About Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand
Fair Trade Association Executive Committee
Nimmity Zappert
Chair
Founder, All of the Good Things
About Nimmity
Nimmity is passionate about social enterprise and is a strong supporter of Fair Trade and ethical business practices.
Nimmity was inspired by the Fair Trade movement when she saw the positive direct impact on communities around the world. Nimmity brings her extensive international experience from the corporate and start-up software world to Fair Trade.
Nimmity runs her own Fair Trade business, All of the Good Things.
Carina Bekkers
Treasurer
Founder, Sanaa Afrika, The Fair Trade Way, Hope Tanzania Australia Inc
About Carina
Carina promoted African art and fair trade products for almost two decades as a trader, event organiser, and advocate. She attained Fair Trader of Australia accreditation and served two years as the Chair of the NSW Fair Trade Network Group.
Carina’s focus since 2016 is on building capacity of social enterprises operating in challenging environments as an independent social entrepreneur and on international assignments with the Australian Volunteers Program. She is the NSW Representative for the Returned Australian Volunteers Network, has a Master of Business Analytics, a Post Graduate Diploma in HR, and is currently studying towards a Masters in Human Resource Management.
Andy Good
Vice Chair
Fair Trade Advocate
About Andy
Andy’s involvement with Fair Trade started in 1984 when he founded a Fair Trade certified food distributor, Equal Exchange UK and was the MD until 2012. Andy co-founded CafeDirect in 1994 together with Oxfam GB, Traidcraft and Liberation Foods in 2004. He was also a board member of One World Shop Edinburgh from 1990–2002 and a Board member of WFTO from 1998-2000.
Andy brings a global perspective and combines extensive supply chain and marketing experience with a passion for empowering farmers and artisans.
Corinne Nash
Secretary
Fair Trade Advocate
About Corinne
Corinne moved to Australia from England in 1993. Through her involvement with the Uniting Church Corinne became interested in Fair Trade. Corinne was instrumental in facilitating Bangalow Byron Bay Uniting Church becoming a Fair Trade Faith Group and Bangalow itself becoming a Fair Trade Town.
Corinne joined John Martin as co-organiser of the Fair Trade Faith Conference in 2018.
In her spare time, Corinne runs a nutrition consultancy, garden, makes quilts and attempts to train two donkeys!
Susanna Bevilacqua
Founder/Director, Moral Fairground
About Susanna
Susanna founded Moral Fairground in 2009 after travelling in some of the poorest countries in South East Asia and witnessing first hand the working conditions and the environmental and social impact of mass consumerism. She decided to dedicate her time setting up an enterprise whose goal is to a build thriving, collaborative and socially conscious community that’s making a positive impact.
Susanna also had a long standing career of over 27 years as a professional in the banking industry with experience in managing and leading teams, developing Marketing and Sales Strategies, incubating and delivering community initiatives. Her career has also included numerous volunteering roles on boards of a number of community organisations.
Debra Maynard
Fair Trade Advocate
About Debra
Debra is a media and communications specialist who has worked with a range of not-for-profit organisations, running media and communications campaigns to drive awareness, reputation, supporter growth and funding.
She has experience in planning social enterprise strategies, managing governance and reporting, recruiting and managing volunteers, determining enterprise priorities and procuring funding.
She has had a longstanding involvement with fair trade as cofounder and director of WEFTshop, a social enterprise that has supported migrant and refugee artisans from Burma to create market-ready products, earn a fair living wage, and gain access to markets.
“My experience on the Thai-Burma border with talented artisans has made me resolute in wanting to see fair trade make a difference in disadvantaged migrant and refugee communities, and I would like to see Australia build its reputation as a member of the global movement”.
Ira Puspita
Fair Trade Advocate, Founder Kayu&Co
About Ira
In 2018, I decided to embark on a transformative journey, leaving my family’s business behind, and relocating to Australia to pursue a Master of Social Entrepreneurship degree. Kayu&Co. was born in 2021 when I saw the reality that at least 30% of artisans in the villages across Indonesia have left their job and moved to a megacity like Jakarta where they work as casual labourers and live in slum areas. Kayu means wood in Indonesian language and Co. stands for community. We produce a range of aesthetic homeware products handmade by artisans in the villages across Indonesia using the nature of circularity, recycle & upcycle.
Yvonne Scott
Fair Trade Advocate, Founder/Director Aware… the social design project
About Yvonne
Yvonne has devoted over 12 years to social enterprise and Fair Trade. From 2016, her fashion label and product designs were made through registered charity organisations and “Zenana Women,” an endorsed Fair Trader until its closure in 2020. Her current business, Aware … the social design project. With her in-house label, she is committed to sustainability, exclusively using handwoven, hand-block printed and GOTS certified cotton and dyes in fabric design and production.
Passionate about preserving artisan skills and using products to empower the vulnerable, Yvonne sees her shop front, as meeting people where they are at and taking them on a journey, introducing people to consumer power through Fair Trade.