studies of settler colonialism. They are currently working with the Office of the eSafety Commissioner looking at Trans and Gender Diverse people's experiences online and the Healing Foundation to determine the needs of LGBTQIA+ Stolen Generations Survivors. They have worked with Meta, Australian National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) and Media Diversity Australia to study violence towards Indigenous women and LGBTQIA+ people. 

Terrieanne is a strong proud Wiradjuri woman who has been raised and lived on Dharug land, with over a decade of experience in Aboriginal program management.

As the Manager of Aboriginal Services and Development, Terrieanne plays a key role in shaping strategies for reconciliation and cultural understanding for DV West, is the driving force on improving cultural competency, develops policies and oversees the service delivery of crisis accommodation, transitional housing and outreach supports for Aboriginal women and children impacted by domestic and family violence.

Hannah Taylor-Civitarese, is proud Kamilaroi woman, and resides on Kaurna country.

Hannah is currently pursuing her PhD through the University of Queensland, with experience in international social work, her research centres on the Intersectional factors of Coercive Control for First Nation women in Australia. Hannah sits on board of the Zarah foundation, the First Nation advisory committee to ANROWS and currently supports Monash University as a research assistant.

Hannah's journey began in child protection, where she learned the systemic challenges and racism within First Nation communities. Motivated to drive change, her commitment to advocacy led her to work with human trafficking task forces in England and the United States, specialising in the rescue and rehabilitation of human trafficking victims.

Hannah has also been with 1800RESPECT since 2016 in the role of National Project manager, National Partners Manager and currently a cultural coordinator where she is passionate about making 1800RESPECT a culturally safe and accessible service for underrepresented cohorts. 

Shane Phillips is the CEO of Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation and has cultural connections to Bundjalung, Wonnarua and Gringai communities.

Shane is a strong community leader and spokesperson. He is passionate about the importance of empowering Aboriginal people and is a dedicated contributor to a range of community organisations.

Prior to his appointment as CEO of Tribal Warrior, Shane’s career included roles working with young people in child protection, juvenile justice and the law, including working with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody as a community liaison officer under the Honourable Justice Hal Wooten. Tribal Warrior has been in the maritime industry for 22 years.

A proud father of four, he is passionate about empowerment and self-determination of Aboriginal youth.

Most recently Shane entered the Royal Australian Air Force as a Flight Lieutenant, with a focus on community engagement and recruiting more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into the Air Force. 

Tessa was born and grew up on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney), where she lives again after living overseas including in England, China and India. 

Prior to joining ANROWS in 2024, Tessa was the founding CEO of Health Justice Australia, the national centre for health justice partnership. Originally a criminologist, she has worked in health, criminal justice and human rights organisations in Australia and internationally. She was previously Deputy CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service and was the inaugural Fulbright Professional Scholar in Nonprofit Leadership. Tessa’s PhD looked at the detention and release of mentally disordered offenders.

Tessa is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and combines her passions for enabling young people to thrive and for arts and culture as Deputy Chair of the Board of Gondwana Choirs, the leader in Australian choral performance. 

Elena is a lawyer, speechwriter and former political staffer who has worked in legal and social policy for over 20 years. Elena’s expertise includes therapeutic justice, women’s decarceration, equal opportunity and human rights, as well as the prevention and elimination of violence against women and children.

At the CIJ Elena oversees a program of research which predominantly focuses on family violence, as well as the way in which experiences of trauma can push women and children into contact with the criminal justice system. In this capacity, Elena has led projects for Government departments and courts to support the implementation of recommendations from Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence.

Elena has been involved in ANROWS funded projects focusing on interventions with adult perpetrators of family violence. She is also lead researcher in a program of research focusing on young people’s use of violence at home, including the capacity of legal and service systems to respond to the complexity of need across families and communities

Previously Elena worked as a legal adviser and staffer in the Victorian Government for over a decade. Elena has also been employed as a consultant for a range of social policy and justice organisations, including the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Lula is a passionate advocate for women and victim survivors of childhood sexual abuse, childhood and adult domestic violence. Combining lived experience and professional expertise, Lula is dedicating her efforts to working on systemic and cultural change to reduce men’s use of violence in intimate, domestic and family settings. Lula has led the call for a greater focus on ending perpetration of DFSV and been an integral part of undertaking the first study to Measure DFSV Perpetration in Australia. In her current role as General Manager Lived Experience and Co-Production at Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, Lula is leading enterprise-wide change to ensure the experience and needs of women and children are central to research, advocacy and service delivery. 

