With extensive experience in corporate social sustainability, public advocacy, communications and skilled workplace volunteering, Kirsten has a proven career history of creating and implementing innovative strategies that deliver impactful, measurable outcomes.

In April 2022, Kirsten joined the team at Stockland in the role of Social Sustainability Manager – Affordability and Inclusion to play a lead role in building Stockland’s positioning, strategy and capability around affordability and housing, accessibility, and economic inclusion. Previously she headed Lendlease’s shared-value initiative, FutureSteps, which was aimed at addressing homelessness and rising levels of housing stress in Australia.

In addition to her extensive experience within the property industry, Kirsten has delivered a number of social sustainability projects throughout Australia including the establishment of training, education and employment opportunities for individuals facing economic hardship.

Amelia is Associate Professor in Law at UNSW, where she teaches and researches in planning and urban governance.

She has degrees in Architecture (UWA), City Policy (Murdoch) and Law (Oxford, Harvard, ANU) and professional experience in planning, housing, transport and public interest environmental law. Amelia’s research centres on frameworks for decision-making in contemporary cities – who gets to have a say, and how – and the ways in which those frameworks might contribute to social and environmental justice.

Poppy has worked in the housing sector for over 15 years and has served on the board of Shelter NSW since 2016. Poppy currently works in energy consumer policy in the Office of Energy and Climate Change, where she is advising on an equitable transition to renewable energy. In the past, Poppy has held housing policy positions at WSP, where she specialised in social and affordable housing and also worked on wider social sustainability projects; at Mission Australia Housing; CHIA NSW; and the NSW Land and Housing Corporation. She holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and a Bachelor of Arts (Architecture).