Our People
QCC is powered by people. Our supporters and member groups are at the heart of all our work. The staff and executive team are proud to work on their behalf to achieve our vision.
QCC is powered by people. Our supporters and member groups are at the heart of all our work. The staff and executive team are proud to work on their behalf to achieve our vision.
QCC has a small team of dedicated staff who lead campaigns, engage with the community, liaise with governments and support our member groups.
Dave is an experienced campaigner and community organiser who has spent 20+ years organising for social change in Queensland. He has been the Director of Queensland Conservation Council since 2021, and loves to push Queensland to be a climate and biodiversity leader, not a laggard. He was the founding lead organiser of the Queensland Community Alliance, and before that has worked as a union, human rights and pro-democracy campaigner and a political advisor. Dave's family have worked for generations to protect Queensland's natural wonders as environmental activists. He is committed to building people power to change Queensland and lives in Brisbane with his partner and two kids.
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As Deputy Director at Queensland Conservation Council, Anthony has responsibility for the organisation's climate and nature campaigns, as well as its work in fundraising and communications.A strategic leader with extensive experience in environmental campaigning and communications, Anthony has more than eight years of experience in leadership roles across the movement. Anthony has worked closely with conservation groups, First Nations communities, and values-aligned businesses across the country on campaigns around environmental law reform & litigation, nature conservation, and ethical divestment. Prior to joining the environment sector, Anthony was a journalist at Queensland’s Courier-Mail covering finance and business.
Jenny is QCC’s Climate Campaigner. She has expertise in climate and environmental policy along with a passion for building coalitions to enact change. Jenny experience working for government, environmental NGOs, and most recently for the World Bank where she developed targeted interventions and national GHG transition plans to enhance climate ambition across the transport sector.
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Hayley's role within the Queensland Conservation Council is Volunteer Coordinator and Nature Organiser, responsible for engaging and organising volunteers to increase capacity across QCC as well as organiser volunteers and supporters around our national parks for life campaign. Hayley has been working and volunteering in community organising roles within climate and environment campaigns for the last 9 years as well as having a background in ecology and Landcare. Previously she worked with Lock the Gate as a Brisbane Community Organiser and 350.org as QLD university divestment coordinator.
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Nigel Parratt, is QCC's Water Officer. Nigel was the QCC Rivers Project Officer from 2005 until 2013 and has worked for WWF-Australia for the last 7 years has recently returned to QCC as the new Water Policy Officer, which is funded by the Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water for the next 3 years.
Simona Holzer is Queensland Conservation Council’s Climate Mobiliser, helping people take action on climate through our Climate Action Now campaign. Simona is passionate about bringing people together to grow the movement for climate action. Living in Switzerland she worked for the ‘Alpine Initiative’, an organisation advocating for the protection of the alpine environment and for the foodsharing movement, aiming to reduce commercial food waste. She has a background in political and environmental science with a focus on renewable energy systems.
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Jen’s role with the Queensland Conservation Council is Climate Organiser. She has had diverse experiences over her career, including in law, the public service, community and project development, policy and advocacy. She has worked with Government, Indigenous led organisations, community NGOs and faith-based organisations, in Victoria, the ACT, NT and across Queensland.
She now lives on Turrbal and Yuggera country in Brisbane. She loves being out amongst nature and is passionate about the health and flourishing of both human and non-human life.
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Jen’s new role as Organising Coordinator is focused on bringing an organising approach to how we work together across QCC’s member groups. She has over 20 years’ experience in the union movement and in community organising. Jen has worked with a broad range of community organisations, faith organisations and unions to help identify and nurture leadership potential and build collaborative power to run campaigns for long lasting change. She co-founded the Sydney Alliance which is a broad-based coalition of civil sector organisations building relationships across diversity to act together for the common good. Jen is passionate about building power for justice, nature and our climate.
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Natalie joins QCC as the Nature Campaigner, leading the land clearing campaign and the Queensland Forests Alliance. Natalie is an ecologist with over 10 years experience in ecological assessments and monitoring, project management, community engagement, campaigning, advocacy and events. Natalie has previously worked for multi-national consulting companies, environmental charities and recently the Sunshine Coast Environment Council.
As Philanthropy Manager at Queensland Conservation Council, Nina is responsible for growing our network of supporters from Nature Guardians to Philanthropists, Trusts and Foundations. She joins us from the Karrkad Kanjdji Trust (an Indigenous-led conservation organisation) where she spent five years developing her fundraising expertise and helping grow the organisation alongside her team.
