Our Team

CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Elsa is a queer, Jewish and Chinese woman of colour. She is an educator, facilitator and performer. Prior to her role at Hue she was the Director of Training at Democracy in Colour, where she established the workplace training program, and was a presenter for a youth organisation where she co-designed a social change program for young people that toured nationally.

She has a background in Social Work and Psychology, and completed her honours thesis on how multiracial people from multiple minority heritages engage with their identities.

She served two terms on the board of the QTIPOC committee at Switchboard Victoria, an organisation that provides peer-driven support to the LGBTIQA+ community, and also on the Public Fund Committee for Intertwine. In 2020 she was awarded one of Out for Australia's 30 under 30, for LGBTQIA+ role models and leaders.

They are an organiser for many mutual aid projects and grassroots campaigns within the queer, POC & Jewish communities.

CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Sonia is an Indian woman of colour who combines her passion for community organising, facilitation and anti-racism campaigning to create inclusive educational experiences.

Sonia was the Director of Community Organising at Democracy in Colour and established the Community Organising program in 2017. She has over 10 years of experience working in the social justice sector, where she has led the design and implementation of activism and mobilisation strategies on human rights issues in Australia and around the world.

She is highly skilled at navigating the internal processes and structures that often restrict the dismantling of oppression in progressive spaces.

Sonia believes in the power of collective organising to create change and is passionate about elevating the voices of people with lived experiences of racism and other forms of oppression.

OPERATIONS CO-ORDINATOR

Jacqui is a Kenyan woman based in Naarm. She is a versatile and creative operations coordinator who brings over 10 years executive and other administrative expertise, along with communication and customer relations experience in the Australian Not-for-Profit sector.

Jacqui holds a Bachelor and Masters degree in communication. Her interpersonal style is warm, attentive and accepting. She combines a passion for administration and a respect for others, to listen and provide the team and clients support, as well as oversee Hue's operations.

As a black woman working in client services, she understands how structural inequality can impact the fabric of an organisation. As part of her commitment she was previously a member and later Secretary of Community Coalition, an organisation that helps people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds find their voice, including refugees and asylum seekers.

She is a mother, who enjoys creating music and watching mockumentary sitcoms.

FACILITATOR

Dane is a queer Ilokano-Tagalog migrant-settler from the Philippines. They have been actively involved in anti-racist organising and community work in Meanjin (Brisbane) for a number of years. Dane is the Queensland State Coordinator for Democracy in Colour and are the development coordinator of Sabayan, a Filipino collective that provides a social and creative hub for the Filipino youth in the community. Dane provided Therapeutic care work and mentorship as a youth worker for teenagers in youth housing.

Through grassroots organising with refugees and people seeking asylum, Dane encourages others to express their anger and love into direct action. They also provide direct support for refugees in Meanjin, and are passionate about creating spaces with previously detained community members to feel safe and connected.

Dane has completed a Bachelor of Psychology and a Bachelor of Social Science and is undertaking their Master of Development Practice, strongly focusing on anti-oppressive community development.

They enjoy Arnis (Filipino Martial Arts), karaoke and hearty conversations.

CONSULTANT

Enkfi is a queer, disabled, and Black trans person settled in Naarm. Coming from a background in STEM and being a second-generation immigrant from Mauritius, he experienced first hand the racism, sexism, and ableism within this industry and decided to dedicate his life to using his lived experience to begin changing bigoted systems in a meaningful way.

He’s been part of the disability and chronic illness advocacy group Chronic Illness Peer Support (ChIPS) within the Royal Children’s Hospital in which they designed and implemented diversity policies, created a new committee, workshops, safety and inclusion practices. Enkfi has also been a part of the Genomics In Schools Steering Committee with GSMV as a community representative and has assisted in the development of a relevant and ethical genomics module for VCE Biology students.

Additionally, Enkfi is the Assistant Director and Publishing Lead of Unbound Arts Collective which is a collaboration between womyn, trans, and nonbinary creatives that work to share the voices and works of the marginalized, with an emphasis on the intersecting disadvantages faced by Bla(c)k and indigenous communities, and people of colour globally.

FACILITATOR

Loma Cuevas-Hewitt lives on the banks of the Parramatta River on the unceded lands of the Wallumattagal people of the Darug nation. She also lives in the borderlands of gender, sexuality and race, being a proudly queer nonbinary trans woman of colour of Philippine and Anglo-Australian ancestry.

Prior to joining Hue, Loma worked in policy and research for a range of Aboriginal peak bodies and boutique consulting firms. She also brings extensive teaching and facilitation experience from her time in academia, having also run trans awareness and solidarity workshops in a freelance capacity.

Loma holds a PhD in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Western Australia, with a thesis examining changing notions of what ‘changing the world’ means from the 1960s through to the present day, among communists, anarchists, feminists and environmentalists in the Philippines and Philippine diaspora.

In her spare time, Loma writes and performs poetry, participates in activism for social and environmental justice, and finds solace in nature, literature and play.