Mary Leaker is General Manager of Embolden, South Australia’s peak body for domestic, family and sexual violence services and a Board member of WESNET, the national peak for specialist domestic and family violence services. With a background in social work and social policy, Mary has diverse experience across delivery and management of non-government services and strategic policy and projects for government. Mary has a longstanding commitment to social justice and gender equality. Between 2018 and 2021, she led a project to improve how SA public sector agencies prevent, identify and respond to violence against women, in partnership with Our Watch and White Ribbon Australia. In late 2022, she undertook a Churchill Fellowship in the UK to gain insights into how coercive control laws are operating on the ground and emerging impacts for victim-survivors.
Mary Leaker
