About
Our Team
Management Committee
Our Management Committee are all volunteers and we greatly value the dedication and expertise they bring to the governance of the organisation.
Carly Hanson
President
Carly Hanson is a qualified Lawyer and Trainer with over 15 years’ experience in the legal, not-for-profit and tertiary education sectors. Carly’s current role is Sector Sustainability Coordinator with Community Legal Centres Queensland, where she supports community legal centres to provide effective, high quality services to their communities by facilitating professional development opportunities, undertaking projects to promote innovation and collaboration, and strengthening governance, quality assurance and legal practice risk management frameworks. Carly is passionate about providing holistic support to people experiencing disadvantage and advocating for the rights of women and pregnant people.
Selvin Kwong
Diploma of Accounting
Treasurer
Selvin Kwong is a community worker and researcher with experience in financial inclusion, welfare reform, labour rights and women’s equity. Within the women’s sector, she has held roles advocating for and supporting women around domestic and sexual violence, and women’s rights at work. She has also worked within community finance and other non-profit organisations pursuing sustainable development and economic justice within Australia and the Asia Pacific. She holds a Diploma of Accounting and is passionate about furthering the financial capacity and well-being of women on both individual and organisational levels.
Dr Claire Mohr
MSSB FRACGP
Secretary
Claire Mohr is a GP working at Victoria Point and enjoys providing all aspects of care to a wide range of patients. She also works for Marie Stopes Australia providing reproductive health services in the Brisbane area. She has a keen interest in promoting access for women to reproductive health options.
Malathi Kanagasabapathy
General Committee Member
Mal has spent the last 25+ years working across government, non-government and international sectors. A humanitarian who is dedicated to supporting those who are less fortunate, isolated, discriminated against. She holds Masters in Health Sciences and has established herself as an experienced Senior Executive.
Not afraid to be challenged, her work took her to Nepal, New York, Malaysia and Tanzania.
Tamsin Gane
General Committee Member
Tamsin is a senior procurement manager with extensive experience of category management, supplier relationship management, sustainable procurement and corporate social responsibility. She has a first class degree in Supply Chain Management and is CIPS qualified. She has over 20 years procurement and supply chain experience in a range of multi-national organisations and in a range of industries.
Kath Kerr
General Committee Member
Kath is a Social Worker and Legal Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in the legal and community sector responses to domestic and family violence. Kath has worked providing frontline responses, as well as contributing to research, education, and policy. Her research has focused on the impacts of abortion access barriers on domestic violence victim-survivors, and the impacts of racism on systemic responses to domestic and family violence. Kath was a finalist for the 2019 Dame Quentin Bryce Domestic Violence Prevention Advocate Award. She has collaborated with Children by Choice in their research into reproductive coercion, and has been a proud supporter of the organisation and their goals for many years.
Volunteers
We have a team of volunteers who regularly commit their time and energy to helping us carry out the work of Children by Choice, in areas including counselling support work, policy and resource reviews, event support, and advocacy work. We’re incredibly grateful for all the support they continue to offer our staff and clients. If you’d like to join them, you can fill out an application form over here.
Student Placements
We love to accept university student placements where possible. Due to our limited capacity, only third or fourth-year students in Social Work, Human Services or Psychology will be considered for counselling team placements. Depending on capacity, we may also accept students from Public Health, Communications, or related fields, for non-counselling placements. You will also need to work from or be familiar with a feminist framework, and be pro-choice. If you are interested in doing a placement with us, please contact us.
Our Patrons
Children by Choice is proud to have the support of our three patrons – Senator Larissa Waters, and former Senator Sue Boyce and Claire Moore.Their ongoing support of the work and aims of Children by Choice is invaluable.
Claire Moore
Claire Moore is a former ALP Senator for Queensland. Claire is very active in the community, playing an active role in groups like Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and was a founding member of both the Australian Workers Heritage Centre and Emily’s List.
Sue Boyce
Sue Boyce is a former Liberal Senator for Queensland. Sue has a background in journalism and the manufacturing industry, and is very committed to improving the political participation of women. She is a disability advocate and a past president of the Down Syndrome Association of Queensland (DSAQ), and of Lifeways Inc., a Queensland organisation designed to assist ageing parents to plan for the long-term future of their adult child with a disability. Sue is also a past president of the Liberal Women’s Council (Qld).
Senator Larissa Waters
Larissa Waters became Queensland’s first Greens senator to the Federal Parliament at the 2010 federal election. Larissa’s background is in environmental law, where she spent eight years practising in the community sector. Her policy portfolio areas for the Greens while in parliament included environment and biodiversity; women; resources, mining and coal seam gas. She was also a Deputy Leader of the Greens during her time in parliament.
