Our Board

Anaab Rooble is an experienced human resources, finance and diversity and inclusion practitioner. She has 18 years of public services experience and currently leads the corporate service team of the Victorian Disability Worker Commission. She migrated to Australia from Somalia 23 years ago, spoke no English when she arrived, and civil war prevented her from education beyond Grade Five. Anaab enjoys revamping workplace cultures, driving diversity and inclusion initiatives and learnt that organisational change often relies on the individual to have the courage to speak up and highlight where inequality exists and to challenge the status quo and hopes to see a world where us and them no longer exist. Anaab has lived experience of intersectionality which she regards as additional strengths or as she often says, “I wear many hats”.

She is a woman who wears a hijab as she belongs to the Muslim faith, an African migrant, a person with a disability and a woman of colour! In general, women need to break the glass ceiling but when you add other diverse layers such as migrants, a person of colour and disability the layers get thicker. She is a strong advocate of disability employment and shared her lived experience in many forums. She is a proud member of the VPS Women of Colour Network as well as the VPS Enablers Network.