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.
Dr Nicola Sheeran
BPsych(Hons), PhD(Clinical Psychology)
President
Dr Nicola Sheeran is a Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer. Her research has looked at the transition to motherhood and long term outcomes for adolescent mothers, communication between adolescent mothers and health professionals, factors affecting service utilisation and the relationship between stereotypes/attitudes of adolescent mothers and outcomes in Australian. Nicola also has worked as a community educator at Children by Choice and has 10 year experience providing non-directive unplanned pregnancy counselling.
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.
Carmen Seaby
BA / BJ
Secretary
Carmen Seaby has a degree in Women’s Studies and a long-time commitment to women’s reproductive health and the goals of Children by Choice. Her career in administration has taken her into the private and not-for-profit sector in both the UK and Australia.
Dr Claire Mohr
MSSB FRACGP
Committee Member
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.
Carly Hanson
LLB, B.Jus, GradDipLegPrac
Committee Member
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.
Fiona Martin
Committee Member
Fiona is a Registered Nurse and Midwife who practices with a pro-choice ethos founded on the premise that every person has the right to choose what happens to and within their own body. Fiona‘s professional interests have always been reproductive health care and midwifery and they believe that as a community we must protect and support every person’s right to reproductive autonomy. In their current role Fiona provides peri-operative nursing care to people accessing termination of pregnancy.
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.
