Julie Magill
Julie Magill lives in Bankstown, in South West Sydney on Darug Land. She is a Peer Researcher and Facilitator with the CALD Peer Café, Women’s Group and Eastern Suburbs Peer Café. She is also a Treasurer with the DDAlliance Board.
She is very passionate about becoming an advocate for changing attitudes, perceptions, education, and inclusion in the disability space and community.
She would like to see people with disability from CALD backgrounds to feel respected, valued, connected and included within their local communities.
Since joining DDAlliance, she enjoys seeing peers supporting and looking out for each other, sharing her knowledge, learning new skills, networking, connecting with other peers, building new relationships with other disability organisations and allies and making new friends.
She has over twenty years experience working in Administration and Service Delivery with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She also worked on the 2019 NSW State Election (batching and counting votes). In 2021, she was involved with her local council in different projects: to celebrate International Day of People With Disability and with the Disability Inclusion Action Plan.
She enjoys watching sports such as cricket, basketball (Sydney Kings), AFL; and plays bocce, cricket and trivia. She also loves to read.