Who We Are

Our Board

Shaun is a smiling white man in his 30s with grey eyes, brown hair, and a short beard against a backdrop of the ocean.

Shaun Bickley, President
Queensland (2025-2027)

Shaun is an Autistic disability justice activist, storyteller, and athlete. He organised the first city-level ban of subminimum wage in the world (Seattle, 2018) and is the only person to organise subminimum wage bans in two countries (the US and Australia). An international subject matter expert on disability employment policy, Shaun has presented & consulted with legislators and organisations on 3 continents.

He is also a high school dropout with a traumatic brain injury who lives in segregated housing.

Korey Gunnis, Co-Vice President
New South Wales (2025-2027)

Korey Gunnis is a community advocate and grant specialist dedicated to advancing inclusion, accessibility, environmental sustainability, and equal opportunities. Korey supports organisations and initiatives that empower people with disability to thrive in employment, leadership, and community life, and who supports environmental sustainability. With extensive experience in grant and tender writing, project development, and inclusive engagement, Korey helps bring social impact ideas to life. Passionate about fairness and collaboration, Korey works to create lasting change through innovation and shared opportunity.

Sirani McNeill, Co-Vice President
Victoria (2025-2027)

Steph Kassel, Co-Secretary
Director At-Large (2025-2026)

Steph is a multiply-disabled queer woman with lived experience of neurodivergence and acquired disability.

She helps people get their needs met in whatever way she can, and is passionate about helping people thrive and live free of coercion.

Like many women, she has experiences of unpaid care work and subminimum wage.

Being AuDHD, she brings to the director role her broad academic, activist, advocate, corporate, education, public sector, technical, and project/group coordination experience.

Alyce is sitting in her hot pink wheelchair, she is posing in front of a colourful painted wall covered in foliage and flowers. She is wearing a black floral dress, hot pink boots and a pink sparkly jacket. She is living her best life.

Alyce Nelligan, Treasurer
Rural & Regional (2025-2026)

Alyce Nelligan is a disability advocate, political activist, and proud disabled woman. She partners with many community organisations including being part of the Y Connect Advisory Committee for the YWCA. She is also a brand ambassador for the Australian fashion boutique Little Party Dress and Colour My Wheels who manufacture wheel covers. She can be found @princessspeedy on Instagram. Alyce is also a mother to three young children and has also run educational, inclusion and arts workshops for over a decade.

Cameron Bloomfield, Membership Officer
Director At-Large (2025-2026)

Tabitha is a lightly tanned woman with shoulder length brown curly hair, staring straight at the camera, with a serious look on her face. Her arms are half crossed with her chin resting on one curled hand. She has an ACAB tattoo on her wrist and she is wearing a multicolored dress.

Tabitha Lean, Director
South Australia (2025-2027)

I am a formerly incarcerated First Nations woman, living with significant and disabling complex mental illnesses. As a poet, story teller, and abolition activist, I advocate for the dismantling and abolishing of tyrannical and death making systems that have been imposed upon us in this colony. As a story teller, abolition activist and artist, I use my lived prison experience to fight for the total abolition of the prison industrial complex and all of the state forces that enable it.

Our Supports
(Non-voting Advisors to Board)

Dan Hearn, Advisor

Sam is a light-skinned man in his mid-20s with short dark hair, dark eyes, freckles, and a mo.

Sam Ricketts, Advisor

I’m deeply passionate about disability advocacy and have a personal connection to it through my work as a disability support worker. I’m committed to creating a more inclusive world where individuals of all abilities are recognized, supported, and empowered. Through my role, I work directly with individuals to promote independence, challenge stereotypes, and break down barriers, ensuring that everyone has equal opportunities to thrive, regardless of their disability.