Our Staff

Our dedicated staff are experts in their chosen fields and are integral to our mission of providing free legal services to inner Melbourne communities.

Elisa Buggy

Chief Executive Officer

Indya McMahon

Director - Legal Practice

Louisa Bassini

Manager - Housing and tenancy

Kate Fitzgerald

Senior Lawyer, Public housing outreach

Jasmine Pilbrow

Graduate Lawyer - Migration

Jack Price

Graduate Lawyer - Housing and tenancy

Amelia Freeman

Paralegal - Housing and tenancy

Denise Gardner

Migration Coordinator (Long service leave)

Nimet Gurleyen

Senior Lawyer - Beyond Survival and Police Accountability Project

Danielle Wisniak

Senior Lawyer - Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal (VOCAT)

Molly Flowers

Lawyer - Family law

Dylan Goldsworthy

Lawyer - Family violence

Charlotte Watson

Lawyer - Child and Family Services

Tabitha O'Shea

Lawyer - Health Justice Partnerships

Rory Hudson

Manager - Crime

Taina Lefort

Senior Lawyer – Police Accountability Project

Michal Kedem

Senior Lawyer - Health Justice Partnership and Criminal Law (maternity leave)

Peggy O'Bryan-Gusah

Lawyer (secondee)

Emma Hagan

Graduate Lawyer

Shifrah Blustein

Manager – Mental Health, AOD and Young People

Katherine Scully

Lawyer - Mental Health, AOD and Young People

Gregor Husper

Principal Lawyer – Police Accountability

Nadia Morales

Director – Strategy, Engagement and Projects

Holly Buykx

Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

Connie Agius

Media and Communications Coordinator

Kerstin Jones

Community Connections Coordinator

Betty Ayano

Research, Engagement and Education Officer

Michelle Reynolds

Director – Advocacy and Policy

Anna Nguyen

Program Manager - Over and under policing

Wallis Hamilton

Police complaints and oversight project lead and senior lawyer

Tori Diamond

Manager - Operations and legal practice

Elizabeth Haavisto

Finance Officer

Isabella Jones

Paralegal

Ikram Nur

Intake and paralegal support

Maddie Linden-White

Intake and paralegal support

Rosie Pegler

Intake and paralegal support