Ailie Hansen
Ailie Hansen is a self titled “creative”, currently completing her honours year at RMIT in industrial design. Ailie has studied industrial design and worked in design roles in both Germany and Australia. Ailie is currently the undergraduate Designer at Geyer’s Melbourne studio. Ailie has a huge belief in design thinking and the idea that everyone is a designer. Ailie feels creativity doesn’t mean being able to paint or draw, but simply being able to think outside the square; something we can all learn to do.
Allyn Brooks LaSure
Allyn currently serves as a Vice Consul with the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne (he spent his first tour in Saudi Arabia). Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Allyn worked at the Environmental Protection Agency, as an aide to former U.S. Senator & NJ Governor Jon Corzine, as spokesman for NJ Senator Robert Menendez, and as the Senior Director of Communications for the Save Darfur Coalition.
Allyn Brooks-LaSure
Allyn currently serves as a Vice Consul with the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne (he spent his first tour in Saudi Arabia). Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Allyn worked at the Environmental Protection Agency, as an aide to former U.S. Senator & NJ Governor Jon Corzine, as spokesman for NJ Senator Robert Menendez, and as the Senior Director of Communications for the Save Darfur Coalition.
Charlie Hobman
Charlie Hobman is an advocate for human rights, particularly for the LGBTIQA community. Charlie is passionate about educating society on the broad spectrum of gender identity. Although young, Charlie feels empowered and ready to do what it takes to make an impact on the lives of LGBTIQA people and ensure that all sexual orientations and gender identities are recognized and acknowledged appropriately.
Christian Williams
Christian Williams was one of Australia’s best athletes before becoming and an award-winning teacher at St Michael’s Parish School. Christian has presented motivational talks to children at more than 100 schools, sharing insights into how sport can build resilience, confidence, good health and self-esteem. An ambassador for HeartKids, Christian mentors children and teenagers with heart conditions and his positive attitude is infectious and is inspiring children and adults alike to get up off the couch and get active.
Guy Parker
Guy is an artist, barista and Industrial Design student based in Melbourne. Throughout the years he has worked on farms, in construction and as a chef. As an artistic medium his primary choice is paper. He has exhibited work in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne. Origami has been a lifelong creative pursuit, meditation, toy, tool and art. In the area of design he has applied concepts and techniques into lighting design, furniture and ceramics.
Joel McKerrow
Joel McKerrow is a writer, speaker, educator, community arts worker and one of Australia’s most successful internationally touring performance poets. Based out of Melbourne, Australia he is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEAR Australia’ and was the co-founder of community arts organisation, ‘The Centre for Poetics and Justice’. Joel has performed around the world at iconic venues including the Sydney Opera House and the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC.
Jordan Dearsley
Jordan is a current student and guitarist aspiring to be the best musician he can be, exploring the creative potential in a multitude of musical genres, most notably, Jazz, Heavy Metal and Classical. Jordan has performed in many different contrasting ensembles in many differing contexts.
Kitty Van Cuylenburg
Kitty is a hydrogeologist, geologist and sustainability consultant. She has spent the better part of the past 5 years in the middle of Australia working on mine sites in Iron Ore, Coal Seam Gas, Mineral Sands and Gold resources. She is also passionate about learning and reading, and is a founding member of Library For All, an ed-tech startup building digital libraries for developing communities.
Paris Murray
Paris is currently a secondary student who is passionate about chasing ideas. She is the founder of the The Give Life Live Life campaign, an initiative that seeks to increase awareness about organ donation in Mount Eliza, Australia by raising the number organ donors in communities.
Trish Campbell
Trish Campbell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and an Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Trish’s PhD research improved understanding of how whooping cough spreads and developed strategies to protect infants too young to be vaccinated. Continuing in the field of infectious diseases, Trish has recently started researching the spread of skin infections, a major cause of poor health in Australian Indigenous populations.