Tanya McCabe is a seasoned executive and board director with over 20 years of experience leading organisations through growth, transformation, and complex change. With a background spanning technology, insurance, mining, health, professional services, and infrastructure, Tanya brings a wealth of strategic and operational expertise to her work. She is passionate about building inclusive, people-focused organisations and has a proven track record of driving positive outcomes for both teams and communities.

As Chair and President of the Unlocking Our Futures, Tanya is dedicated to supporting individuals as they transition from prison back into society. She leads with empathy and a practical approach, championing programs that foster rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and help people rebuild their lives.

Tanya holds an MBA from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Known for her approachable style and genuine commitment to social impact, she continues to advocate for second chances and stronger communities through her work with Unlocking Our Futures.

Frank has over 25 years’ experience in the finance and accounting field, specialising in operational and commercial support in fast growth environments. During his time in finance leadership positions, he has worked extensively with small to large sized organisations from a range of industries including healthcare, fashion retail, telecoms, hospitality, manufacturing, and social enterprises.

By putting people at the source of the solution, Frank has led key finance initiatives to support the strategic goals of organisations, working closely with the management team, providing insight and analysis for informed decision making ensuring effective financial control and risk management within dynamic organisational environments.

Frank has extensive board experience in the human services sector, serving as Treasurer to ActionAid Australia and Director on the Board of Living My Way. Frank is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

Appointed to the Board of the Unlocking Our Futures in 2023, Tina McPhee (She/Her) (Bich Crim Hons, PhD Candidate) is a lived experience criminologist, teaching and studying at UNSW and working as a lived experience advocacy coordinator at Justice Reform Initiative.

Since leaving prison in 2018, Tina has dedicated her time and energy to advocating for ending the collateral consequences of conviction. Her doctoral thesis is an autobiographical account of how damaging collateral consequences can be to the re-entry journey. The solidarity of carceral citizenship mobilises her activism and storytelling, as does the struggle to see person-centred language replace harmful prison labels when referring to people who are or who have been in prison.

Lauren is a Company Secretary and Solicitor with MUFG Corporate Governance (part of the global MUFG Group) and is an admitted solicitor with over 20 years of experience as a dedicated legal research and GRC specialist. She brings this experience, as well as an ability to bridge the gap between technology and practice to her work at the Unlocking Our Futures.

Lauren is passionate about giving back to the community through the not for profit sector as well as donating time to mentor and coach young lawyers in their professional development, with a primary focus on enabling all people in society to have the same chances of success that she has.

Appointed to the Board of the Unlocking Our Futures in 2014, Lauren advocates strongly for the role of rehabilitation in the justice system and believes in the Unlocking Our Futures promise that everyone deserves a second chance and an opportunity to thrive. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and holds other volunteer Board roles with the Western Sydney Community Legal Centre, among other positions on a range of ASX listed, overseas listed, technology and not for profit Boards.

Andreea is a PhD candidate researching understanding torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. She has completed a Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the NT, and as a Churchill Fellow Impact Funding recipient, has developed a national set of human rights compliant, culturally appropriate monitoring standards for police custody for detained Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Andreea has worked as a criminal defence solicitor at Victoria Legal Aid and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, also having been the Coordinator of Community Legal Education, Training and Projects at the latter. She was the inaugural Head of Policy, Communications and Strategy at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.

Andreea has visited Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island detention centres as a volunteer humanitarian observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program, and has been the ACT National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) Coordination Director, and the Detention Monitoring and Policy Advisor at the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services.

She is currently Manager of Policy and Law Reform at the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT). She is on the Editorial Board of the Alternative Law Journal and provides editorial support and language editing for the Torture Journal.