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ABOUT SALLY MORRIS
Sally Morris is on a mission to advance the inclusion, health, and wellbeing of all LGBTIQ+ people and communities.
Hello! I am Sally Morris and I am passionate about LGBTIQ+ inclusion and advancing the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ people and communities. I am a cisgender queer woman who uses she/her pronouns. I live on Jinibara country amongst the mountain rainforest to the north west of Meanjin (Brisbane) with my family.
With an academic background in human services and community development my areas of interest are mental health and wellbeing, suicide prevention, and the role that social inclusion and belonging to community plays a role in our wellbeing.
Over the last 20 years, I have had the privilege to work a broad range of roles across state and national peer-led LGBTIQ+ not-for-profit community organisations.
My professional experience had encompassed:
- organisational leadership,
- program development, delivery and management,
- strategy development,
- health promotion campaigns,
- network building and stakeholder engagement,
- sector development,
- professional development training and education, and
- community capacity-building.
Alongside my professional roles I have been a perennial volunteer and community builder that culminated in the creation of my own LGBTIQ+ community organisation, Wendybird, in 2014.
For seven years I facilitated community events alongside a passionate and skilled group of LGBTIQ+ people that created and nurtured community spaces that fostered belonging for those who are often excluded.
Through Wendybird I saw firsthand the transformative power of social inclusion in improving mental health and well-being for our queer communities.
It is important to me to share my lived experience of being a queer person who has navigated a range of life experiences including the suicide death of my younger sister, Wendy, in 2007 at the age of 24, which alongside the other countless suicides in LGBTIQ+ communities is a key motivator for my work in both the LGBTIQ+ communities and suicide prevention.
I am now lending my expertise to the broader community services sector and I am seeking opportunities where I can continue to drive impactful change for LGBTIQ+ people and communities.
