Our Board

In 2023, the Education Equity Alliance Ltd incorporated as a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. It obtained DGR status in May 2024.

Chris Schulz

Chair

Chris spent more than thirty years as a partner at Allens, one of Australia’s leading commercial law firms, where he mainly practised Environmental Law. After retiring from full time work in 2017, he spent five years as a consultant to Allens and other organisations. He was also a director at Earthwatch Institute for nine years and has been on the Board of Ganbina Inc since 2018. He feels very strongly the we have a collective responsibility to ensure that every child has access to the best possible education.

Angela Gibbs

Director

Ange works as a lawyer and strategic advisor to Traditional Owner groups across Australia. Prior to this, she spent 7 years as a classroom teacher and school leader in both primary and secondary schools across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Victoria, specialising in special education. Ange holds double degrees in Law (Hons) and Commerce, and is undertaking a Master of Laws, all from the University of Melbourne. She also holds a Master of Teaching and has undertaken studies at the London School of Economics. She has been a director on a number of not-for-profit boards. Ange is passionate about creating a fair and inclusive society where educational equity is a given, not an aspiration. When not working, Ange loves trail-running with her kelpie, yoga and travelling.

Chris Deitch

Director

Chris taught at Numurkah Secondary College, before taking on the role of Leading Teacher - Teaching and Learning. Currently, he is an Assistant Principal at Cranbourne West Secondary College. Across his roles, Chris has worked to increase and diversify the educational opportunities his students had access to, including those from regional contexts and disadvantaged backgrounds.

Lachlann Carter

Director

Lachlann has extensive experience across the education and not-for-profit sectors. A former primary school teacher, he is co-founder and was for 10 years CEO of 100 Story Building, a not-for-profit organisation in Melbourne supporting the development of creative literacy skills and understandings. Lachlann is a member of the Community Leadership Council of the Investment Dialogue for Australia’s Children, a Board Member of PETAA, Vice President of Whitfield State School, and was a founding board member of SENVIC.

Michelle Parker

Director

Michelle started her education journey in Mooroopna (Vic), where she worked for 3 years as a teacher and leader in the English and Student Voice spaces. She is now in her 5th year of working at Templestowe College, a progressive state school in Northeast Melbourne that challenges the status quo. Her current role is Learning Specialist - Director of English, Humanities and Literacy, in which she manages learning areas whilst also leading the implementation of Project Based Learning across the school.

Our Team

Tim Warwick

Founder, CEO & Board Member

Tim is the Founder of the Alliance. Previously, he has been a secondary school teacher, a primary school Principal of a low-SES school in Regional Victoria, and a project manager for the Department of Education. Tim is passionate about putting the lived experiences of students and teachers at the centre of decision-making, and about ensuring there are opportunities for them to meaningfully collaborate to improve education.

Ange Barry

Policy & Collective Impact Lead

Ange Barry is a collaborative, innovative thinker and developer of state, national and global strategies within complex policy environments based on evidence, insight and lived experiences. A respected leader in bringing together political, government, corporate and community agendas with community aspirations to create collaborative, sustainable and measurable outcomes, across Victorian, Australian and Global settings including within LGBTIQA+, First Nations, multi-cultural, multi-faith, children and youth, women, disability and geographically impacted communities. Ange maintains a laser focus on understanding the space we can succeed within and manages expectations with empathy and authenticity accordingly to ensure satisfying outcomes for complex stakeholders.

Zinny Hunt

Student Voice Support Officer

Zinny's role with the Alliance as Student Voice Support Officer is to empower students to give their insights into work the Alliance does. Throughout his primary and high school journey he changed schools over a dozen times while experiencing many challenging situations, and he brings this understanding and lived experience to the works he does now. He also is passionate about youth advocacy and works with Prevention United, Uniting, The Black Dog Institute as a Youth Advisor. Zinny believes that taking a holistic approach to our young people is the best way to get equitable outcomes both inside and outside of school.

Expert Advisory Group

The Board receives expert strategic advice and guidance from its Expert Advisory Group, all members of which have extensive experience leading system-change, alliance-building and in education.

Jane Hunt

Expert Advisor

Jane Hunt is an innovative and results-driven social change leader who has deep expertise in tackling complex social issues. She is a leading thinker and practitioner in social entrepreneurship and systemic change initiatives. Jane is driven to change and create the conditions that enable an equitable thriving society. Her impactful contribution spans over 20 years at CEO, Executive and Board level and across multiple sectors and issues. She has been at the forefront of social innovation in areas that focus on children and families, women’s economic participation, homelessness and youth initiatives. She has mobilised leaders across Government, business, philanthropy and the for-benefit sectors to join collaborative efforts to address inequity.

Kerry Graham

Expert Advisor

Kerry's social leadership spans 25 years. Her purpose is to evolve the way change happens in Australia for children and young people. In pursuit of this purpose, Kerry has learnt how the systems and conditions that support the youth can be shifted and transformed. She has gained this learning through leadership and governance in numerous roles where she has innovated, led, inspired, and had a major impact on young people and the organisations that surround them. Kerry’s yearning for more equitable and just systems culminated in her co-founding Collaboration for Impact in 2014 - a non-profit intermediary and Australia’s leading organisation for enabling people to tackle complex problems through systems change and collaboration. Currently Kerry serves as: Co-Founder & Director of Collaboration for Impact; Founder and Executive Director of the Accountable Futures Collective; Senior Associate with global systems change non-profit, the Collective Change Lab; and Co-Convenor of the Healing Systems Collective.

Gina Cicerone

Expert Advisor

Gina is the CEO of the Fair Education Alliance, a coalition of 300 cross-sector organisations in England working to ensure all children thrive, regardless of their socio-economic background. She previously led Teach First’s Innovation Unit, supporting social entrepreneurs to tackle educational inequity, and founded Fundación VASE, a social enterprise in Ecuador for international youth social action. She holds a Master’s in International Development from the London School of Economics and completed a Churchill Fellowship in Australia, the USA and Canada researching systems and community centred-change. She is the Chair of Trustees for the OVO Energy Foundation and Advisor for Big Education Multi-Academy Trust.