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chair & Secretary, Sandra Cook

chair & Secretary, Sandra Cook

-Sandra Cook is the Senior Operations Manager for MOSH, a rapidly growing start-up delivering on line health services to those who traditionally may not seek help. Sandra works closely with a dedicated team of doctors as the company continues to expand its services.  With an extensive background in sales, management, marketing and journalism, Sandra offers support in events, professional development, mentoring and networking. Her special interests of gender equity, particularly with women and work, continue to be at the forefront of her not for profit work, both through BPW Australia and economic Security4Women.

Vice Chair, Terese Edwards

Vice Chair, Terese Edwards

Terese  has represented the plight of single mothers affected by poverty, hardship and/or domestic violence. Her connection and knowledge is authentic, and a product of working directly with mothers across Australia. Terese has lodged the first individual complaint (CEDAW) accepted by the United Nations, produced a documentary which gives voice to woman in hardship, and has policy expertise in the area of child support and income assistance. A past Deputy President of ACOSS, a current PHD Candidature, holds an MPA and has a Company Directors Certificate.

TREASURER, ANGELA TOMAZOS

TREASURER, ANGELA TOMAZOS

Angela Tomazos has achieved over 25 years in banking and finance, presently in a leadership role at a major Australian bank.

She won the 2019 Telstra NT Businesswomen’s Medium and Large Business Award and formerly contributed to the Northern Australia Ministerial Forum. Currently, she sits on the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Board.

Advocating for women, she’s active in the Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (NT) and with Business and Professional Women (BPW) International, serving previously as Vice President (Policy) on the BPW national board.

A graduate of the Australian Institute for Company Directors, she’s also an alumna of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and Cornell University Executive Women in Leadership program.

Ordinary Member, cAROLE sHAW

Ordinary Member, cAROLE sHAW

Carole is a visionary executive and strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the national and international arena. Developing high level strategies for non-profit management, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, fundraising and grant making. With a focus on Human Rights and Gender Equality skilled in Gender Policy, International Relations, International Policy, Nonprofit Organisations, Government, Program Evaluation, Training and Development and Grass Roots Activism. Works within an intersectional human rights framework to support the capacity of national organisations to engage and advocate for social justice, equity and empowerment of women and girls. A thought leader in movement building to advance the rights of women and girls, ensure gender-inclusive policies and financing, and justice, and address structural barriers to women’s access to resources and advancement.

PAST Chair, Roselynne Anderson (Vale)

PAST Chair, Roselynne Anderson (Vale)

An educator with 45 years experience in Australia and New Zealand.  Roselynne is the National President of the Association of Women Educators (AWE) and has been a member for over twenty years, involved in AWE Brisbane Branch and National Executive in a range of voluntary positions. In this role, Roselynne advocates strongly for the local, state, national and international issues affecting women and girls in education.  Roselynne, in her employment, is a Special School Principal funded to be the full time President of the Queensland Association of Special Education Leaders (QASEL). She holds membership of a number of professional associations and organisations, and is an inaugural Board member of the Australian Special Education Principals Association (ASEPA) representing special education issues for Queensland on the national and international agenda. Roselynne’s diverse experiences and knowledge of the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) processes and policies are an asset in seeking provision of solutions for Special Education Leaders and the effective implementation of Special Education programs that cater for the diversity of needs across all settings in Queensland.

Roselynne continues to be a member of eS4W economic Security 4 Women, since its’ inception in the early 2000s as a Secretariat under the Federal Minister for Women, representing AWE, but also actively advocating for education as a key factor in ensuring lifelong economic security throughout the life cycle for girls and women.

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