Prior to working in conservation, Nina was a primary teacher, who worked in Naarm, Berlin and Kabulwarnamyo in West Arnhem Land. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Aboriginal Studies and is focussed on decolonising practices.
Cass is QCC’s all-rounder who comes with years of experience in administration and has wide-ranging skills in all things organisational. Her role includes office management, supporting event logistics, communications, supporting HR processes and more. Cass has recently been working her way through an undergraduate Health Science Degree at The University of Queensland and is passionate about the health of people, the planet, and all the creatures we share it with.
Campaigning to at least double Queensland’s protected area system by 2030, Nicky works with Queenslanders from all walks of life to achieve this. Passion to ensure we as a community leave a positive legacy for future generations underpins her approach.
A former journalist on the Sunshine Coast, Nicky also brings experience from private forestry and agroforestry, tertiary teaching in sustainability and natural resource management, and forest conservation campaigning.
Tim has worked for over fifteen years in a wide variety of digital roles including website content, digital marketing, communications, and social media. This is Tim's first role in the Environment sector after working in higher and further education.
As the Digital Communications Specialist for QCC, Tim will help to engage our existing audiences and find ways to reach new ones through email, websites, and social media.
After spending the last ten years working in the UK, he has moved back to Brisbane with his wife and 4 young children, swapping beanies and scarves for sunscreen and thongs.
QCC’s Executive Committee (often called a “board”) is responsible for overseeing the strategic and financial direction of the organisation. The QCC Executive is made up of volunteers who are elected annually by our member groups.
You can read more about the function and structure of The Executive under How We Work.
Lucy is passionate about the role that Queensland Conservation Council plays in our movement and is committed to continuing to help us succeed. She has been involved with the Cairns and Far North Environment for a number of years, and is currently working as Director. She is deeply interested in regional Queensland and the important role that regional bodies play in helping protect our environment. Having lived in Far North Queensland for the majority of her life, she brings an important perspective to our organisation. She deeply understand the community, the challenges that Far North Queensland faces as well as the history of Cairns And Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) and its role there. Lucy brings community organising and campaigning skills, and is particularly interested in the role that QCC and CAFNEC have to play in combating and adapting to climate change in regional communities.
Terry has been a financial planner since 1989 and is the director of Ethical Investment Advisers, a company specialising in ethical investment. He is Chair of the Ethical Advisers Co-op which is the peak body for ethical advisers around Australia. Terry has previously been facilitator and chair of Alternative To Violence Project (Qld), a group dedicated to conflict resolution, and has also previously been Chair of Jacaranda House, a social housing company. He is involved, through personal investment or for clients, in 6 Body Corp committees in which he is the secretary or chair.
Emily is a community organiser with over 5 years experience and training building the climate, nature and environment movements. She has good relationships with activists across South East Queensland and New South Wales, and an appreciation of working with regional Queenslanders in our movement. Emily believes it is of fundamental importance that there be tight coordination and strategic direction of the environment movement in Queensland, as we are currently losing increasing amounts of natural habitats and climate impacts start to worsen across our state.
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Stephanie is a local government manager with more than 14 years’ experience. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing and Public Relations) from Queensland University of Technology and certification in change management.
Throughout her career, Stephanie has worked in the consulting, education and local government sectors in areas spanning community consultation and stakeholder engagement; corporate communication; governance; business improvement; and operations.
Stephanie is passionate about the environment, conservation and sustainability. She’s a keen hiker, camper and regular visitor to our national parks and loves growing fruit and veggies from her home in Brisbane.
Crystal has been involved with the North Queensland Conservation Council since 2017 and has been working as Coordinator since 2021 and is passionate about developing a stronger connection between the statewide environment movement and regional Queenslanders.
Crystal has a deep interest in good governance, healthy organisational culture, strong community connections and supporting emerging leaders and brings a unique understanding of their region’s issues and opportunities, and strong relationships with other North Queensland environment groups.
Crystal has undergone community organising training with the Queensland Community Alliance, which has reinforced their understanding of the importance of broad-based community organising.
Peter has been involved in many environmental campaigns and activities over the past 20 years. Peter managed CJPC Brisbane’s involvement in the Cool Communities project in 2003 and 2004 and has been involved in land clearing campaigns and a variety of climate groups including Stop Adani Brisbane. Peter has a particular interest in supporting climate activism of Torres Strait Islanders and Pacifica peoples.