Tahlia-Rose Vanissum is a proud Woppaburra woman with a disability, a carer for her mother, and a Traditional Owner of the Keppel Islands. She brings lived experience of domestic and family violence and is deeply committed to exposing the institutional and systemic discrimination that perpetuates cycles of violence, exploitation, and marginalisation against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Tahlia-Rose has worked across government, private, and community sectors to strengthen policies, programs, and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, girls, and mob with disability. Her expertise spans Indigenous feminisms, disability rights, organisational governance, intersectional analysis, policy reform, public administration, family safety, education, and social justice.

Tahlia-Rose is the inaugural Chairperson of Sisters in Spirit Aboriginal Corporation, a Board Director at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), and a Research Committee Member of the National Disability Research Partnership (NDRP). Tahlia-Rose has previously served as Chair of the ACT Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Women and as a Board Director of CIT Solutions and as a Member of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap’s Justice and Housing Policy Partnerships.

Tahlia-Rose has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors' (AICD) Company Directors Course and holds tertiary qualifications in government, business, leadership, and human resources management, alongside a Bachelor of Criminology from the Australian National University (ANU).

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