Tess Moodie

Tess Moodie (they/them) is a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal (palawa) LGBTIQA+ person with lived experience of disability living in the north-west of lutruwita/Tasmania. Tess is a victim-survivor of multiple forms of violence and is a passionate intersectional advocate, with a particular focus in the prevention of family, domestic and sexual violence in the disability and LGBTIQA+ community. 

They are a nationally known lived experience leader who has invested more than a decade working to transform lived experience and research into systemic change, practice improvement and legislative reform by creating genuine partnerships and collaboration with and between people with lived experience, organisations and government stakeholders. 

Tess brings extensive experience across project, policy, advisory and research roles in the not-for-profit sector and working with Commonwealth and state government agencies, both in direct employment and as an independent consultant. 

Tess has led lived experience programs from a foundational to operational level, including adult DFSV advocate programs, a youth victim-survivor (child sexual abuse) advisory council and as an expert consultant also advised Tasmanian government on the establishment of three victim-survivor lived experience advisory councils.  In their consultancy they have created guidelines for other organisations on how to work safely and ethically with people with lived experience.

Tess has undertaken groundbreaking research for the creation of Australia’s research priorities for Autistic girls, women and gender diverse people and is the co-founder of Australia’s first peak organisation for lived experience of DFSV, led by lived experience, the Independent Collective of Survivors.

They have participated in print, online, audio and video media as a subject matter expert and lived experience advocate for over a decade.  In their spare time they love spending time with family and venturing into the forest of Lutruwita (Tasmania).