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Community Engagement Manager
Ellen grew up on the lands of the Turrbal people in South East Queensland and moved to northern Tasmania in late 2017. Ellen is a Queer and disabled woman based in Launceston, and has a professional background in community development, community engagement and disability advocacy.
Ellen first became involved with Health Consumers Tasmania after a lived experience of young onset bowel cancer in 2020. At this time, she became involved in community consultations through Health Consumers Tasmania and then through various committees and groups as a consumer representative, including on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) Community Advisory Council.
Ellen is deeply passionate about consumers and community being the leaders of change and in the importance of valuing lived experience. She brings this passion and her own lived experience to her role with Health Consumers Tasmania in the training and broader community engagement work that she undertakes as the Community Engagement Manager.