Our Board of Governance ensures WHIN operates lawfully, ethically and in accordance with the purposes set out in our Constitution.
Board members bring knowledge, expertise and influence relevant to WHIN. All of our Board members have recognised leadership skills and specific understanding of women’s health issues relevant to WHIN’s Strategic Plan.
Dr Cirila (Lilac) Limpangog
Board Chair
Cirila is a transformational leader with over 20 years of experience across community development, academia and the public sector.
Drawing on lived experience and an intersectional feminist lens, she advances equity and social justice through programs, partnerships, organisational change and structural reform. Ciriala consults in these areas and champions holistic health and wellbeing.
Helen Coleman OAM
Deputy Chair
In 2019, Helen was awarded an Order of Australia for service to the community. She has spent much of her professional and personal career working with local communities improving many aspects of neighbourhood and community life.
This includes being the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Nillumbik Shire Council. Helen’s particular strengths are networking and the development of local partnerships.
Felicity Young
Treasurer
Felicity is experienced in working in local and state government on gender equity and the prevention of family violence and for the past 7 years has worked at La Trobe University as a researcher and senior project and operations manager, focusing on reducing gender-based violence. She holds expertise in funding acquisition and administration, stakeholder engagement and knowledge mobilisation.
Felicity strongly advocates for an intersectional feminist approach to public health and addressing gender inequity.
Tracey Cabrie
Tracey is the General Manager of Cabrini Outreach’s Asylum Seeker Health Services. She has a diverse nursing and public health background in women and children’s health, asylum seeker and refugee health, infectious diseases and international health.
For over 20 years she has been working with people seeking asylum, internally displaced populations and refugees both domestically and overseas within not-for-profit community organisations, community health and in the tertiary health sector.
Lucy Farmer
Lucy is a regulatory lawyer with over 10 years of experience in legal and regulatory frameworks. Lucy brings strong governance and compliance expertise to the Board, with experience advising and presenting to boards on regulatory and legal matters.
She has volunteered in roles supporting women affected by family violence, including providing pro bono legal advice through the Caxton Legal Centre and assisting with protection order applications at the National Centre for Domestic Violence.
Rebecca Woodyatt
Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience leading policy and projects in the health sector, local and Commonwealth governments. She brings substantial governance, compliance, strategic planning, risk management and community engagement experience to the board. Rebecca is passionate about fostering environments where women and gender diverse people of all ages, cultures, sexualities and abilities can thrive.
Cara Rose
Cara has over 15 years’ experience working in local government is currently employed as a Gender Equality Advisor at Brimbank City Council. Cara has come to know many WHIN staff through her work. She has a strong personal passion in seeing women and gender diverse people have voice, choice, and power in all aspects of their health, safety and wellbeing.
Zeina Zogheib
Zeina brings over ten years of experience in the community and social justice sector, driven by a deep passion for equity and justice. Working alongside refugee and migrant communities, women and young people at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, she has championed access, inclusion and self-advocacy, turning lived experience into real systems change. Zeina joins the WHIN board with a clear personal mission – to ensure women and gender diverse people have genuine choice, power and the ability to drive change in their own lives and communities.
