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. She also lectures in the unit Changing the World: Social Innovation, Finance, and Enterprise. Claire also volunteers as Chair of the Board for community arts organization Globe Town Project and as Board Director for Arts Initiative Australia.

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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.

Since November 2012, Peter has been working as Legal Counsel at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) in Hong Kong where he has been leading a number of advocacy and policy projects relating to improving the anti-discrimination legislation and related policies.

Previously for 11 years Peter worked in London in a number of human rights roles including at Amnesty International UK; the Commission for Racial Equality as Principal Litigation Officer and Head of European and International Legal Policy from 2005 to 2008; the Equality and Human Rights Commission as a Senior Lawyer and Director of Legal Policy from 2008 to 2012; and at the Commonwealth Secretariat in 2012 as a human rights consultant on Commonwealth projects.

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. She is currently completing the CASE Asia Pacific Fundraising Graduate Program and is an Advancement Officer at the Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Western Australia.

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. Between 2002 and 2013 Andrea was Equality Lawyer and then Legal Director at INTERIGHTS where she litigated key cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Before joining INTERIGHTS, she worked at the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva and at the South Asia Documentation Centre in New Delhi. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. Andrea has a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an LLM in Public International Law (Dist.) from the London School of Economics, where she was awarded the Rosalyn Higgins Award for topping the course. She sits on the litigation advisory panels of a number of international human rights organizations and lectures regularly on international litigation and equality law. Andrea Signs. She is a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) and of a small refugee yoga charity, OurMala. In 2015, Andrea was elected an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

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 significant growth and the expansion of the inclusion focused work into the Government and Corporate environment, as well as public design. Prior to joining Australian Inclusion Group Paul was the State Manager of the Taxation Institute of Australia and before that spent 8 years as the Director of Outreach Programs at Scitech. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science from UWA, a Graduate Diploma of Education from Edith Cowan University and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration at UWA

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. She has successfully managed both leadership and large-scale organizational development initiatives with executive teams and companies around the globe. An engaging business leader and innovative entrepreneur, Vanessa is passionate about developing leadership capability, unlocking human potential and building mindful, conscious and inclusive organizations. She is known for her ability to assist her clients through deep and sustainable transformation with life-changing and social impact. She has also held sessional roles in academia. Vanessa is a published author and in addition to her many industry articles released her first book Bitch Fight: Putting an End to Women Bullying Women in the Workplace in February 2016 in French & English. Vanessa was also short-listed for the Telstra Business Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016. 

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. She subsequently spent a decade based in New York, where she worked as a communications consultant for UNICEF, as well as a producer in advertising, news, and independent film. 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. For UNICEF, Shantha worked on a variety of communication initiatives and has been actively involved in getting media attention to child rights, global health and poverty in Africa and Asia. During her stint as head of UNICEF's Africa media hub, based in Johannesburg, she traveled extensively across the continent to provide communication support in Sub Saharan Africa. Most recently, based in China, in addition to managing UNICEF's external relations, she helped to initiate an innovative partnership between UNICEF and Tsinghua University. and contributed to strengthening collaboration between China and African countries on global health. Shantha has a master's degree in public policy and administration with a concentration in international media and communication from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a honors degree in History from the University of Western Australia.

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. In 2016, Fadzi was awarded the International Racial Equity Leadership Award in the USA and named a finalist for the Australian Human Rights, 'Racism it Stops With Me' Award.

This is part of a diversity and inclusion series that I did for The University of Western Australia. 

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. Krista devotes her spare time to mentoring youth, as well as generating and supporting new ideas for the success and sustainability of our communities through a number of committees and initiatives.

In recognition of her hard work, Krista was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 and awarded the Human Rights Awards Young People's Medal in 2012. She was also listed in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac's 100 Women of Influence Young Leader category in 2013 and was a finalist in the Telstra Business Women's Awards in both the Corporate and Private and Young Business Woman categories in 2015. Krista is also a board member of the Museum for Freedom and Tolerance (WA) and the Western Australian Aboriginal Advisory Council.