NENA's Constitution requires that a NENA Strategic Directions Group (SDG) be elected every 2 years.
The SDG's primary objective is to create ‘regular strategic plans’ for the cooperative, and provide ‘general advice’ to the Board about strategic priorities (see Rule 4.2, NENA Constitution).
The goal is for the SDG to be made up of people from across a diverse range of NENA Hubs, and the SDG will help facilitate the process for getting all Hubs to input to the Civil Society Strategy
CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS GROUP (elected AGM 2023)
- Dr Michelle Maloney
- Hamed Hosseini
- Anisa Rogers
- JP Parker
- Tarik Cutuk
- Tiyana Jovanovic
Dr Michelle Maloney is Co-Founder and Director of NENA, and participates on the NENA Strategic Directions Group. She also manages the Coordinating Hub, which leads NENA’s Hub Connectivity, communications and social media, national event management, membership and partnership development.
Michelle began working with other colleagues to create the New Economy Network Australia in 2016, and since that time NENA has grown into a national network of thousands of individuals and organisations working to transform our economic system so that it supports ecological health and socially and economically just human societies.
She is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University and Co-founder and Director of Future Dreaming Australia – an organisation created by Indigenous and non-indigenous leaders to promote cross cultural sharing of governance and ecological knowledge in Australia. Michelle is on the Steering Group for the International Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA), and is on the Advisory Group for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN).
Tarik Cutuk is a postgraduate with the Graduate Centre in Governance and International Affairs at the University of Queensland. He lives in Umpi Korumba (Brisbane), on unceded land, and recognises the Jagera and Turrbal people as its traditional custodians. He has an academic background in Philosophy, Historical Studies, and English Literature, as well as experience as an activist and organiser with Extinction Rebellion in South-East Queensland. His passion is to participate in social, cultural, and political transformation and play and he is particularly interested in critically reflecting upon the nature of modernity and the Australian state, as well as engaging in broader existential and spiritual inquiry and exploration.