Kristin Stubbins of Galston AM was honoured for vital service to the financial sector, to women, and to the neighborhood.

She 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 women and is a founding member and Chair of Women for Change.

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

Kristin sits on a number of 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 within the innovation class.

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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 Day Honours – AM for Change Maker on the end of 1984, she took up a Senior Journalist position with Cumberland Newspapers, primarily based 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 labored for 30 years covering all totally different mastheads, together with Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and at last Hills Shire Times for the last 17 of those years. Bev’s passion has always been local people journalism. She says “As a journalist, I have always seen it as my job to inform, encourage and contain. I am a passionate advocate for organisations and folks making a distinction to the world round them. Connectedness is so essential to the health of an individual but in addition to a group, no matter how small or large.