Helena Hassani
Executive Director, Boland Parwaz

She is a human rights advocate and campaigner for the prevention of child and forced marriage and family violence. Helena is the recipient of the Echoing Green Fellowship 2024 working towards ending child and forced marriage in Australia and globally.

Helena was a delegate to the United Nations in Geneva for the Annual Tripartite Consultation on Resettlement in 2023. She has also been an NGO delegate to the United National recently in March 2024 in New York for the Consultation on the Status of Women 68^th Conference. She is a silver medal winner of the Women Changing the World Award 2024 for the Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Impact category. Helena has significant experience in family violence and modern slavery particularly forced marriage. 

Currently Helena is the Director of Boland Parwaz PTY LTD which is working towards a future without child and forced marriage. She is one the multilingual female facilitators of Men’s Behaviour Change Program for Intouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence in Victoria. Helena is a research assistant for the Anti-Slavery Australia at the University of Technology Sydney and the Modern Slavery Lead at the Mercy Foundation.

Lucy Gregory

CEO, Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast

Lucy Gregory is the CEO of the Domestic Violence Prevention Centre in the Gold Coast. (DVPC GC) DVPC GC provides specialist domestic and family violence service and support to adults, children and young people who have experienced DFV and to those who use violence. DVPC also leads the Gold Coast Domestic Violence integrated Response, which has been in operation for over 25 years.

Lucy has had the honour of working in the domestic and family violence space for almost 20 years, including in the ACT, Victoria and Queensland in both direct client service delivery and program and policy development. Lucy previously worked for Family Safety Victoria and was responsible for the practice and operational guidance for the state-wide The Orange Door Network in Victoria. Highlights of Lucy’s career include being Senior Advisor to Rosie Batty, supporting the establishment of the Victim Survivor Advisory Council in Victoria and working on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Lucy is a qualified lawyer and sociologist and is committed to ending violence against women and girls globally.

Karima El Korri

Resident Coordinator Malaysia, United Nations

Ms. Karima El Korri is the Resident Coordinator in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. She has more than 20 years of international development experience within the United Nations and externally. Within the Organization, she most recently led the 2030 Agenda division at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), a role she assumed after managing the population and development portfolio and pioneering the work of the Commission on international migration, population ageing, and youth empowerment.

Before that, she served as a regional advisor on governance and project coordinator at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Prior to joining the United Nations, Ms. El Korri worked in Morocco as a lecturer at the Al-Akhawayn University as well as with a think-tank engaging with government, civil society, the private sector, academia, youth, and international organizations on development issues in the country.

Richie Hardcore

Activist and Educator - Family and Sexual Violence Prevention

Richie Hardcore is a public speaker, consultant, educator and advocate. His work discusses masculinity, mental health, pornography, sex and consent and how we can end sexual and domestic violence.

He has a Masters's degree in Sociology, is a White Ribbon New Zealand ambassador, and is part of the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development’s ‘Change is Possible’ anti-domestic violence campaign. His work has been featured regularly in the media and was recently part of the SBS Australia documentary series “Asking For It”. He was a multiple New Zealand champion in Muay Thai, and now he has retired from fighting is a coach and trainer. Through his charitable trust he uses Muay Thai and Kickboxing as part of a mentoring program for people who have left the criminal justice system, are in alternative education or alcohol and drug rehabilitation.

Lorraine Finlay

Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission

Lorraine Finlay is the Human Rights Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission.  In this role Lorraine leads the work of the Commission in areas including modern slavery, asylum seekers and refugees, business & human rights, and technology & human rights.

Prior to joining the Commission, Lorraine has worked as a lawyer and academic specializing in human rights and public law.  She holds a dual Masters in Law from New York University and the National University of Singapore, where she studied as a Singapura Scholar.  Her past roles have included working as the Senior Human Trafficking Specialist with the Australian Mission to ASEAN, an academic at Murdoch University, and a State Prosecutor with the WA DPP. 

Naomi Pfitzner

Deputy Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre

Dr Naomi Pfitzner is Deputy Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and a Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University.

Naomi is also a Associate Investigator on an ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women awarded in 2023. Naomi has extensive research experience in family violence prevention and response. She conducts research in the area of family violence, gender, family studies, social policy and law. Her work has a key focus on the primary prevention of family violence, respectful relationships education and gender equality.