Kerry Hawkins is a graduate of Boston University’s Global Leadership Institute’s Recovery Class of 2013. She is able to draw on both her lived experience as a family member of someone experiencing extreme and enduring distress, together with a professional career working as a project management consultant, strategic advisor for a federal government agency, and as a director of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).
Ms Hawkins was the carer representative on the Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) board for four years and has been its president since November 2016. She is also the WA director for Emerging Minds, a national mental health organisation focusing on improving mental health outcomes for children, parents and families; and a board member of Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA).
