Thanda Bennett has many years of experience working within the humanitarian and international community development sectors. As Field Human Resources Administrator with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) she supported its Australian operations to recruit, train and mobilise aid workers to take up missions overseas. She later worked with the Professional and Community Engagement, or PACE International program (housed at Macquarie University) where, as Program Officer, she managed final-year students to undertake projects with community-based organisations in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Thanda joined Australian Business Volunteers (ABV) in November 2021 as Program Officer.