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Lived Experience Advisory BoardThe Lived Experience Advisory Board are a group of community members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who provide advice and feedback regarding HAES Australia’s activities, plans and policies. The Lived Experience Advisory Board meet four times a year, or as needed, and members are paid for their contributions. |
Elissa Jenkins
Elissa manages a rare and exquisitely painful eye disease, Scleritis. To help cope with the daily fight to save her eyesight, she actively seeks joy in everyday life and promotes this #EverydayJoy on both Instagram and Facebook. She lives by the sea on Bribie Island in Queensland. She regularly enjoys walks to visit the local dugongs, dolphins and seabirds. She enjoys swimming in the sea and in her lap pool at home. |
Ruth Leach
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Edith Hopper |
Jenny Lee
Her recent autoethnographic publications include ‘“You will face discrimination”: Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession’ in the Fat Studies Journal (2020) and ‘Stigma in practice: Barriers to health for fat women’ with Dr Cat Pausé in Frontiers of Psychology (2016). She is also queer and fat, and has several 'invisible' disabilities. |
Dave Peters |