Anthony Camm
I am nominating for a second and final two-year term as President of AMaGA Victoria and would appreciate your support. Having served on the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee as Ordinary Member (2020–2022), Secretary (2022–2024) and President (2024–2026), I am committed to continuing steady stewardship of our organisation.

I bring to the role leadership experience and broad sector knowledge through experiences including Manager of the Eureka Centre since 2018, and Director of Ararat Gallery TAMA for 11 years. Past committee roles include Public Galleries Association of Victoria, NETS Victoria and Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists. Guided by our 2026–2029 Strategic Plan, I am committed to embedding equity, inclusion and wellbeing across the sector, and ensuring financial and organisational sustainability. I will continue to advocate strongly for AMaGA Victoria and its members at AMaGA National Council. As the largest state branch, with a proud history of achievement, we play a vital role supporting our peers nationally. I am committed to building on this legacy and supporting our talented team to deliver responsive, innovative and accessible services to our members. Please reach out to me at anthonycamm@ballarat.vic.gov.au to discuss my candidacy or any other AMaGA related matters.

Current role: Manager, Eureka Centre Ballarat

Monica Cronin
I have been working in museums for over fifteen years, and for the last couple of years I have held the role of Heritage Specialist for the City of Kingston, working with community heritage organisations as well as the city's own collections. Prior to this, I managed the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History: a small, niche museum existing within an organisation unrelated to the cultural heritage sector. This created an interesting set of operational complexities. It also means I bring a perhaps unusual perspective on how collecting organisations operate when they are non-core business for the overarching organisation, but still need to be a valuable contributor to the organisation's strategic objectives.

I have had a diverse career so far, including maritime heritage, policing, medical history, and now community heritage. I have also worked for AMaGA Victoria in the past as a MAP Co-manager, and currently serve as Vice President of the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee and as a member of the AMaGA Victoria Accreditation Advisory Committee.

Current role: Heritage Specialist, City of Kingston

Sione Napi Francis
I highly value museums, collections, research, and education, and through my broad work experience and a deep understanding of Indigenous world views, I can see many points of connection whilst serving on the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee. I can open dialogues and create space for those who need to speak, including First Peoples, migrant settler communities, and customary knowledge holders.

As a museum professional, cultural leader, and artist, I have over thirty years of experience working in museums and galleries, including serving on the state board of NAVA, the management committee of Gertrude Contemporary, and Pacific advisory groups for Museums Victoria and ICOM Australia. I am the current Secretary of the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee and currently employed at Museums Victoria as an Exhibitions Collection Manager.

In these uncertain times in the local and wider GLAM sector, I see continuing my role as AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee Secretary as vital. This includes empowering First Peoples, Pacific First Nations, and migrant diaspora through supporting open dialogues between communities, academics, and cultural institutions — and championing living representation and diaspora communities more broadly. I highly value cultural inclusion, decolonisation, climate emergency dialogue, and co-curating and co-development models in cross-disciplinary institutions across the Pacific region.

Current role: Exhibitions Collection Manager, Museums Victoria

As Curator at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, I develop diverse, yet audience-focused exhibitions, grounded in research, object and testimony selection, and community engagement. My role spans end-to-end exhibition delivery, including managing loans, logistics, contracts, documentation, and installation coordination. I work collaboratively across teams to realise projects that are aligned with the Museum’s strategic transition from a community organisation to a premier museum. My recent exhibitions include Kathy Temin: Marking Memory, Portraits of Survival and Zachor: Ask a Survivor, spanning both traditional and contemporary media.

Previously Assistant Curator at ACMI, I led temporary displays within the permanent gallery and contributed to major exhibitions, such as The Future and Other Fictions. My experience also includes coordinating national and international touring exhibitions, managing budgets and stakeholders, and supervising installations as a Touring Coordinator and Exhibition Project Officer. I have also held education-focused roles at Museums Victoria and the National Gallery of Victoria.

I am seeking to join the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee to actively engage with current conversations around professional practise, socially response exhibitions and cultural challenges. As a branch member I would advocate for inclusive, collaborative and innovative museum practice, whilst strengthening networks and championing Victorian museums and galleries, and their communities.

Current role: Curator, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

I’m nominating for the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee as an ordinary member because I’m committed to the idea of the GLAM and heritage sectors as being in the service of society. That conviction has shaped thirty years of academic and professional practice. Three themes run through this work: the conservation, interpretation, and management of sites of difficult histories; the value of local histories and community storytelling; and the wellbeing of the people who sustain our sector. I’ve tried to enact this at some of Victoria's most significant cultural heritage organisations, including the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), the Shrine of Remembrance, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, and now the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. For over a decade I also taught in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies programs at Deakin University, being inspired by working with the next generation of GLAM and heritage professionals.

AMaGA Victoria’s role in supporting and advocating for our sector is more important than ever, and I'm standing for the committee because I want to bring my experience to support this collective work.

