Benjamin Brien Email & Phone Number

👨🏼‍🎓 2023 New Colombo Plan Scholar & Alumni - Honorary recipient of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)’s New Colombo Plan scholarship for the Indo-Pacific region to the Republic of Korea and Thailand.🧠 Professional experience includes lived experience/peer, mental health, and suicide prevention roles, working across community mental health, inpatient and non-clinical suicide prevention settings.📚 Current Bachelor of Social Work studies with Charles Sturt University, including student ambassador and mentor roles, and formal student representative positions on school and faculty boards.🗣️ Various current and previous consumer & lived experience representative, advisory and advocacy roles in regional, state and national-level advisory committees, providing lived experience and community advice and input.🇰🇷 Beginner-level Korean speaker - Undertook intensive language courses at two private Korean academies while living abroad in Korea.🏬 Previous ten years experience working in the hospitality and retail industries, including supervisory and management positions.