Tash has worked in the space of primary prevention since 2015. She leads a team of subject matter specialists in sexual violence prevention and response. Tash loves supporting workplaces and institutions to promote safe, respectful spaces free of gendered violence.

Camille Schloeffel is a survivor-activist, social worker and sexual violence prevention expert. Camille founded The STOP Campaign, a student-led organisation addressing sexual violence at Australian universities, and has a Churchill Fellowship exploring ways activists and universities can work together to prevent sexual violence on campus. Camille has worked in gender-based violence prevention and response in government, university and non-profit sectors. Her experience includes policy reform, program management, resource creation, prevention education development and delivery, and facilitation of co-design processes with people with lived experience. As a survivor herself, she is passionate about supporting others to share their truths, building communities of care and leading collective action.

Cameron McDonald is a proud social worker who has never been satisfied with limiting and dominant forms of masculinity in Australia. From a young age he committed to taking action against gendered violence and what drives it. He has undertaken a range of work in the primary prevention of men’s violence against women, including men’s health, sexual health and healthy relationships initiatives with diverse populations. He has also worked in therapeutic and group settings with men who perpetrate violence and in men’s mental health and wellbeing more generally. At Our Watch, he authored the Men in focus practice guide (2022) in collaboration with an incredible advisory group. Cameron is currently a Prevention Sector Engagement Lead at Our Watch, where he builds the capacity and connectedness of practitioners working to prevent men’s violence against women across the continent.

Jackson Fairchild (they/them) is a consultant and one of Australia's leading voices in LGBTIQA+ gendered violence prevention. They are a qualified counsellor and clinical supervisor with a background in service leadership, research translation, policy advocacy, governance and organisational change. Jackson has held senior roles at Rainbow Health Australia, No To Violence and Thorne Harbour Health, and the Zoe Belle Gender Collective. Their website is jacksonfairchild.com   

Rea is an experienced engagement professional and expert in matters relating to culturally and linguistically diverse communities. In her role as Director of Engagement at Cultural Perspectives, Rea is responsible for leading government, corporate, not-for-profit and institutional projects across a national landscape.

Rea has strong experience in managing and leading national campaigns on women’s safety and domestic/family violence matters. She has been leading the delivery phases 4 and 5 of the national Stop it at the Start CALD campaign, primary prevention campaign on sexual consent, Consent can’t wait, the Attorney General department’s One Talk at a Time campaign raising awareness of child sexual abuse and most recently undertaking the delivery of a national campaign aiming to prevent abuse of older people.

Rea is also an experienced facilitator on domestic and family violence matters, having consulted with leading subject matter practitioners and service providers on behalf of the NSW Department of Communities and Justice in the development of NSW’s 10-Year DFV Workforce Strategy, a CALD DFV Manual for faith-based and community leaders and most recently facilitated a subject matter Roundtable on behalf of Sally Sitou, member of Strathfield and NSW legislative representative, Jason Yat Sen Li.

Rea is also a member of the national provider of support for people impacted by sexual, domestic and family violence, Full Stop Australia and the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council’s of Australia – CALD Women’s Advisory Group. Rea has also recently joined the Settlement as a Board Member. 

Tara Hunter is based on Gadigal Land (Sydney) and is the Director of Client and Clinical Services at Full Stop Australia, first established in the 1970s and now one of the country’s most recognised sexual, domestic and family violence response services.

With a Master of Social Work and various workplace training and family dispute resolution certifications, Tara’s approach to leadership is trauma-informed and backed up by over 20 years of experience in the sector, from front-line client work to high-level strategic advisory roles.

