New CEO to lead Redfern Legal Centre

McKernan has considerable social justice encounter, getting led Homelessness NSW as main executive for seven yrs. She also took on leadership roles at NSW Wellbeing and the Section of Household and Neighborhood Solutions, focusing on policy and technique.

O’Brien praised Shulman’s contributions to the RLC through her time at the helm.

“Jo leaves RLC in a formidable situation. RLC has a lot more employees and professional bono volunteers on our publications than ever before, which is a direct final result of Jo’s management in diversifying the centre’s funding portfolio to involve a mix of corporate, federal government and philanthropic resources,” O’Brien stated. “During her tenure, Jo has forged a lot of prolonged-long lasting partnerships, and has championed RLC’s very pleased custom of determining authorized require and plugging gaps in the authorized assistance obtainable to make lasting adjust.”

Initiatives headed by Shulman consist of overseeing an organisational review that led to the RLC’s generalist legal support diversifying into a variety of expert authorized places. She also led the start of the centre’s Health and fitness Justice Partnership with Sydney Neighborhood Wellbeing District, which provides precedence authorized help to 1st Nations individuals at well being websites.

She has served to further more the RLC’s function with Initial Nations people today with the launch of a To start with Nations Justice Device and the hire of a committed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal entry worker. Also, Shulman performed a purpose in the RLC’s introduction of tech like the to start with multilanguage interactive authorized assistance application for worldwide pupils in Australia and the initial professional condition-wide money abuse service in NSW.