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

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

Her particular focus has been on mental well being and supporting girls 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 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 in the Australia Financial Review’s ‘100 Women of Influence’, having been nominated in the innovation class.

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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 on the end of 1984, she took up a Senior Journalist place with Cumberland Newspapers, 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 covering all different mastheads, including Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and at last Hills Shire Times for the last 17 of those years. Bev’s ardour has at all times been area people journalism. She says “As a journalist, I really have always seen it as my job to inform, inspire and involve. Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker am a passionate advocate for organisations and folks making a distinction to the world around them. Connectedness is so important to the health of a person but also to a group, irrespective of how small or giant.