Having managed sexual assault support services within the public health network system, led and mentored teams of clinicians through complex caseloads, spoken publicly and in parliament on key law reform matters, including sexual consent, Tara offers an important client-centred approach to the national conversation on ending violence and abuse.

Tara is committed to building stable and reliable trauma-specialist systems that support clients and front-line workers, while also addressing the underlying systemic and social causes of gender-based violence.

Katherine is the Executive Director of National Women’s Safety Alliance, with a membership over of 750 individuals and organisations she is determined we will end violence against all identifying women, non binary people and children. NWSA under Katherine’s leadership is a trusted government advisor, and has influenced major federal policy reforms in Domestic, Family and Sexual violence; There is nothing more important than making Australia a safer place for all who make their home here. 2023 Women’s Agenda Emerging NFP leader award winner.

Chantay Link is a Goreng Goreng Kabi Kabi woman currently working with the Ya'djin Women's Collective and the Brisbane Rape Incest Survivor Support Centre (BRISSC) as Aunty in Residence. 

Brenda Lin is a Director and Co-founder of The Survivor Hub, a survivor-led initiative based on Gadigal land that supports victim-survivors of sexual assault and their allies. The Survivor Hub was created to provide safe spaces for survivors to find connection, support one another and share knowledge based on lived experiences.
Since its launch in November 2023, Brenda has been a member of the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP) Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP).
In addition to her work at The Survivor Hub, Brenda is also a PhD Candidate, and engages in teaching and research work in the field of criminology at The University of Sydney Law School. Her doctoral research is on the topic of rehabilitation philosophy in youth justice detention centres. Brenda is able to bring her academic and theoretical knowledge to complement her lived experiences as a survivor and practitioner in her work at The Survivor Hub.

Prior to commencing as the NSW Women's Safety Commissioner, Dr Tonkin was a barrister at Hanson Chambers in Adelaide and Garden Court Chambers in London. She previously worked as an international human rights lawyer at the United Nations and as Director of Disability Rights at the Australian Human Rights Commission. She was also a lecturer in international law at the University of Oxford and University of Adelaide, and Co-Chair of the Women and Girls Rights Subcommittee of the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.

Dr Tonkin holds a master's degree and PhD in international law from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and Honours Degrees in Law and Science from the University of Adelaide.

Pip Davis is the Principal Solicitor at Women’s Legal Service NSW.  She has worked in community legal centres for more than 24 years, the last 12 of those years at WLS NSW.

For over 40 years, Women’s Legal Service NSW has advocated for an end to gender-based violence and the need to better address gender equality in Australia.  Women’s Legal Service NSW is a specialist community legal centre that works to redress inequalities and discrimination faced by women as they engage in legal processes and legal systems by way of direct legal services, undertaking policy advocacy and through provision of training and education. Their work is delivered through a gender and trauma informed lens and focusses on the right of women and children to live free from violence, to be safe in their homes, at work, at school, in the community and online. Women’s Legal Service NSW specialises in family law, domestic and family violence, sexual violence and abuse, discrimination and employment law.  

Tara Hunter is based on Gadigal Land (Sydney) and is the Director of Client and Clinical Services at Full Stop Australia, first established in the 1970s and now one of the country’s most recognised sexual, domestic and family violence response services.

With a Master of Social Work and various workplace training and family dispute resolution certifications, Tara’s approach to leadership is trauma-informed and backed up by over 20 years of experience in the sector, from front-line client work to high-level strategic advisory roles.

Having managed sexual assault support services within the public health network system, led and mentored teams of clinicians through complex caseloads, spoken publicly and in parliament on key law reform matters, including sexual consent, Tara offers an important client-centred approach to the national conversation on ending violence and abuse.

Tara is committed to building stable and reliable trauma-specialist systems that support clients and front-line workers, while also addressing the underlying systemic and social causes of gender-based violence.

Rizina Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Young Women’s Alliance (YWA), which aims to be the chief research and representative organisation for young Australian women. Rizina grew up in Newcastle, NSW and has studied philosophy, gender and policy evaluation at Stanford, Oxford, and Cambridge.