Sue Cripps is Interim Chief Executive Officer of Women’s Community Shelters and a highly respected leader in the human services and housing sectors, with more than two decades of experience leading organisations, driving systems change and developing innovative responses to homelessness and domestic and family violence.

Sue joined Women’s Community Shelters in 2019 and has held a number of senior leadership roles, most recently as Director of Housing. She has played a significant role in strengthening and expanding WCS’s housing response, working to develop innovative models of safe and sustainable accommodation for women and children experiencing homelessness and domestic and family violence.

Prior to joining WCS, Sue was the founding CEO of Homelessness NSW and held senior leadership positions across the community and housing sectors. Her extensive experience spans service delivery, sector development, advocacy, and systems change. In 2011, Sue was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to examine international approaches to strengthening service integration and improving outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

As Interim CEO, Sue brings deep sector expertise, strong relationships and a longstanding commitment to improving outcomes for women and children. She is focused on building on WCS’s work and impact, working alongside the Shelter Network, partners and communities to strengthen the response to homelessness and domestic and family violence and ensure more women and children can access safety, stability and the opportunity to rebuild their lives.

As employee number two in the WCS network, Lieske’s role has evolved alongside the organisation’s growth, from Assistant to the CEO in the early beginnings of Women’s Community Shelters, through to Shelter Network Manager, Director of Capacity and Operations, and now supporting the Senior Leadership Team as Director of Executive Support.

Lieske’s current role focuses on continuous quality improvement through the Australian Service Excellence Standards, as well as supporting WCS’s interstate expansion, beginning with Victoria.

Her previous experience includes roles across the not-for-profit and corporate sectors in Sydney, London and Hong Kong.

After completing a Master of Arts in Education Julia has taught in a variety of high school settings in New York City and Sydney with students from a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities. She has focused on students who have been underserved by traditional models of education and who often face multiple barriers to achieving their potential. She brings a passion for well-being and social justice education to her operational role at Women’s Community Shelters.

Julia manages the implementation of the Walk the Talk program, serving as the connector for students and shelters, through their service-learning journey with WCS.

In addition to extensive experience in schools, Julia also brings business, branding and fundraising experience to the role and worked at a senior level for major advertising agencies at a national and global level.

Dannielle Miller OAM is the Director of Education and Special Projects at Women’s Community Shelters, where she leads the development and delivery of Walk the Talk, an innovative service-learning program that strengthens young people’s understanding of domestic and family violence and connects them with local frontline services.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience in adolescent education, she brings deep expertise from her work as co-founder and CEO of Enlighten Education, Australia’s leading provider of in-school wellbeing and respectful-relationships programs. She has designed and delivered national domestic and family violence literacy training for organisations including KPMG, Lendlease, Temple & Webster, Sydney Airport and Barry Nilsson Lawyers.

Dannielle is also an award-winning author and educator recognised with the Order of Australia Medal for her service to education, women and youth.

Meagan Prabhakar is the Director of Advocacy at Women’s Community Shelters, with over a decade of experience in corporate affairs, communications, advocacy and government relations across politics, the domestic, family and sexual violence sector and the community housing sector.

She has held senior leadership roles including General Manager, Communications and Engagement at Hume Community Housing, Director of Communications and Engagement at the inaugural Federal Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission, and at the national peak body ANROWS.

Meagan is Chair of Full Stop Australia, a national domestic, family and sexual violence organisation providing trauma-specialist support to people impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence.

She brings deep sector knowledge, understanding of the evidence base and legislative landscape as well as extensive networks across government, sector and media at a national level. Drawing on her lived experience of sexual and family violence, Meagan brings an unwavering commitment to ending domestic, family and sexual violence, with a particular focus on ensuring victim-survivors are not overlooked in reform, service design or recovery.