Daniel Briggs
Daniel is a commercial Barrister at the Victorian Bar and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Sandro Demaio Foundation.
With a passion for helping create positive change in the community, Daniel brings to his role on the board both his legal expertise and extensive experience in leadership roles in charities such Make-A-Wish® Australia, St John’s Ambulance, Surf Live Saving Victoria and NCDFREE.
Daniel holds Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. He started his career as a lawyer at Arnold Bloch Leibler in 2009, before coming to the Bar in 2013.
In 2013, Daniel was elected President of the the Bayside Branch of Make-A-Wish® Australia, a role in which he served until 2016, before stepping down to serve as Vice President until 2017. In 2015, Daniel became a director of NCDFREE, a crowdsourced global social movement dedicated to getting NCDs (non-communicable diseases) on the map of young people around the world. That year, Daniel was part of a small team which organised, produced and delivered the first iteration of festival21 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Building. Daniel currently serves on the Health and Wellbeing Committee of the Victorian Bar.
Dr Christina Zorbas
Dr Christina Zorbas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) and Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University.
Her extensive experience and leadership in mixed-methods research has helped to advance our knowledge of policy levers to reduce inequities in population nutrition. This has included streamlining food price and affordability monitoring systems and research programs focused on elevating the voices of people with diverse lived experiences in food policymaking processes.
Christina has a PhD in Public Health Nutrition from Deakin University (2021) and a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) from Monash University (2017).
Receiving three competitive research fellowships from Deakin University, VicHealth and the Australian Research Council since completing her PhD, Christina has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles and her work has featured widely in mainstream media such as ABC radio, TV and print. She has been awarded grants totalling >$4 million, including UNICEF projects to advance nutrition amongst adolescent girls in South Asia, and work with the International Food Policy Research Institute to advance global commitments to ending hunger and achieving food security.
Dr Liza Barbour
Liza is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, where she focuses on promoting healthy, equitable, and environmentally sustainable food systems.
An Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD), Liza brings over 20 years of practical experience to her research, education and community activities. She has worked across Australia and internationally—including in the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia, and at the Kingdom of Tonga’s Ministry of Health. She previously served as National Nutrition Programs Manager at SecondBite and remains an Australian Advisor to the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations (ICDA) sustainable food systems toolkit. Her PhD explored the role of local government policy in driving widespread adoption of healthy and sustainable diets, and Liza led the development of Dietitians Australia’s first position statement on this topic. In 2024, she completed the Climate Leadership Accelerator at Small Giants Academy to deepen her understanding of the systems creating our current climate crisis.
Liza is passionate about creative approaches to capacity-building, where we can reimagine and shape a food system for people and nature to thrive together. She was involved in Festival 21 as a food systems dialogue facilitator and has become increasingly involved in the Little Food Festival since then. Her children, Elliot and Heidi, proudly contribute as Little Food Researchers, while her husband, James, is also involved as co-founder of their family business, Dillicious pickles.