OFFICE MOB
Peter Webster
Chief Executive Officer
Carlene Davies
Adviser (Projects & Policy)
Tristan Abbott
Adviser (Partnerships & Policy)
Calyca Rogers
Early Years Coordinator (Connected Beginnings)
Harry Lill
Community Engagement Lead
John Cooper
Community Engagement Worker
Leilah Otieno
Alcohol and Other Drugs Project Coordinator
Rob Chapman
Technical Adviser (Evaluation)
Allison Clark
Technical Adviser
(Data & research)
Peter is a proud Kamilaroi man from Narrabri central N.S.W. He is married with two adult daughters and a granddaughter and has also raised three children in kinship care.
Peter joined the BBY team as CEO in August 2024, following many years as CEO of an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation in Melbourne. He has over a decade of experience working within the Victorian Aboriginal community and has successfully led an increase in community engagement and growth in services.
In Victoria, Peter was heavily involved in community over many years, sitting on a number of justice and child protection advisory committees advocating for his community. This experience included 7 years at the Koori Court for both young people and adults, and time as a volunteer bail justice.
Peter is passionate about fostering social and cultural connections, celebrating his rich heritage, and promoting self-determination and healing. Peter is deeply committed to community well-being and thrives on making a positive impact.
Carlene is a local Aboriginal woman of Miriwoong and Waanyi decent, born and raised in the East Kimberley and is a mother to her young son.
Carlene joined the BBY team in October 2023. She has spent the past several years primarily working with Aboriginal Corporations in various roles from community engagement, management, administration, project coordination and delivery. One of her proudest professional achievements when she had the opportunity to meet and work closely with Traditional Owners throughout the East Kimberley.
Having grown up in the Kimberley, she has witnessed first-hand the many issues and obstacles Kimberley Aboriginal people are faced with on a daily basis.
Carlene sees working with BBY as a great opportunity to continue her personal and professional journey in striving for better outcomes and opportunities, as well as progressing and achieving change within our community.
Tristan was born and educated in Armadale, Western Australia (but keep that to yourself). He has built his career working in student attendance, engagement and wellbeing across the state, including serving as a Deputy Principal, East Kimberley Regional Attendance Coordinator, and the caretaker of Kununurra’s most ridiculous moustache.
Tristan tries to keep things practical, and people focused. Through his work, he’s seen first-hand the barriers many local families face in accessing the same services and opportunities people take for granted in places like Perth or Sydney, and he’s determined to play his part in changing that. At BBY, he hopes to help bring people together, back local ideas, and make sure community voices lead the way.
In 2023, Tristan led the development of the East Kimberley Early Diversionary Support Network (EDSN), a way for different services to work better as a team and support families earlier. It made it easier for agencies to stay connected and for families to find the help they needed.
Outside of work, Tristan is a former state and first-grade Rugby League player, now held together mostly by surgical metalwork and stubbornness. His hobbies include supporting an atrocious NRL team and sitting beside rivers for hours on end, confidently pretending he knows how to fish. In 2024, he briefly celebrated making the Barra Metre Club, only to learn the fish — much like his NRL team — fell narrowly short of the line.
Calyca is a Jaru, Waanyi/Garawa woman raised in Kununurra with family ties stretching from remote East Kimberley communities through to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Calyca joined the BBY team in April 2024 in the role of Community Development Adviser (Early Years). She is passionate about early years pedagogy and Aboriginal ways of learning and wants to one day see a world where all children reach their full potential.
Calyca has over 10 years of early childhood experience working in a regulated care environment and was previously the Director at Woothoo-woothoong thoon Ninggoowoong Dawang Children’s Service. She is skilled in developing and facilitating educational training programs specialising in supporting children holistically to thrive and strengthening the knowledge and skills of peoples working with children.
Calyca believes strongly that strengthening relationships between communities will strengthen outcomes for all involved. She is committed to empowering First Nations peoples to achieve self-determining outcomes to Close the Gap. She sees working with BBY as a way of positively contributing to the community she loves and advocating for our future leaders.
In 2025, Calyca took on the role of Early Years Coordinator, taking on the lead for the Connected Beginnings project. Kununurra was selected as the 50th expansion site for the program with outreach to Wyndham and Halls Creek.
Harry was born and raised in Dunsborough, on Wadandi Country, in South-West Australia, spending most of his younger years at the beach, playing footy and running around in the bush. He moved to Kununurra in November 2025 with his partner and 6-month old daughter, when he joined the BBY team as the Community Engagement Lead.
Harry has a background in community development and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and native title. He has lived and worked across Arnhem Land, the Torres Strait Islands and regional Western Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Certificate in International and Community Development from Deakin University.
Harry feels privileged to live and work in the East Kimberley and to spend his weekends exploring the waterholes, rivers and country with his young family. He is committed to working closely with community members to understand what matters to them and help support good and meaningful change.
John is an Aboriginal man, born in Kununurra, with connections to the Jaru and Bijarnntu mob, and raised in the communities of Doon Doon and Wyndham.
Before joining BBY, John completed an electrical apprenticeship at Argyle Diamond Mine and has worked with Job Pathways at various points in his career—as a Supervisor, Community Liaison Officer, and Community Project Coordinator. These roles allowed John to connect with locals across different communities in the East Kimberley.
John is passionate about Country, community, people, culture and fishing.
John is passionate about helping communities thrive and move towards a better, clearer future. He wants to support those who just need a bit of a push to build a strong, empowered community. As an Engagement Worker, he hopes to bring a lot of his experience and knowledge to the table and help communities get on the right track.
John is an Aboriginal man, born in Kununurra, with connections to the Jaru and Bijarnntu mob, and raised in the communities of Doon Doon and Wyndham.
Before joining BBY, John completed an electrical apprenticeship at Argyle Diamond Mine and has worked with Job Pathways at various points in his career—as a Supervisor, Community Liaison Officer, and Community Project Coordinator. These roles allowed John to connect with locals across different communities in the East Kimberley.
John is passionate about Country, community, people, culture and fishing.
John is passionate about helping communities thrive and move towards a better, clearer future. He wants to support those who just need a bit of a push to build a strong, empowered community. As an Engagement Worker, he hopes to bring a lot of his experience and knowledge to the table and help communities get on the right track.
Rob joined BBY in January, 2024 as a Technical Adviser (Evaluation). Born and raised in Sydney on Dharug country, Rob has been living in Katherine, on Jawoyn, Wardaman, and Dagoman country since 2004. With over two decades of hands-on experience in community development across northern Australia, Rob's work is driven by a commitment to supporting Aboriginal communities in defining and realizing their aspirations.
Rob holds a Master of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne's Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE). His work across a diverse range of evaluation settings has equipped him with a robust foundation in data gathering, analysis, research, and evaluation with a community development approach.
Passionate about contributing to positive change, Rob is dedicated to utilizing evaluation as a tool to understand and improve actions and ideas, fostering empowerment within communities to bring about the changes they want to see.
Allison (she/her) joined BBY in 2025 as Technical Advisor (Data). Allison’s home is on Bunurong/ Boon Wurrung Country, part of the Kulin Nation, which she shares with her dog, husband, adult sons and their partners.
Allison has over 20 years’ experience in research and evaluation in the private and not-for-profit sectors. She is skilled in all aspects of running evaluations, from research, developing a framework, and methodology, stakeholder engagement and client liaison, ethical considerations and applications, qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, visualisation and reporting.
Allison has a Master of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in International Development Practice and a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry, Microbiology), both from Monash University.
Allison’s passion for social justice drives her commitment to community driven data and evaluation for meaningful impact.