Kristin Stubbins of Galston AM was honoured for important service to the monetary sector, to ladies, and to the neighborhood.

She has worked with PwC for 25 years and has been a companion for 18 years.

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

Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker 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 including 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 within 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 in 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 position with Cumberland Newspapers, primarily based on the Parramatta Advertiser. She has since labored 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 labored for 30 years masking all totally different mastheads, together with Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and at last 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 all the time seen it as my job to inform, encourage and involve. I am a passionate advocate for organisations and folks making a difference to the world around them. Connectedness is so essential to the health of a person but in addition to a neighborhood, irrespective of how small or large.