Lightning story

20 Aug 2026
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference | Meeting Room 212
From lived experience to professional practice (Sabrina Davis, Australian Red Cross)
How and why the Keep Calm Committee became resilience advocates for Mount Beauty (Kitty Vigo, Keep Calm Committee)
From bushfire risk to community power: An accidental path into resilience leadership (Maureen Halit, Millgrove Residents Action Group)
Accidental resilience advocate (Hayat Doughan, Al-Emaan Women Organisation)
Turns out my admin superpowers were disaster skills after all (Rebecca Johnson, COORDINARE)
Speakers
Sabrina Davis
Sabrina Davis, Senior Project Officer, Australian Red Cross
Kitty Vigo
Kitty Vigo, Volunteer & Board Chair Mount Beauty Neighbourhood Centre, Keep Calm Committee
Maureen Halit
Maureen Halit, Millgrove Residents Action Group
Rebecca Johnson
Rebecca Johnson, Project Coordinator, Disaster Preparedness and Response, COORDINARE - South Eastern NSW PHN