Meet our Executive Committee

Trevor is CEO of Disability Justice Advocacy, providing advocacy support to people who have ongoing support needs as a result of disability.

He is also Director and Information Officer & Chairperson (Asia Pacific Region) of Disabled People’s International.

He has been an active member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) having previously held the roles of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Chair of the Board.

He received an Order of Australia Medal OAM in June 2022 for his service to and work with people with disabilities. He was a recipient of a Harvard Scholarship in 2012, was nominated for Australian of the Year in 2016, and has won numerous awards for his work.

She has worked in government and opposition, on two federal election campaigns, in a patient advocacy organisation and for a global manufacturing company. She is passionate about the role of government in everyday life and the importance of social inclusion, equality and workplace participation. 

Lisa brings extensive experience in working to promote the rights of people with disabilities and their families both in Australia and around the world.  
  
Lisa initially trained and worked as a social worker, working in the areas of psychosocial disability support, vocational rehabilitation and Local Support Coordination with both state and Commonwealth government services.  
 
Since earning her Master of International Development in 2008, Lisa has gained more than 15 years’ experience in international development across more than 25 countries. Before joining The Fred Hollows Foundation, where she has served for over 7 years, Lisa worked with CBM International, the Australian Red Cross, UNDP and Humanity and Inclusion in both development and humanitarian contexts.  
 
Lisa is deeply committed to promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and to participatory methodologies that centre lived experience and intersectional perspectives. She also advocates for strengths-based capacity development of Organizations of People with Disabilities, recognizing OPDs as crucial drivers of locally led development. 
 

She brings a strong commitment to centreing the voice and participation of people with disabilities and their organisations in inclusive international development work undertaken by Organisations of People with Disabilities and development partner agencies.   

Helen has extensive involvement with BCA on committees, branches and as a former director of BCA. She has developed and currently oversees BCA’s international engagement strategy to enhance links between Australian residents with vision impairment and international peer organisations, to strengthen advocacy around common issues and learn from each other.  

She has been serving on the board of the World Blind Union Asia Pacific (WBUAP) Region since June 2021, where she is currently collaborating with other board members to oversee regional advocacy and capacity building activities, in fulfillment of the regional work plan.   

Helen represents BCA as the voting delegate for the Pacific Disability Forum (PDF). 

Helen brings experience of collaboration with blindness organisations as a director of BCA, and with mainstream organisations through her professional career, most recently as a program manager with Women With Disabilities Victoria, where she designs and implements programs and undertakes policy activities promoting gender and disability inclusive practice in violence prevention and health and community service provision, in partnership with mainstream organisations.   

As a member of the ADDC Executive Committee, Helen anticipates promoting the participation of people with disabilities and their organisations in regional and global advocacy and development activities. She looks forward to supporting collaboration among ADDC members, and promoting and sustaining partnerships with aligned external disability, development and other organisations to advance the ADDC’s mission and activities. 

Helen holds qualifications in social work, family dispute resolution and community sector management.  

Sally has exposure to and understanding of the work of DFAT and other key stakeholders in international development, and has worked closely with the disability movement to advocate for and enhance disability equity in international development efforts. 

Representing UNIFEM Pacific (now UN Women) as part of the 2007 Roundtable in Fiji on the Situation of Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Pacific, informing the Pacific Sisters with Disabilities: At the Intersection of Discrimination Report, exposed her to the diverse experiences of women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific region. As part of AusAID’s (now DFAT) Disability Inclusive Development Team integral to implementation of the first Development for All Strategy 2009-2014, she worked closely with Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs), including the Pacific Disability Forum, as well as with Australian government leaders to enhance disability inclusion within and through the Australian aid program.  

As a Senior Technical Adviser – Inclusive Development with CBM Australia (2017-2018), Sally provided technical advice and capacity support to further support Australian Government commitments under the second Development for All Strategy 2015-2020. She continued to work closely with the disability movement and a range of OPDs throughout the region to co-design and co-deliver training programs to enhance inclusive development efforts in-country (Timor Leste, Myanmar, Nauru, Solomon Islands).  

As an independent consultant since 2017, Sally provides ongoing support to DFAT-funded programs including as an Inclusion Adviser (e.g. DiD4All Help Desk) and Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) Adviser (e.g. Vanuatu-Australia Policing and Justice Program (VAPJP)). She also undertakes targeted roles on the rights of persons with disabilities specifically and brings a strong focus and interest in access to justice and legislative compliance with the Convention for Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Some examples include working together with the national OPD and Vanuatu government disability focal point to conduct research and desk review on access to justice for persons with disabilities in Vanuatu; working with psychiatric survivors in Fiji to conduct a legislative review on mental health law and compliance with the CRPD; and working with the national OPD and UNICEF in PNG to review the draft national disability law for compliance with international human rights law including the CRPD. 

Sally’s experience in social justice and international development is grounded in formal training as a Lawyer and post-graduate legal education.