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Matt Eastman

BA (Psych), MTeach (Prim), M.Ed (Spec Ed), M.Ed (Ed Lead), M.Ed (Ed Psych)
SPELD NSW Treasurer

Matt joined the SPELD NSW board in 2025, he is a proud public school Deputy Principal (Inclusion & Support) who is committed ensuring all children receive to succeed. He has worked in schools for over two decades and believes strongly in the power of education. Matt has held numerous leadership and governance positions on committees and associations int he community and has a long history of serving as a NSW Justice of the Peace, understanding duty, integrity, and service.

Matt brings strengths in educational leadership, strategy, risk, compliance, and stakeholder engagement, with postgraduate qualifications across educational leadership, psychology and special education, and is currently completing an MBA.

Kate Minogue

Bachelor of Arts Macquarie University, Master of Teaching (Secondary) UTS

SPELD NSW Board Member

Kate is a communications specialist with 30 years working as a journalist and as media manager for the NSW government and not-for-profit organisations.
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Professor Saskia Kohnen

SPELD NSW Board Member

Saskia Kohnen joined the SPELD NSW board in late 2022. Saskia has a long history of supporting people with literacy difficulties, their teachers, tutors and clinicians.  A Professor at ACU’s Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Saskia conducts research on how children learn to read and spell, what can complicate this process and how to assess and intervene for reading and spelling difficulties. Her work has resulted in many peer-reviewed publications as well as tests used by teachers, clinicians, tutors and researchers.
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Troy Verey

SPELD NSW Chair

Troy is a deputy principal at Marsden Road Public School (Liverpool NSW) and has over 10 years of teaching and leadership experience in English and Australian schools. His professional interests focus on shifting the culture of education from one based on ideologies to one based on science, and his current projects include developing teacher curriculum content knowledge, cultivating evidence-based pedagogy and improving assessment practices for literacy and numeracy.
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Ingrid King

LLM (Hons) (Casework) (UTS), BA/LLB (ANU)

SPELD NSW Board Member

Ingrid is a barrister at the NSW Bar and has family member with complex learning difficulties so has observed the frustrations of a person with learning difficulties within an education system that is not always responsive to their needs.
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David Kinnane

B.Bus, LLB (Hons.), MSLP, CPSP

SPELD NSW Board Member

David Kinnane joined the SPELD NSW Board in 2019. David runs an independent speech, language and reading clinic Banter Speech & Language based in Sydney.
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Jackie Connor

MAICD | Dip Teach

SPELD NSW Board Member

Trained as an Early Childhood Educator Jackie moved into the printing industry. As a business owner Jackie brings a wealth of governance and strategic business skills to SPELD NSW.
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