General Manager
Anika Baset
Anika Baset is a lawyer specialising in public law and human rights. She is passionate about the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights and access to justice for marginalised communities. At present, her work is focused on the rights of people with disability and mental illness, including issues affecting vulnerable people under State guardianship and those facing compulsory treatment in detention. She has previously worked on economic and social rights issues as a legal aid lawyer, on children’s rights in the United Kingdom, at a war crimes trial in Cambodia and on environmental rights and conflict resolution in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University, where she graduated with a university medal, and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Editor in Chief
Roselina Press
Roselina Press (she/her) is an editor, writer and communications specialist. She currently works as the Deputy Chief of Staff & Director of Communications for Ellen Sandell, Leader of the Victorian Greens and the Victorian Greens MPs. She has also worked at the Human Rights Law Centre and Oxfam Australia, and held board positions at Right Now and Digital Rights Watch.
Roselina also co-edited the anthology Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights (2014), which was nominated for a Literature Award at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Awards.
She holds a Master of International Relations (First Class Hons) from the University of Melbourne.
Literary and Arts Editor
Stephen Zavitsanos
Stephen Zavitsanos (he/him) is an editor and writer with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Creative Writing, from the University of Melbourne. He is currently the literary and arts editor for the human rights magazine Right Now and the photography manager for Farrago Magazine. He is also the editor-in-chief of Unite Zine, an official not-for-profit fundraising magazine supporting the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
He has read poetry for Frontier Poetry, edited non-fiction, reviews, and creative pieces for Farrago Magazine, and worked as an editorial intern for Red Room Poetry and Above Water Anthology. His poem “Sick of Siken” was shortlisted for the Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry in 2022.
Head of Investigations
Gina McColl
Gina McColl is head of Investigations at Right Now, and founder of investigation agency The Tell and media consultancy Women’s Agency. Previously an award-winning journalist and editor at The Age, The Sunday Age and BRW, and Investigative Journalism lecturer at the University of Melbourne, she played a leading role in editorial independence, gender equity, public broadcasting and law reform campaigns as a director of the Walkley Foundation, vice-president of journalists’ union MEAA, and at the ABC and Andrew Denton’s Go Gentle Australia.
Marketing Managers
Corey Lisle
Corey leads marketing and promotion at Right Now. Prior to joining, Corey worked in a senior role in the digital marketing space for over four years. He has also been involved in political communications for over three years. Corey is a technology professional whose experience includes search marketing, programmatic marketing, funnel optimisation, digital communications, direct marketing, Scrum and analytics. Corey holds a Bachelor of Communication (Media) from RMIT and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University.
Leila Lois
Leila Lois is a writer, dancer, curator and media specialist of Kurdish-Celtic origin, based on Wurundjeri land and raised in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Leila has had her stories, poetry and essays published in Australia, New Zealand and North America and curated several exhibitions and performances centring around ancestry and human rights.
Board Chair
Tess McGuire
Tess is an Associate at MinterEllison, specialising in media and communications law. A young litigator, Tess was recognised as ‘Rising Star of the Year 2023’ by Lawyers Weekly’s Women in Law Awards. Tess was a member of the team that led Nine’s landmark defence of investigative journalists who reported on the alleged war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan. Tess is a strong advocate for access to justice and has extensive pro bono experience including as a Pro Bono Lawyer for the Arts Law Centre of Australia and a secondee to the Human Rights Law Centre. Tess was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Murphy at the Federal Court of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. Tess is committed to protecting and strengthening human rights and press freedom in Australia.
Secretary
Garima Sharma
Garima is a human rights law graduate from the University of Melbourne and also holds a postgraduate diploma in human rights law from a premier law school in India. She is passionate about the rights of women and children, and her research interests revolve around gender equality and social justice in general and sexual abuse of vulnerable women in particular. Prior to becoming a Board member, Garima was working as a non-fiction editor with Right Now. She is an internationally trained lawyer and was a registered trademarks attorney with IP Australia. Garima currently works as Deputy University Secretary and Company Secretary at Swinburne University of Technology where she empowers and champions higher education governance.
Treasurer
Katherine Sivieng
Katherine currently works as the Finance Director of Social Ventures Australia. Katherine is a finance professional whose experience includes accounting, audit, reporting, risk, operations and management. She has previously worked at the Sydney Opera House and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well at Deloitte in Sydney and the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. Katherine is passionate about the role of the Arts, storytelling and community in society. Her personal projects include co-founding, organising and teaching at community dance events. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Commerce from the University of Sydney.
General Board Member
Tess Maunder
Tess is a Curator, Writer and NFP Development & Grant Procurement specialist working at the intersection of social impact, human rights, health equity, and arts & culture access in Eora, Sydney, Australia. Recently, Maunder has worked for leading organizations including Mind Up Australia, The Fathering Project, Hassell Studio, Stroke Foundation, Melbourne Art Foundation, Vault Art and Culture Magazine, and Melbourne Art Library. Maunder is a member of the National Association for the Visual Arts and the Fundraising Institute of Australia. She has also curated a range of independent projects including: Planetary Gestures, at City of Greater Dandenong and NorthSite Contemporary Arts Cairns 2022-2024. From 2018-2020 Maunder produced a publishing volume on the relationship between climate and artist practices with a focus on the Asia-Pacific called Absolute Humidity. In 2016-2017 she worked as a Curatorial Collegiate for the 11th Shanghai Biennale led by Raqs Media Collective, at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China. In 2016, Maunder was awarded the MPavilion / Art Monthly Australasia Writing Award, where she produced writing about Australian Kamilaroi Bigambul artist Archie Moore. His presentation Kith and Kin, curated by Ellie Buttrose, for the 2024 Australian Pavilion, was celebrated as the first Australian artist to win the Golden Lion for best National Presentation at the Venice Biennale.