Trish Spargo is a senior disability policy advisor and strategist with over 20 years of experience working to improve social justice and equity for people living with disability in South Australia. Trish has served as a non-executive director and trustee on disability and health not-for-profit boards and is an AICD graduate of the Governance Foundations Program for Not-For-Profit Directors.
She has extensive experience working across government and statutory settings in disability service delivery and redevelopment, person-centred planning, public policy, cultural change projects, research, and law reform. She has previously worked as the Manager of Strategy, Policy and Engagement at the Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia and as a Senior Policy Officer within the South Australian Government Royal Commission Response Unit providing advice to Cabinet on matters and recommendations arising from the Disability Royal Commission.
Anchored in her life long experience of disability, Trish chairs the JFA board working to assist people living with disability to get a fair go.