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CLAN Board

CLAN Board

Our experienced and goal driven board! CLAN Midland wouldn't be possible without them.

Megan Dawson
Megan DawsonChairperson
Megan’s professional background is in social work, early childhood, community development, management and leadership with many years’ experience in the early years arena. She has a broad understanding of the community services sector, rich experience of leadership in all aspects of service delivery in the early years, experience and knowledge of building capacity in others, and a passion for creating healthy safe communities in which children can flourish.
Aman Singh
Aman SinghVice Chairperson
Aman has more than 7 years of senior management experience within disability sector. He has specialised in workforce optimisation, project management and human resources and known for his strategic and pragmatic approach. Aman has a qualification in project management and holds an engineering degree from University of western Australia. He is a graduate of Emerging Leaders in Governance program.
Melanie Hopkinson
Melanie HopkinsonTreasurer
Melanie has been the Executive Officer at the Financial Counsellors Association of WA (FCAWA) for over two years and before this managed a large counselling and support service in a women’s health organisation. She has a wealth of experience in a range of sectors including, mental health (MH), alcohol and other drugs (AOD), education and women’s health. She holds post graduate qualifications in leadership and management, a master’s in health counselling and worked in a client-facing capacity as a counsellor for over five years in the AOD/MH environment. Melanie is a staunch advocate for social justice and ensuring the voices of the most vulnerable are heard and is passionate about developing services that are effective in meeting the needs of the people that require them. Melanie is originally from a small town called Rochdale in the Northwest of England – she relocated to Australia in 2014 and is now a proud Australian citizen living in Bassendean with her three boys, poodle cross Bean, and Maple the cat.
Seanna Dempsey
Seanna Dempsey Secretary
Seanna is an experienced and enthusiastic community development practitioner with a passion for building safe, healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities. Taking a strengths-based approach, her focus is on building capacity: supporting groups and individuals to achieve their goals, by developing knowledge, skills and confidence. Seanna has developed a broad range of experience in community and youth development, stakeholder engagement, project management and team leadership across state government, local government and the not-for-profit sector.
Lesley Bremner Bell
Lesley Bremner BellBoard Member
Lesley has over 25 years of International and Australian experience leading large technology delivery and operational business teams through transformation. Her work has included technology software delivery, business strategy, programme management, change management, risk and governance, and operational and process improvement. Lesley has worked in entrepreneurial environments and in large corporate enterprises with a long interest and involvement in the health sector. Lesley has a Master of Science degree from the University of Western Australia and an MBA undertaken at the University of Oregon.