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

Ben Crothers

President
Sydney, Australia

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

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.

KJ Hepworth

Committee Member
Adelaide, South Australia

Translating complex ideas into accessible visual stories.

Debbie Wood

Vice President
Melbourne, Australia

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

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.

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)