Lucy Perry

Lucy Perry (born Lucy Schaffler[1] 26 November 1973) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sunrise Cambodia. Perry is former CEO of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and considered one of the top global CEOs in the not-for-profit sector.[2] She is the creator of ''Beer + Bubs childbirth education for men which is run in pubs all across Australia.[3] Perry is also a published author, photographer, keynote speaker, and mother to three children.

Personal life

Perry was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her mother, Rosemary, was a high school teacher and is now a Baptist Pastor, and her father is an engineer. Perry's family left South Africa when Lucy was 5 years old and moved to Turramurra, a suburb of North Sydney, Australia, when she was 8 years old.[4] Perry attended Roseville College an Anglican school for girls on Sydney's North Shore. [4]

Lucy married Bruce Perry in 1995 and the couple had three children together; Hudson (2003), Harlow (2005), and Sheba (2008) before separating in 2015.[4]

Career

Perry left school at the age of 17 and worked as a jillaroo before finding work with creative agency Pilgrim International and working on cause-related accounts such as Amnesty International and World Vision. She started up her own creative services firm, Pure Graphics in 1993.[4]

Perry's career changed direction in 2004 when she became a doula, or birth partner, and began donating the proceeds of her work as a doula to Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia (later Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia).[4] The same year she began Beer + Bubs, a childbirth support program for men, which still runs in pubs across Australia.[5]

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia

Perry's involvement in Hamlin Fistula began in 2004, after seeing Dr Catherine Hamlin AC, co-founder of Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital Ethiopia, on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Perry began matching her fee as a doula to the price of a fistula operation and donating it to the organisation. Perry began volunteering in communications for the organisation in 2004 and visited the hospital in Ethiopia. After eight years of volunteering, Perry was appointed CEO of a new charitable entity, Hamlin Fistula (Australia) by Dr Catherine Hamlin AC.[4]

As CEO of Hamlin Fistula (Australia) Perry ran a small team of fundraisers and volunteers and raised over 7 million dollars in 2.5 years for Dr Hamlin's hospital. In April 2015 Perry was asked to step down as CEO under.[6]

Sunrise Cambodia

In October 2015 Perry was appointed CEO (Australia) of Sunrise Cambodia, a Cambodian-based not-for-profit founded by the humanitarian legend, Geraldine Cox AM.[7] Cox offered Perry the position the day after appearing on the ABC program Australian Story searching for an "heir" to her orphanages to take care of the fundraising side of the organisation from Australia.[8]

Public life

Knox Grammar testimony

In March 2015 Lucy Perry gave evidence against former Knox Grammar headmaster Ian Paterson in the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sex Abuse.[9] Perry testified that she was indecently assaulted by Paterson while at Roseville College at the age of 15 during a rehearsal for the musical, Guys and Dolls, in 1989. Perry's claims were corroborated in court the next day by a witness who remained anonymous.[10] Perry reported the incident to the NSW police in 2009 when former Knox students began coming forward with allegations of abuse at the hands of their teachers. She did not press charges but went to the police to help with their investigations.[9]

SausageFest

One of Perry's fundraising appeals for Sunrise Cambodia, SausageFest, was linked to an incident with the Australian Graphic Awards Design Association. On November 14, 2015 Lucy Perry left an Australian Graphic Awards Design Association (AGDA) award night and tweeted that her reasons for leaving were due to the lack of gender representation at the awards. She followed up these comments by explaining her position on Facebook.[11] AGDA responded to Perry with a legal letter demanding she remove the offending comments within 48 hours, and approached Sunrise Cambodia's chairman to force Perry to delete the posts, issue an apology and make no further comments about AGDA or its awards night but it did not receive a response. This was on the grounds that Perry suggested that AGDA is male dominated and misogynist without first seeking the facts. At the awards night, Perry was overheard saying that the night was a "joke" and a "sausagefest".[11] Perry effectively used this term to as a fundraising handle for Sunrise Cambodia in early 2016.[12]

Publications

Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ "Former Knox Grammar student says he saw headmaster grope schoolgirl". The Guardian. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  2. ↑ "Catherine Hamlin's dynomo CEO: Lucy Perry". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  3. ↑ "Beer + Bubs: childbirth education for dads at the pub". Beer + Bubs. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lucy Perry on life after testifying at the Royal Commission". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  5. ↑ "Cheers to Childbirth". Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  6. ↑ "Lucy Perry forced to step down as CEO of Catherine Hamlin's foundation". Women's Agenda. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  7. ↑ "Lucy Perry appointed CEO of Sunrise Cambodia". Women's Agenda. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  8. ↑ "Geraldine Cox searching for heir to orphanage welfare empire". Australian Story, ABC. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  9. 1 2 "Royal Commission into sex abuse: Knox boys 'cheered while girl was assaulted by headmaster Ian Paterson'". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  10. ↑ Fife-Yeomans, Janet (5 March 2015). "Knox grammar old boy saw headmaster hit girl on buttocks: 'it was more of a grope'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  11. 1 2 "Lucy Perry threatened with legal action over sexism comments on social media". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  12. ↑ "A SausageFest that can save the world". Daily Telegraph. Newscorp. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  13. ↑ "Welcome to the 2015 NAB Women's Agenda Leadership Awards". Women's Agenda. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  14. ↑ "The Wake Up Project". Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  15. ↑ "The top 30 charity CEOs on social media 2014". Social CEO's. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
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