Our Board

Amelia Arnold (she/her)

Chair

Amelia is a white queer cis woman, working and living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land in the northern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne). Amelia’s professional expertise is in research, research translation and training and workshop delivery in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, fertility, mental health and LGBTIQA+ service user experience. Amelia works coordinating the training and capacity building work within the Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion team at Women's Health in the North (WHIN) and is a research associate with the Growing Queer Families Alliance within the Centre of Research Excellence, Health in Preconception and Pregnancy at Monash University.

Amelia is currently working on research and training projects that centre the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in mainstream sexual and reproductive health, including the experiences of queer and trans parents and their families. Amelia has previously worked as a trainer and facilitator with Rainbow Health Australia and Thorne Harbour Health, delivering training to health and human service organisations to build their capacity to work with LGBTIQA+ communities.

Outside of paid work, Amelia has served on Switchboard’s Board of Directors for the past six years, previously chairing Switchboard's Community Engagement Committee, and sits on the Rainbow Families at Switchboard Working Group. Amelia's idea of a good time includes pottering through vintage shops, dancing, gardening, and spending time with her loved ones and dog.

Elle Cartmill (they/them)

General Board Member
Governance Committee Member
Strategy Committee Member

Acting Secretary

Elle is a passionate mental health advocate and social justice activist across a multitude of organisations and sectors where their focus is systematic change for the benefit of LGBTIQ+ folks. They are a community presenter for Black Dog Institute, on the Expert Advisory Committee for MindOut at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, and a volunteer at Switchboard. Elle works at the Melbourne Children's Campus, as a Workforce Development Lead, where their extracurricular work includes co-designing and leading the Campus LGBTIQA+ Strategy Network, the Gender Equity SAGE accreditation, and the LGBTIQA+ Peer Support Network. Elle's lived experience coupled with their identity as a non-binary and queer individual informs their empathetic and bold style of leadership in their community.

Sean Badley (he/him)

General Board Member

Sean Badley is a proud multiheritage black queer man with an ancestral heritage of African, Caribbean, and Scottish descent.

Sean currently works in the leadership and executive development industry, consulting in various sectors, including government, health, education, and numerous private sectors. Diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging are central to the themes in Sean's work, with the core focus on building safe and inclusive workspaces across Australia.

Sean has demonstrated a successful career in the private sector, having held senior leadership roles with commercial, operational, and administrative accountability in Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America.

Sean holds a Master's in business administration from RMIT, an Advanced Diploma in leadership and management, and credentials in project management, global leadership, truth-telling and anti-racism, workplace training and assessment, and capability development. This broad range of knowledge provides frameworks and insights for organizational sustainability, innovation, and people engagement.