Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, member of the Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Advisory Council

Luce works leading the policy and advocacy team at Laurel House and as a consultant leading Collective Voices Consulting. They have deep expertise in engagement, lived experience advocacy, human research, public speaking, facilitation, professional development, and in equity diversity, and inclusion.

Luce is a queer, neurodivergent, disabled person, and a victim-survivor of sexual assault with a history of research, teaching, facilitation, and advocacy around all these lived experiences driving social, cultural, organisational, and legislative reform for a more inclusive society.