Amanda Tattersall is well recognised as a leading coalition builder and social change campaigner in Australia.

She is the founder and Director of the Sydney Alliance, a diverse coalition of unions, community organizations and religious organizations working for the common good for a fair, just and sustainable city.

She has been the President of the National Union of Students (NSW Branch), founded Labor for Refugees, co-founded and is the chair of  www.getup.org.au – an internationally renowned Australian web-based campaign organisation with over 350 000 members.

She has worked as a union organiser and is currently an elected official (Deputy Assistant Secretary) with Unions NSW, the central labor council in Sydney NSW representing 600 000 workers.

She completed a PhD on coalition unionism at the University of Sydney featuring case studies of coalitions from Sydney, Chicago and Toronto. In undertaking this research, she spent two years living in the United States and Canada as a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School.

Power in Coalition is based on her research and wide experience as a union and community organiser. The views and opinions in that book are the authors (and not necessarily the organisations in which she is involved).

Amanda is married to comedy writer Charles Firth, and the mother of two year old Hartley and baby Angus.

Amanda is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. She is available for media interviews and speaking engagements.

You can download Amanda Tattersall CV Sept 2010, or a Short Bio Amanda Tattersall.

Contact Amanda directly at amandatattersall@gmail.com.