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2024 Alumni Award winners

Grant and Sharon Grosser

Grant and Sharon Grosser

Winners of the Distinguished Alumni Award 2024

Diploma of Teaching (Secondary), 1988

Graduate Diploma of Business (Secretarial Studies), 1989
Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary), 1992

Teachers turned Business News Rising Stars and EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, Grant and Sharon are the brains behind the end-to-end school teaching and learning software program, SEQTA. Having both worked in the classroom themselves, Grant and Sharon recognised a need to support the teaching community, and it was at their kitchen table in 2006 that they created the idea for an all-in-one software system that could connect parents, children and educators. In creating SEQTA, now used by teachers and families across the world, this couple has had an immense impact on the global education sector.

Jody Broun

Jody Broun

Winner of the Community and Impact Alumni Award 2024

Diploma of Teaching (Secondary), 1984
Bachelor of Education (Secondary – Pre-Service), 1987

Since graduating from ECU with teaching qualifications, Jody has transitioned out of the classroom and has held numerous senior positions across government and non-for-profit sectors over the last three decades. In her current role as the CEO of the National Indigenous Australians Agency in Canberra, she is responsible for ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered. Doubling as an award-winning artist, Jody is renowned as one of the great chroniclers of Australia’s red centre and has exhibited nationally as well as overseas in Singapore, London, Milan, Kyoto and Mauritius. She has been a winner of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the Canberra Art Prize.

Shenelle Rodrigo

Shenelle Rodrigo

Winner of the International Alumni Award 2024

Bachelor of Business, 2018

A trailblazer in the field of content creation, Shenelle served as the Official YouTube ambassador for the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau, and today runs the leading independent digital promotions platform for the tourism industry of Sri Lanka. Shenelle has more than half a million subscribers across her social platforms, and with over 40 million views annually promoting travel and trade to Sri Lanka, her work has reached audiences from around the world to show the untapped potential Sri Lanka has to offer. In 2022 she received the prestigious title of "The Best Youth Tourism Promoter" from Women in Management and she has been lauded by the country’s former Prime Minister for her work "taking Sri Lanka to the world.”

Amy Manford

Amy Manford

Winner of the Young Alumni Award 2024

Bachelor of Music, 2013
Graduate Diploma of Music, 2014

Since graduating from WAAPA, Amy has taken the performance world by storm. In 2019, the soprano soloist landed what is known as the leading role in the world of musical theatre, playing Christine in Phantom of the Opera on London’s West End. Amy regularly gives solo performances for the British Royal Family, and has toured with tenor, Andrea Bocelli. On home soil, here in Australia, Amy sang the national anthem at the 2021 AFL Grand Final and has co-founded a highly successful production company 'MM Creative Productions', which is currently touring Disney 100: The Concert nationally and around the world.

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