Kristin Stubbins of Galston AM was honoured for significant service to the monetary sector, to women, and to the community.

She has labored with PwC for 25 years and has been a partner for 18 years.

Her particular focus has been on psychological health and supporting girls and is a founding member and Chair of Women for Change.

She is also Founding Board Director, Mindgardens Neuroscience Network (2019), and Board Member, NeuRa – Neuroscience Research Australia (2018) and Founding Director, of Innowell, (a collaborative venture between PwC and Sydney University) since 2017. She was also a founding participant of the Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia.

Kristin sits on a number of boards together with the Taronga Conservation Society Australia and is on the Board of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and I of YMCA NSW.

In 2019, Kristin was named in the Australia Financial Review’s ‘100 Women of Influence’, having been nominated within the innovation class.

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Bev Jordan

Bev Jordan studied journalism at Harlow College within the UK. Australia Day Honours – AM for Change Maker achieves a Diploma in Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Journalists. After migrating to Australia at the end of 1984, she took up a Senior Journalist place with Cumberland Newspapers, based on the Parramatta Advertiser. She has since labored on the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and was a lecturer in Journalism at Macleay College in Sydney. Bev returned to Cumberland Newspapers (NewsLocal) and worked for 30 years covering all different mastheads, together with Mosman Daily, Mount Druitt Standard and eventually Hills Shire Times for the final 17 of these years. Bev’s ardour has all the time been local community journalism. She says “As a journalist, I even have always seen it as my job to tell, encourage and involve. I am a passionate advocate for organisations and different people making a distinction to the world around them. Connectedness is so essential to the well being of a person but also to a community, no matter how small or massive.