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.

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.

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.

Calyca Rogers joined the BBY team in April 2024 in the role of Community Development Adviser (Early Years). 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. 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.

Domino Bidwee joined BBY in January 2025. Domino is a local Miriwoong man from Kununurra with ties to mob all over the East Kimberley. He is a proud father to a young 8 year old daughter and he enjoys spending time with family, going out bush, fishing and swimming.

Domino previously worked as an Argyle Ranger for five years at the Argyle Diamond Mine following its closure as an operating diamond mine. His role included monitoring and maintenance of the site, coordinating meetings with Traditional Owner’s, and caring for country.

Domino is excited to get back into a community facing role where he gets to work with people from all over the Kimberley’s. He hopes to be a role model for his little one, be a positive influence to friends and family and give back to the community he calls his home. 

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.