Carla Johnson

• Practice Consultant at Possability (Child and Youth Services) - working in trauma informed practice and positive behaviour support. • Previous manager of Ronald McDonald House Charities, Hobart Chapter. • Coordinator for Out of Home Therapeutic rostered care in Child and Youth Services with Oak Possability. •Carla was the the Fundraising and Events Coordinator for Tasmania's largest disability support service, Possability. •In 2015 Carla developed and managed "A Taste of Possibility", a gourmet food event featuring five of Tasmania's most celebrated chefs raising $27,000 for people living with disability in Tasmania. •Carla was a semi-finalist in the Southern Cross Young Achievers Award in 2015 and 2017 (community service). •In 2014 she worked for NOYED-Ghana, as the Communications and Fundraising Officer and established Ghana’s only NGO led Obstetric Fistula Campaign. The campaign successfully educated more than 2000 people on the causes, prevention and treatment methods of obstetric fistula. •Carla’s passion for mobilising supporter through social media saw her raise $15,000 to launch the second phase of Campaign for Fistula Free Northern Ghana. •Carla led the Back to School fundraiser in 2013 after the devastating Hobart Bushfire, raising $12,000 for Dunalley Primary School. •In 2012 and 2013 Carla worked as a consultant for Tasmania’s leading public relations firm, Font PR. •Carla has worked as a freelance journalist, newsreader, news assistant, as the volunteer Tasmanian Communications Coordinator for Oaktree, Australia’s largest entirely volunteer and youth-run aid and development organisation. •She graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Journalism and International Relations 2012 and from the Vice Chancellors leadership award. In addition she studied through the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative (GEJI) exchange program at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2011.