Committee Members serve as volunteers, and pay for their own memberships in the GRA. Specific roles available for the coming year, and nominees for each role, are voted in by all members at the Annual General Meeting.

2025 Committee

Tatum Kenna

President
Sydney, Australia

Graphic Recorder and Illustrator. Passionate in helping communicate ideas creatively, enabling enduring and impactful engagements with content.

KJ Hepworth

Committee Member
Adelaide, South Australia

Translating complex ideas into accessible visual stories.

Lucinda Gifford

Committee Member
Melbourne, Australia

Graphic recorder and visual storyteller with a background in architecture, design and advertising. Lucinda is also a children’s author and illustrator, with over 40 books published, and uses her understanding of story to clarify data and concepts, communicate ideas and create strong and effective visuals.

Matthew Magain

Treasurer
Melbourne, Australia

Founder of Sketch Group, Graphic Gear, and the VizConf conference series. Likes buying LEGO® online and pretending it’s for his kids.

Ben Crothers

Committee Member
Sydney, Australia

Graphic recorder, strategist, facilitator, design thinker, mentor, and author

Issie Loseby

Committee Member
New Zealand

Kiwi graphic recorder and visual storyteller with a background in illustration, creative media production and writing. Issie is stepping out from the corporate world and into the communication space, with expertise in bringing delight to the dull and clarity to the confusing. She is a proud advocate of the LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse communities.

Debbie Wood

Vice President
Melbourne, Australia

Graphic Recorder & Illustrator
Helping speakers, facilitators & groups tell their stories with beautiful visuals.

Kate Baxter

VizConf Organizing Genius
Melbourne, Australia

Graphic recording, animation and motion graphics, illustration, strategic visualisation, graphic design, virtual environments, murals, art installations, printmaking and tapestry… and everything in between!

Alex Wegner

Committee Member
Newcastle, NSW

Graphic recording, illustration and animation. Alex has over 20 years experience as a graphic designer, illustrator and UX designer in London, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Past Committee Members:

  • Jessamy Gee (2019-2022)
  • Sarah Firth (2019-20)
  • Alice Edy (2019-20)
  • Zahra Zainal (2019-21)
  • Marc Hundleby (2019-21)
  • Will Bessen (2019-21)
  • Steve Keast (2021)
  • Cat Drysdale (2023-2024)
  • Mirranda Burton (2022-2024)
  • Andy Bull (2024)
  • Lisa Richardson (2022-2024)
  • Larissa Day (2022-2023)