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Judith van Unen – RDAA Chair
Judith is a Business Performance Strategist, owning a variety of businesses and has been a consultant to SMEs, corporations, government departments. She is the founder of JERA International, a not for profit organisation focussing on gender equity. She has extensive lobbying experience for organisations from local government through to federal level and the United Nations, where she has been on the Australian government delegation to CSW on a number of occasions.
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Judith has held numerous national community Board positions, currently being National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), BPW Cooperative and Security for Women (S4W) and recently including Council of Small Business Australia (COSBOA), Business & Professional Women Australia (BPWA) and RDA Victoria. She has worked with projects in developing countries and her personal philosophy has always been one of social commitment and active promotion of the welfare of people in all walks of life. Judith is a member of the National Institute for Governance.
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John Stirk – RDAA Treasurer
John Stirk is a lawyer practising in Alice Springs in central Australia. He has been a Territory Resident for 30 years. He works as a lawyer practising in a broad spectrum of work. He has an interest and experience in governance and restructuring of organisations at all levels of government and works in legislative reviews, with a particular interest in indigenous organisations.
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He and his family have been involved with RDA activities over the last decade. John has held positions as the President of the Northern Territory Law Society and a member of the Law Council of Australia for terms of two and four years respectively.
He is particularly interested in the outcomes that RDA delivers across a range of communities throughout Australia and is interested in developing the links that indigenous Australians can have in achieving the objectives of RDA.
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Norma Pearce – RDAA Secretary
Norma is a trained Special Education teacher and taught children and adolescents with disabilities in both Australia and the United Kingdom for a period of 30 years.
She was involved in the Riding for the Disabled Association in Victoria, Australia from its inception – both at a local level as a volunteer and later at State Level. She was actively involved in the formation of the national body Riding for the Disabled Association of Australia (RDAA), serving on the national executive and was national President for 2 years.
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Norma was Australia’s representative at several FRDI congresses and a member of the working party which prepared the first constitution for the establishment of the Federation of Riding for the Disabled International (FRDI). She was a member of the first Executive Board of FRDI for six years.
Norma has been employed as Executive Director (Secretary) of FRDI for 12 years until her retirement earlier this year.
Other interests include recreational activities for people with disabilities; community planned activity groups and music.
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Rosemary Norman-Hill (Qld) – RDAA Director
Rosemary has been involved in community based organisations since 1997 and is currently the Director of Kirrawe Indigenous Corporation on the Gold Coast. Her experience includes policy development for federal government and lobbying politicians and government in indigenous child and family welfare matters. Rosemary holds a Bach Social Science, Dip Management, Dip Applied Science, Cert IV Business (Governance), Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment, Cert IV Human & Community Services.
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Jeanne Stratford– RDAA Director
Jeanne spent 34 years in the education of students with disabilities, working in consultancy positions in charge of funding and grants allocations. Her experience includes curriculum adaptation, policy development, staff training, developing OHS codes of practice, managing budgets, and extensive fundraising for major projects for people with disabilities (e.g. a hydrotherapy centre). Jeanne holds a Diploma of Teaching and was a school principal for 18 years.
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Carol Bradley (SA) – RDAA Director
Carol served as a member of the RDA SA Board for many years, retiring 18 months ago. She has extensive experience working with not-for-profit companies and in the corporate sector. She is currently employed as an employment consultant for people with disabilities and is a carer for a family member with a disability (a former rider with RDA). Carol holds a PhD in Sociology, Cert IV Training & Assessment, Cert IV Viticulture and is a member if the Institute of HR and Training (UK). She also owns and operates a boutique shiraz vineyard in the McLaren Vale Wine Region producing gold medal winning wines.
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Board Member Roles & Responsibilities
- Judith van Unen - Chair
- John Stirk - Treasurer
- Norma Pearce - Secretary
- Riding for the Disabled Association South Australia Inc.
- Tasmanian Riding for the Disabled Association Inc.
- Riding for the Disabled Association RDA NT Inc.
- Riding for the Disabled Association of ACT. Inc.
- Riding for the Disabled Association of Victoria
- Riding for Disabled Association of Queensland Inc.
- Riding for the Disabled Association of Western Australia
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