Paul Oosting has been the National Director of GetUp since 2015. He led GetUp’s successful 2016 election campaign which focused on multiple areas such as stopping funding cuts to local hospitals, holding corporate tax dodgers to account and keeping climate action at the top of the agenda. In 2017, Paul ranked in the top 10 of the Australian Financial Review’s Power Index of the most covertly powerful people in 2017. Before joining GetUp, Paul led the successful campaign to stop Gunns’ proposed pulp mill in Tasmania. The campaign resulted in the protection of over 160,000 hectares of Tasmania’s ancient forests.

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Natalie O’Brien is GetUp’s Chief of Staff and former Economic Fairness Director. She joined GetUp in 2013, after a stint at NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, and having campaigned on issues including marriage rights and immigration reform during the 2012 US presidential election.

Mark Connelly is a Campaigns Director at GetUp, with more than a decade of political campaigning experience in Australia and the United States. Mark led prominent campaigns, including GetUp’s fightback against the Abbott Government’s 2014 austerity Budget.

In the US, Mark was Director of Online Campaigns for MoveOn.org, Strategy Director at Purpose, leading campaigns on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and held a national position coordinating lawyers in the 2004 Kerry-Edwards U.S. presidential campaign.

Mark practiced corporate law for 5 years before turning to politics. He has a law degree from NYU Law and a Master of Public Policy from Sydney University.

Miriam Lyons is Climate Justice Co-Director at GetUp! She ran the Wentworth by-election and Warringah election campaigns at GetUp. Miriam is a renewable energy expert, policy analyst, writer and commentator, and the co-author, with Ian McAuley, of Governomics.

Miriam was the founding CEO of the Centre for Policy Development, where she is now a Fellow. She has been a guest on various TV and radio programs, including the ABC shows Q&A and The Drum, has contributed to several publications and co-edited the books Pushing Our Luck and More Than Luck. Earlier roles include Policy Editor for NewMatilda.com, researching freedom of speech in East Timor, and organising ideas festivals.

Emily Mulligan is a Campaign Director with GetUp. She has a decade’s experience in campaigning from lobbying for better policy at global climate conferences to media exposure for women’s rights programs in Uganda. Most recently Emily has worked on Australia focused campaigns from the Murray Darling to Marriage Equality.

Shen Narayanasamy has led GetUp’s Human Rights campaigns for the last 4 years. Prior to GetUp she was a corporate lawyer, then worked  in the Asia-Pacific on corporate human rights abuse - writing Oxfam’s first report into Australia’s Big Banks association with land grabs overseas.

She founded the No Business in Abuse campaign which led to the exit of international corporations from offshore detention, and the closure of the Manus Island Detention Centre. At her time at GetUp she has led our racial justice work including the successful campaigns against changes to 18C and citizenship, and instituted Colour Code - GetUp’s platform for multicultural and first nations members and issues. She plays a leadership role in the refugee sector - driving the #kidsoffnauru campaign which saw every child detained offshore brought to Australia within 4 months, and led the cross-party effort which resulted in the historic passage of the Refugee Medivac Bill in Parliament this year.

Ben Raue is a data analyst specialising in analysing Australian elections. He has run the Tally Room website since 2008, where he publishes guides to every state and federal election. Ben has worked at GetUp since 2013 where he analyses GetUp’s one-million strong membership database.

Larissa Baldwin is a Widjabul woman from the Bundjalung Nations and currently First Nations Justice Lead at GetUp. She dedicates her life to fighting for First Nations justice and Self-Determination. From staunch grassroots resistance, to building the Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network, to starting First Nations Justice campaigning at GetUp. Larissa has a passion for mentoring young people, and crafting brilliant campaign strategies.

Sam is one of GetUp’s environmental justice campaigns directors. He has been leading GetUp’s campaign to fight Adani’s horrendous coal mine since 2013. He wants to keep our climate safe, our Reef healthy and the influence of fossil fuels out of our Government.

Ed leads GetUp’s efforts to build an economy that works for all of us. He authored  GetUp’s economic vision Future to Fight For, hosts a podcast by the same name, and has brought some of the world’s leading economic thinkers on tour to Australia.

Prior to working at GetUp, Ed was the Executive Director of the world’s largest social impact consultancy for charities and non-profits, a speech-writer for a former senior Australian politician, and an analyst at one of Australia’s best performing private equity funds.

Ed was the Dean’s Undergraduate Scholar for Economics at Sydney University, and is one of only a handful of people to have won both the Australasian and World Debating Championships

Roj is a Senior Campaigner at GetUp specialising in racial and economic justice. She has lead Colour Code, a national independent movement of First Nations and migrant communities for racial justice.

Roj is a Kurdish woman from Iraq who sought refuge in Australia in the 1990s, an experience that has influenced her perspective on community organising and justice.

She has worked with effected communities across the country to build up their capacity and advocate for a non-discriminatory migration system, improve diverse representation across all public institutions, combat the rise of extremist white supremacist groups and stamp out structural racism and discrimination. She is currently leading GetUp’s campaign work on economic justice including raising Newstart and lifting the migrant worker underclass.

Roj came to GetUp with a background in LGBTI+, refugee and racial justice, and over 5 years experience in public policy, media and design strategy. Roj was the previous editor for Acclaim Magazine and Neue Luxury, and is a regular contributor to the Saturday Paper, Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin and SBS.