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Firstdraft Board

Yuki Kawakami

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Board Member

Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer who is interested in socially inclusive community-led projects and supporting career-pathway opportunities for young people in the arts. She is currently working as the Tertiary and Young Adults Programs Producer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2019, she was assistant curator of the Gallery's major exhibition Japan supernatural and was also the creative producer of its Sydney Festival program, Night parade of one hundred goblins. In 2017, she was awarded the Edmund Capon Fellowship to research youth engagement programs in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She is passionate about ethical leadership practices in mentorship and working with artists and performers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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Amanda Dobbie
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Amanda Dobbie
Board Member

Amanda is a seasoned corporate executive with experience spanning the finance, technology, legal and not for profit sectors. She is passionate about assisting underrepresented groups to establish their careers.

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Bill Dunbar
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Bill Dunbar
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Bill Dunbar is an infrastructure and property professional, creative writer and cultural advisor with 25-years’ experience in the public and private sectors across Australia and globally.

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Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
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Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
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Katie Belgiorno-Nettis combines experience in corporate IP law with a background in art history and media communications. She is passionate about supporting the arts alongside her own creative pursuits in oil painting.⁠

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Margaret Hancock
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Margaret Hancock
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Margaret Hancock is Senior Curator, Western Sydney Creative at Western Sydney University. She has over 20 years of visual arts, crafts and design writing, curatorial and cultural project management experience.

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Augusta Supple
Chair
Augusta Supple
Chair

Augusta Supple is an award-winning writer, creative producer, and arts and cultural strategist living and working in Western Sydney.

Chair
Dominic Kavanagh
Treasurer
Dominic Kavanagh
Treasurer

Dominic Kavanagh is Associate Director at Martin Browne Contemporary in Paddington and an advisor across public, private and corporate collections.

Treasurer
Kym Elphinstone
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Kym Elphinstone
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Kym Elphinstone is an arts advisor, advocate and the founder of Articulate, Australia's leading cultural agency, and its sister content agency, The Golden Mean.

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PastFirstdraft2020–21 Co-Director, 2020–2021 Chairperson