The GRA Committee

Committee Members serve as volunteers, and pay for their own memberships in 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

Ben Crothers

President
Sydney, Australia

Graphic recorder, strategist, facilitator, design thinker, mentor, and author. Loves travel and the outdoors.

Tatum Kenna

Committee Member
Sydney, Australia

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

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.

Lucinda Gifford

Committee Member
Melbourne, Australia

Graphic recorder, visual storyteller and children’s author and illustrator, with over 40 books published, using her understanding of story to clarify data and concepts, communicate ideas and create strong and effective visuals.

Debbie Wood

Vice President
Melbourne, Australia

Graphic recorder & illustrator.
Helping speakers, facilitators & groups tell their stories with beautiful visuals.

You?

Committee Member
Australia or Aotearoa

Do you love the field of visual practitioners? Community spirit? Got skillz?

We should talk!

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)
  • KJ Hepworth (2026)