Our Board

Meet our Board

Our Board brings together diverse experience, expertise and perspectives to provide governance and strategic leadership for Body Safety Australia.

Julie Riggs

Acting Chair & Non-Executive Director

Julie Riggs, GAICD and CPA, is a strategic finance and operations professional and passionate leader and mentor. She possesses strong commercial acumen given the combination of her finance skills, client experiences and dealings with complex situations over the course of her career.

In senior leadership positions she has performed, in both large global and smaller companies, she participated in long term strategy development and execution, coached teams to embed governance frameworks across the business to improve relationships and business outcomes for clients, as well as driving more tactical financial and business outcomes. She also successfully managed and motivated high performing teams of over 300 employees.

Julie is happily married, a mother of two daughters, and a supportive member of a large extended family. She is committed to using her skills and experiences to assist BSA to advance the safety of children and people in our communities.

Bayley Turner

Treasurer

Bayley Turner (she/her) is a proud queer trans woman, performing artist, and consent advocate. As the founder and driving force behind ‘Create Consent’, Bayley’s work involves consulting with creative production teams on consent-centred creative practices, policy and protocol documentation and facilitating bespoke workshops locally and internationally with theatre and film projects. Whilst developing her own business, Bayley served on several Board for consulting, education and public health organisations as an executive administrator. She completed her Masters at Monash University with a thesis discussing consent in the creative industries, going on to conceptualise and organise ‘Consent Festival’, which opened the 2019 Midsumma Festival. She is a MEAA Scholarship winner to train intimacy coordination with IDC Professionals in intimacy and was accepted into the 2022 ‘She Starts Out’ entrepreneurship program with global consulting firm Ernst & Young. http://create-consent.com/.

Shannon Bourke

Secretary

Shannon Bourke is a Garawa woman, mother of one, foster carer and early childhood teacher who has been working in education for 14 years.

Shannon became interested in body safety while at university and has been able to build on that knowledge while working as a teacher, supporting young children to speak up for their own needs.

She currently works at the Australian Education Union where she supports early childhood educators and teachers to access better working lives.

Kerry Chatman

Director

Kerry joined the Body Safety Australia Board in June 2025, bringing more than 25 years of leadership experience in Technology, Data and Digital Strategy across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Throughout her career, she has led complex transformation programs, built high-performing teams, and championed the ethical and inclusive use of technology to improve lives and enable equitable access to services.

Passionate about social impact and inclusion, Kerry is committed to using her expertise in digital innovation, governance, and systems thinking to support Body Safety Australia’s mission of promoting childhoods free from violence, where all children can thrive in equitable and respectful relationships.

Kerry is a member of the judging panel for the Tech Diversity Awards, recognising outstanding contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector. She holds a Master of Science from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Kerry is part of a proud rainbow family and is the mother of two young adult daughters, one of whom is neurodivergent. Her lived experience deepens her commitment to fostering safe, inclusive environments for all children and families.

Deanne Carson

CEO

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