Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker

Kristin Stubbins of Galston AM was honoured for significant service to the financial sector, to girls, and to the community.
Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker  has worked with PwC for 25 years and has been a companion for 18 years.

Her special focus has been on psychological well being and supporting ladies and is a founding member and Chair of Women for Change.

She is also Founding Board Director, Mindgardens Neuroscience Network (2019), and Board Member, NeuRa – Neuroscience Research Australia (2018) and Founding Director, of Innowell, (a collaborative challenge between PwC and Sydney University) since 2017. She was additionally a founding participant of the Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia.

Kristin sits on several boards together with the Taronga Conservation Society Australia and is on the Board of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and I of YMCA NSW.

In 2019, Kristin was named in the Australia Financial Review’s ‘100 Women of Influence’, having been nominated in the innovation category.

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Bev Jordan
Bev Jordan studied journalism at Harlow College within the UK.  She achieves a Diploma in Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Journalists. After migrating to Australia at the end of 1984, she took up a Senior Journalist place with Cumberland Newspapers, based mostly on the Parramatta Advertiser. She has since worked on the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and was a lecturer in Journalism at Macleay College in Sydney. Bev returned to Cumberland Newspapers (NewsLocal) and worked for 30 years covering all completely different mastheads, together with Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and eventually Hills Shire Times for the final 17 of these years. Bev’s passion has always been local community journalism.  She says “As a journalist, I even have at all times seen it as my job to inform, encourage and contain.  I am a passionate advocate for organisations and different people making a distinction to the world round them. Connectedness is so necessary to the health of an individual but in addition to a community, no matter how small or giant.