Beyond UWA

About Nevin I am a Mechanical Engineering student in my sixth year at university. Since commencing studies at UWA, I have been involved in almost every aspect of university life. I have been Treasurer and President of DESI, a club which represents students with a background from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Nepal. I was Societies Council President in 2015 and responsible for managing...

Current Campaign Coordinator for Social Reinvestment WA, launching the public campaign for Healthy Families, Smart Justice, and Safe Communities, so we can close the gap on Aboriginal incarceration in WA once and for all.

Vanessa Vershaw is an Australian organisational psychologist, coach, entrepreneur, journalist and former executive with over eighteen years of extensive international organisational development and leadership consulting experience. As an executive level practitioner, Vanessa is a highly regarded trusted advisor to high level executives and Fortune 500 organisations. She has successfully managed bo...

Shantha 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-s...

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...

"I was born in Bosnia and have lived in Australia for more than half of my life. I have been working for the Commonwealth Government for the past five years and am currently a Multicultural Community Liaison Officer at the Department of Social Services. While professionally I have worked in service delivery and policy fields, I remain passionate about academia and continue to pursue research in co...

Andrea Coomber has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. As Director she has reoriented the organisation’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 diversit...

Fred Chaney’s hard work in support of often marginalised people has never faltered.  As founding co-chair of Reconciliation Australia and an early advocate for Aboriginal voting rights, Fred’s contribution includes establishing the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia and  between 1978-80 sat as Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.  For many years, Fred was Deputy President of the Nat...

Peter is an international human rights lawyer who has been working in the field of human 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 p...

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 art...

Dave is the co-founder of London based VC funded company BibliU - 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 an...

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...

Fadzi Whande is an award winning social justice advocate and a Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategist. She currently works as the Manger, Inclusion and Diversity, at the University of Western Australia. Fadzi 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, Australian Comp...

"As citizens, humanity's fate ultimately rests in our hands and our goal of a world without extreme poverty is only going to be realised through the constant drumbeat of citizen-led movements clambering for change."

James Kelley joins Noongar woman Krista McMeeken, who shares how growing up in Esperance, relocating to Perth in 2008, and her role as Principal Policy Officer at Commissioner for Children and Young People drives her towards fostering an inclusive society. "Inclusion is important to me because an inclusive environment is the key to individual happiness and solving our most complex issues as organi...

Our decisions about where and how to live are among the most important of our lives. More and more of us progress our careers in large urban centres. That means living in one or facing lengthy commutes or the isolation of telecommuting in trade. As city housing prices soar and traffic slows, the question of what makes a great city seems straightforward – but is it? Join a panel of thought-leaders,...