Meet the Team
Our Walk the Talk program is run in partnership with Enlighten Education, Australia's leading provider of in-school well-being workshops since 2003.
Director of Education & Lead Presenter
Dannielle Miller OAM
Dannielle is the Director of Education and Special Projects at Women’s Community Shelters, she is also the co-founder and CEO of leading in-school wellbeing providers Enlighten Education. Walk The Talk was her brainchild, and is based on a pilot project she developed as a pro-bono board member for The Sanctuary shelter located in North West Sydney.
She has engaged with thousands of students on respectful relationships and enthusiastic consent education nationally, and worked with leading corporates including KPMG and Lendlease. Dannielle is rolling out the latter's domestic and family violence training for them globally.
Dannielle is also a media commentator and best selling author. Her books include the title she co-authored with sexual assault activist Nina Funnell, Loveability - An Empowered Girl’s Guide to Dating and Relationships.
Education Officer
Julia Fleming
After completing a Master of Arts in Education Julia has taught in a variety of high school settings in New York City and Sydney with students from a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities. She has focused on students who have been underserved by traditional models of education and who often face multiple barriers to achieving their potential. She brings a passion for well-being and social justice education to her role as the connector for students through their service learning journey with WCS.
In addition to extensive experience in schools, Julia also brings business, branding and fund raising experience to the role and worked at a senior level for major advertising agencies at a national and global level.
Our Walk the Talk presenting team
Our workshops are delivered by award-winning presenters from Enlighten Education.
Goodfellas Program Director
Jack Ellis
Jack was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Throughout his education he embraced his many diverse interests; he studied drama while also being captain of the school AFL football team, and excelling in ballet classes. He studied Psychology at Flinders University before completing a Bachelor of Education/Arts (Flinders Uni), majoring in English and Drama. While studying Jack had a daily radio show at SAFM. He was Drama Coordinator at Saint Margaret Mary’s Catholic school in Adelaide before being accepted in the full time acting course at NIDA in 2012.
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Since graduating from NIDA in 2014, Jack has appeared in Channel 7’s Home and Away, feature film 2:22, short films Trigger and Stranger, as well as starring as the lead role in feature film, The Debt Collector. He recently performed the lead in New York in the off-Broadway production of Wolf in the River and starred in Netflix feature film Sweet River.
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Jack has worked as a movement/drama practitioner at NIDA, Sport for Jove Theatre company, Actors Centre, The Academy of Film, Television and Theatre School as well as the Sydney Drama School.
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Jack has delivered exceptional programs for boys with Enlighten Education for over five years. He is most proud of the work he has done to lead the facilitation of Walk the Talk with teen boys.
Presenter
Joy Adan
Joy is a Filipino-born presenter who grew up in Western Sydney. Her love for creativity and storytelling led her to study media production at Macquarie University, followed by a Master of Publishing at the University of Sydney. Her career in communications and marketing spans work in the higher education, tech, community, and not-for-profit sectors.
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As a writer, calligrapher and graphic facilitator, Joy is very attuned to the power of words. She uses her art to normalise conversations about culture, faith, gender norms and mental health. Joy has appeared on ABC’s podcast This Working Life, SBS Radio, SBS Insight, FBI Radio, 2SER and the online television series Real Women. She is a contributing author to Sweatshop Women Volume 1, the first Australian anthology written, edited and produced entirely by women from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
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Joy is also a podcast host, Raise Foundation mentor, Mental Health First Aider, Gidget Foundation Ambassador and the founder of ‘Finding Joy’, where she provides hand-made gifts and resources to encourage others to cultivate their own creativity and make time to find, express and celebrate the simple joys in life.
Presenter
Nikki Davis
A trained dancer and former dance teacher, Nikki spent a number of years performing as a dancer and modelling professionally after completing her Communications degree. Her passion for writing led to a position as the editor of a magazine for young dancers, and a scriptwriting role with a production company followed. Then she moved into a producer role, working on the creation of videos and special events, and often appearing on camera as host.
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Training to be a volunteer telephone counsellor with Lifeline gave Nikki the opportunity to explore her interest in counselling and psychotherapy, which she continues to study. It quickly became clear to Nikki during her time at Lifeline that she was particularly interested in social issues related to girls and women.
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A former high school student of Enlighten’s CEO, Dannielle Miller, Nikki wanted to be involved the moment she saw the work Enlighten was doing in the community. Experienced in front of a crowd, with lots of stories to tell and a special interest in young women, Nikki has a proven rapport with school-aged girls and offers a unique insight into the worlds of fashion, entertainment and the arts.