The Board
The Grace Tame Foundation Board currently consists of three directors plus an advisory panel. The three directors are Grace Tame, Michael Bradley and Michael Salter as outlined below. The Directors are known to each other, Michael Bradley being Grace’s lawyer and Michael Salter being Grace’s friend and colleague. To best enable the important work of The Grace Tame Foundation, the Board has formally resolved that Directors (including Grace) will not receive or accrue any wages/salaries.
The advisory panel meets at least once every quarter together with the board. Advisory panel members will also be consulted as required on issues specific to their expertise
Board
Grace Tame (CEO) - Executive Director
Since being announced Australian of the Year in January 2021, Grace has become a household name as a brave and passionate advocate for systemic change to prevent child sexual abuse. She was the first female in Tasmania to be granted the right to speak under her own name about her personal experience of sexual abuse as a child. "Grace appeared as part of the #LetHerSpeak campaign (run by sexual assault campaigner and Walkley award winning journalist Nina Funnell). Since then, she has used her voice to raise awareness of the impacts of grooming and the other various injustices faced by child sex abuse survivors.
Before returning to her home of Tasmania in 2020, Grace lived in the USA for almost seven years where she graduated with Associate Degrees with Honours in Liberal Arts and Theatre Arts from Santa Barbara City College. In the USA she worked as a yoga instructor and an artist with clients including actor John Cleese and musician Martin Gore.
Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley is a lawyer and writer. As managing partner of Marque Lawyers, a commercial firm with a strong human rights interest, Michael has become directly involved in work for sexual violence survivors and advocacy for reform in that area of the law. Marque partnered with Nina Funnell and End Rape On Campus Australia in the #LetHerSpeak campaign, providing direct legal support to survivors and drafting proposed law reforms many of which have now become law.
Michael is the Chair of the Rape And Sexual Assault Research & Advocacy Initiative (RASARA), which leads policy reform in this area, and a board member of For Film’s Sake, a not-for-profit facilitating paths to production for female and other under-represented groups of film-makers. He is also a widely published essayist on legal and social justice issues, with a regular column in Crikey and previously The Drum, as well as other media including The Saturday Paper. His first book Coniston, on the last massacre of Aboriginal people, was released by UWA Publishing in 2019, and his essay System Failure: The Silencing of Rape Survivors was published in 2021 as part of Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest series.
Michael Salter
Dr Michael Salter is a Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of Criminology at the
University of New South Wales. His research is focused on complex trauma, gender-based violence and child sexual abuse. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over fifty papers in international journals and edited collections. He is the President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation where he has served on the Board of Directors since 2018. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Child Abuse Review and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.
Dr Salter sits on a number of national and international advisory groups, including: the Research Working Group of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner, the Advisory Group of White Ribbon Australia, and the Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisory Group of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is the academic member of the National Plan Advisory Group to inform the development and implementation of the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children. Dr Salter is a key advisor to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection where he has undertaken a range of projects on strategic responses to child sexual exploitation.
Advisory Panel
Michael Salter - Advisory Panel
Dr Michael Salter is a Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of Criminology at the
University of New South Wales. His research is focused on complex trauma, gender-based violence and child sexual abuse. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over fifty papers in international journals and edited collections. He is the President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation where he has served on the Board of Directors since 2018. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Child Abuse Review and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.
Dr Salter sits on a number of national and international advisory groups, including: the Research Working Group of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner, the Advisory Group of White Ribbon Australia, and the Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Advisory Group of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is the academic member of the National Plan Advisory Group to inform the development and implementation of the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children. Dr Salter is a key advisor to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection where he has undertaken a range of projects on strategic responses to child sexual exploitation.