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

She has labored with PwC for 25 years and has been a associate for 18 years.

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

She is also 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 also a founding participant of the Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia.

Kristin sits on a number of 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 within the innovation category.

Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker of Bev Jordan

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 at 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 worked for 30 years masking all totally different mastheads, including Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and finally Hills Shire Times for the last 17 of these years. Bev’s passion has at all times been local people journalism. She says “As a journalist, I even have at all times seen it as my job to tell, encourage and contain. I am a passionate advocate for organisations and folks making a difference to the world around them. Connectedness is so important to the well being of an individual but additionally to a neighborhood, regardless of how small or giant.