Our Board

Our Board works collectively to advocate for the community mental health sector in the Northern Territory.

Rachael Bowker is the Chief Executive Officer of Darwin Community Legal Service. She is an experienced leader in the Northern Territory’s community sector, with a strong record in organisational management, rights advocacy and service improvement. Her work focuses on strengthening access to justice and improving outcomes for people facing hardship across the NT.

Rachael leads multidisciplinary teams across legal services, disability advocacy, tenancy support, financial counselling, seniors rights and older persons abuse outreach. She oversees strategic planning, governance, funding, and program delivery for a multi-million-dollar organisation, including services in urban, rural and remote communities.

Before joining DCLS, Rachael held senior roles across the community and volunteering sectors, including Executive Manager at Volunteering NT. She holds qualifications in leadership, governance, risk, community services and training. Rachael is committed to leading services that reflect the diverse cultures of the Northern Territory and respond to the practical needs of the communities she serves.

Rachael Bowker

Chairperson

Julia Wormer

Deputy Chairperson

Julia is a strategic and purpose-led executive leader with a passion for strengthening service systems and supporting community wellbeing and mental health. With 20 years’ experience across clinical, operational, and senior management roles, Julia has worked across the NGO and government sectors in both urban and remote contexts—bringing a deep understanding of the complexities of delivering person-centered mental health care in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland.

Her career spans a range of service areas, including early intervention, family support, child protection, youth, and adult mental health, where she has led multidisciplinary teams and driven programs that respond to the needs of individuals and families with compassion and integrity.

Julia is committed to recovery-oriented, evidence based, culturally safe, and trauma-informed practice and values the critical role of lived experience in service design and delivery. She is particularly skilled in navigating change, service establishment, and implementation, embedding strategic initiatives, and fostering strong partnerships that align with organisational goals and community priorities.

Julia’s leadership reflects her belief in building resilient teams, accountable systems, and mental health services that empower people to thrive.

Pam Marwood

Treasurer

BA, BSW, Grad Dip DSI

Pam Marwood is currently employed by Neami National as the Clinical Service manager at Darwin Head to Health and delivers several programs in the NT, the adult mental health centre in Casuarina, Psychological therapies program, an individual personal support program and Low intensity mental health groups.

Neami National is one the largest community mental health organisations in Australia. Pam has a career spanning over 30 years in management and community services across both government and nongovernment organisations.

Pam has an enduring commitment to social justice, equity, and reconciliation.

Karen McGlashan

Secretary and Public Officer

Karen McGlashan has been the CEO of the Top End Mental Health Consumer Organisation for just over 12 months. Based in Palmerston, Karen leads the only consumer-led mental health organisation in the local area. She and her team support members and participants with lived experience of mental health challenges across several programs, including the NT Peer Workforce Project and the Drop-In Support Service.

Karen’s career spans over 20 years in Community Services, including work in Aged Care (UK) and a long-standing career in Employment Services across North Queensland and the Northern Territory. She has worked across four employment services contracts, supporting jobseekers on their pathways into employment and education. Her work has included leading projects supporting First Nations to build skills and pathways into trade and transport industries, establishing remote service delivery in alcohol and other drug (AOD) rehabilitation centres, and working closely with Corrections to support pre-release prisoners to transition into paid employment opportunities. Karen brings a strong commitment to lived experience leadership, recovery-oriented practice, and improving social and economic inclusion for people experiencing mental health challenges.

Nicole Pietsch

Ordinary Member

Nicole Pietsch is the Chief Executive Officer and Suicide Prevention Lead at the Mental Health Association of Central Australia (MHACA). She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Communications Studies) and Certificate IV Community Services. She has more than 25 years’ experience in communications, community engagement, and health promotion plus an evolving interest in quality improvement in service delivery. She is currently the Chair of the Suicide Prevention Australia Northern Territory Committee and convenes the Central Australia Life Promotion Network.

Anthony Ah Kit

Co-Opted Member

Anthony Ah Kit (Snr) was born and raised in Garramilla/Darwin. Anthony’s mob are from Wurrumungu (Tennant Creek) and Waanyi (North West Queensland). For the past 30 years Anthony has worked in primary health care, alcohol and other drugs, community development, mental health and suicide prevention. Anthony utilises his own lived experience and that as a carer to inform his work. Anthony joined the board in 2024, having been on numerous boards throughout his career.

Erin Plumb

Ordinary Member

Erin is the Deputy CEO with Melaleuca Australia where she has worked since 2019. Erin’s commitment to humanitarian work began at nine, when a visit to a refugee camp in Thailand sparked a lifelong concern for human dignity and access to care. That experience led her to nursing and public health, and to a career spanning healthcare and humanitarian services in Australia and overseas.

Since working with Melaleuca Australia, Erin has helped shape organisational direction, strengthen standards and build the capability to deliver lasting impact. She connects purpose with strategy, sound governance and clear accountability, combining compassion with the resolve to ask difficult questions and turn values into practice. Developing others is central to her approach, creating opportunities for people to build confidence, exercise judgement and step into their potential.

Her contribution extends to the IRCT Health Board, NT Anti-Trafficking Working Group and Refugee Nurses Australia Executive, among others. She also chairs working groups, bringing people and perspectives together to deliver meaningful outcomes today while strengthening the capability to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Coming soon!

Johannes Scheiber

Ordinary Member