Claire Stokes is a passionate social impact leader, innovator, educator and researcher working to create systems-level change to enable all people to reach their potential. Claire currently holds several positions at the Centre for Social Impact UWA. She works on research projects, particularly in the area of impact measurement, and manages the Centre’s engagement activities. This includes being Co-Director of the major annual event the Social Impact Festival held in Perth, Western Australia.

Peter is an international human rights lawyer who has been working in the field of humanitarian law and advocacy for 18 years in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, Commonwealth countries, and most recently in Hong Kong China.

Aleesha Kumar graduated from Penrhos College in 2013. She studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia, majoring in Political Science & International Relations and French. During this time she completed a six-month exchange at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid. She is Founder and CEO of non-profit LOVE Foundation Australia, which works to fight poverty through the arts.

Dave is the co-founder of London based VC funded company Bibliotech - the Spotify for Textbooks. As the 2013 Western Australian Rhodes Scholar, Dave studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) at Oxford University after his BSc (Chemistry & Physics) at the University of Western Australia. Dave’s rural schooling experience at Bunbury Senior High School inspired him to co-found TLG to enable rural and Indigenous students to reach their full potential.

Andrea Coomber has been Andrea Coomber has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. As Director she has reoriented the organization’s strategy and been instrumental in the development of JUSTICE’s work on system reform, including on changing the model of decision making in the civil courts and tribunals, reconfiguration of court buildings to respond to the use of ordinary court users and increasing judicial diversity.

Paul is the CEO of Australian Inclusion Group. The group is currently comprised of 2 businesses, Inclusion WA and Inclusion Solutions. Paul has been in the role for the past 8 years. During this time he has overseen the significant growth and the expansion of the inclusion focused work into the Government and Corporate environment, as well as public design.

Vanessa Vershaw is an Australian organizational psychologist, coach, entrepreneur, journalist and former executive with over eighteen years of extensive international organizational development and leadership consulting experience. As an executive level practitioner, Vanessa is a highly regarded trusted advisor to high-level executives and Fortune 500 organizations.

Shantha Bloemen has spent the last two decades working in international humanitarian and development assistance. She first started her work in development in Zambia, where she worked in a rural community. Her award-winning film T-shirt Travels, the story of second-hand clothes and third world debt, which highlighted the impact of debt in poor countries, aired on PBS in the US in 2001 and was used widely in schools and universities as a teaching tool.

Fadzi Whande is an award-winning social justice advocate and a Global Diversity and Inclusion, Strategist. She currently serves as the National Human Rights Program Convenor for the United Nations Association of Australia and sits on the Board of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance, Diversity committee for the Australian Computer Society and is an Ambassador for 100 Women, Water for Africa and the Humanitarian Group.

Noongar woman Krista McMeeken grew up in Esperance and relocated to Perth in 2008, having completed her Bachelor of Laws at University of Western Australia, she has since practiced as a commercial litigator for 5 years. Krista is currently taking 12 months out from her legal career to work as a Principal Policy Officer for the Commissioner for Children and Young People.