Current role: Executive Director, Royal Historical Society of Victoria

I am a museum and digital content professional with nearly 20 years’ experience working across museums and heritage organisations, including Museums Victoria, the Jewish Museum of Australia, Koorie Heritage Trust and the Sovereign Hill Museums Association. I bring a unique combination of experience across curatorship, exhibitions and events, alongside digital engagement and content, enabling me to bridge museum practice with contemporary audience engagement.

In my current role at Sovereign Hill, I lead a team responsible for shaping audience engagement across one of Australia’s most significant living museums. This includes developing campaigns, interpretive digital content, and visitor communications that connect audiences to the diverse stories and people of the goldfields. I am passionate about connecting the public with our past through accessible and compelling experiences, combining strong curatorial foundations with storytelling and digital approaches to reach broader and more diverse audiences. I have a particular interest in working with regional and community museums, where this blend of skills can have real impact.

I’m interested in joining the AMaGA branch committee to contribute this cross-disciplinary perspective, support sector connection, and represent the interests of regional museums, helping to strengthen interpretation and audience engagement across the sector.

Current role: Media and Content Manager, Sovereign Hill

I serve as the Senior Curator, Conservator, and Collections Manager at the Islamic Museum of Australia. An interdisciplinary curator with expertise in cultural materials conservation, exhibitions and art history, I make critical decisions about how these precious cultural treasures are stored, conserved, and presented to the public, ensuring their preservation for future generations while maintaining their cultural significance and accessibility to diverse audiences.

My extensive 20+ years of experience spans both professional practice and academic scholarship, enhanced by international training and collaboration at prestigious institutions across the United States, Italy, and Egypt. In addition to museum operations, I played a key role in launching the Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize, a nationally recognised platform that celebrates contemporary Muslim creativity.

Current role: Senior Curator, Conservator & Collections Manager, Islamic Museum of Australia

I build strategy and community led outcomes with measurable impact. I have 25 years’ experience in community led practice and multidisciplinary experience, previously working at Multicultural Australia, CSIRO, Queensland Museum and State Library of Queensland. I hold a BA (Drama), BEd (Secondary), MEd (Leadership and Management) majoring in strategic management and organisational change.

I am currently the Project Lead of the Community Partnerships Program at Museums Victoria where I have built a community led practice model which asked our community to lead us in how we could work differently to address under representation in our gallery narratives, audiences and workforce towards advancing participation, cultural diversity and belonging. I presented the multi season artist led initiative Culture Makers to the International Council of Museums – Future of Museums at the International Council of Museums general meeting in November 2025. I now wish to contribute my unique knowledge and capabilities to my sector.

I am particularly experienced in achievement of the strategic goals of AMaGA Victoria in regard to workforce diversity. My recent work is demonstrated through our Hume City Council partnership which pointed at ways we could work with a rapidly growing corridor to collaborate with bi-lingual library storytellers that expanded our shared goals. Accessible Visitation & Multilingual Outreach increased visitation through culturally safe invitations and relationship building in our rich network of Victorian community-based organisations such as neighbourhood houses. Careers at the Museum partnered with African Australian organisation Ubuntu Project to support safe experiences of our institutional careers and built new professional networks for participants. Culture Makers broke new ground in how artists could collaborate with a museum and rethink how stories are told to deepen how we saw ourselves and each other. Thank you for considering my nomination to be an ordinary member on the AMaGA Victoria Branch Committee (2026-2028).

Current role: Project Lead, Community Partnerships Program, Museums Victoria

I am the Director of Community Engagement & First Nations at ACMI, and a highly respected Aboriginal leader with extensive experience across governance, public policy, and cultural institutions.

I have worked across Federal and State government, leading Aboriginal employment, education, and cultural safety initiatives for workforces of up to 9,000 staff. With formal training in governance and community development I have led teams delivering governance training to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations across Victoria, strengthening leadership capability and organisational sustainability.

I bring significant board and governance experience in the First Nations arts sector and was a former Director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal Theatre Company, Australia’s longest‑running First Nations theatre company for ten years. Throughout my career I have contributed to a range of arts boards and advisory committees.

At ACMI, I lead the organisation’s First Nations strategy in alignment with its Reconciliation Action Plan, ensuring First Nations voices are central to governance, programming, and community engagement, and supporting broader commitments to diversity and inclusion.

Current role: Director, Community Engagement & First Nations, ACMI

I bring nearly three decades of international experience across the Philippines, the USA, and Australia, working at leading cultural institutions and at the intersection of museums and education. Currently, as Academic Engagement Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Science Gallery Melbourne, I collaborate across nine faculties to enhance student learning through innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. I hold a PhD from the University of Melbourne, an MA in Museology from the University of Florida, and a BA in Philippine Arts from the University of the Philippines, and have been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, and Melbourne International Research Scholarship.

My work focuses on deep learning in both formal and informal environments. My PhD research on curated learning identified practical strategies museums can use to support meaningful learning experiences. I have also co-designed and delivered national museum training programs and authored Making Museums Work: A Zero In Handbook, a foundational resource in the Philippines. As current President of Education Network Victoria and an AMAGA Victoria committee member since 2024, I am committed to strengthening professional networks, advancing museum education, and contributing strategically to the Branch Committee.

Current role: Academic Engagement Fellow, Science Gallery Melbourne