Karyn Walsh is the Chief Executive Officer of Micah Projects. She has been a determined social justice advocate for over 40 years. Karyn has served in numerous roles including as the president of the Queensland Council of Social Services, as a former executive member of the National Coalition for Gun Control, as a former coordinator of the Domestic Violence Resource Centre, as a member of the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Implementation Council, as co-chair of Queensland's Anti-Poverty Week, as a council member at the Queensland Mental Health Commission and as the Chair of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness.

Tammy Prince-Doyle is a founding member of Family Inclusion Strategies in the Hunter (FISH) and is now the President. She is a parent with lived experience whose children were removed. Tammy worked hard to get them home and her family is proud of what was achieved together.  As part of FISH, she is helping and educating others to be more family inclusive.

Laura Sheenan is the mother of 8 children and 2 stepchildren, and is a parent bereaved by suicide. She has lived and living experience of having children reunified, remaining on long term orders, in foster and kinship care, and in the residential care system. Laura holds a Bachelor of Communication (Public Relations, Media Communication and Creative Writing) and is studying a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours). Laura is interested in postvention support, research and lived experience co-design for parents experiencing Child Safety, and suicide bereavement.

For the last five years, Jenny Whitworth has worked alongside the parents of the Family Inclusion Network (FIN) Southeast Queensland to partner in creating significant systems change. Before that, she worked in Queensland social policy advocacy and project implementation for both government and non-government organisations (including 15 years in the department responsible for ‘child protection’). Jenny has a passion for true early support for families that offers choice and connection – and holds people strongly away from harmful crisis-focused systems.

Jessica Cocks is the National Manager for Service Design, Research, and Innovation at Life Without Barriers. A practicing social worker and researcher, she has led the design of the Family Time Program and focuses on improving family participation in child protection and care systems. Jessica’s research includes parent experiences in child protection, and she completed a Churchill Fellowship in 2018 on family inclusion initiatives in child welfare across multiple countries.

Rachael Dean is the chairperson of the Family Inclusion Network of South Australia, a role she has held for 11 years. She is a parent mentor and owns Family Matters Consultancy, a lived experience consultancy. Rachael participated in designing and implementing Family Time Coaching and works as a lived experience peer worker in Life Without Barriers' Family Reunification Service. She also advises the Minister for Child Protection in South Australia as part of the Direct Experience Group