Di Surgey was an ARROW Board member from 1999-2005. 

Di is an elder in the ARROW circle of wisdom. Her work in women’s health was in Melbourne, Australia.

In the early 1980s Di was a founding worker of the Women’s Health Resource Collective, an organisation committed to the development of women’s health and empowerment through a ‘by women, for women’ approach. Later that decade Di provided leadership to a team of bicultural, bilingual women working for women’s occupational health and safety in the industrial setting through the Centre for Multicultural Women’s Health. In the ‘90’s Di was CEO of North East Women’s Health Service. In 2000 she joined the Resourcing Health and Education in the Sex Industry team at a local community health service where she developed education resources with and for sex workers.

As a social researcher Di has focused on issues confronting marginalised women, such as problem gambling, work conditions in the sex industry and discrimination against cultural minorities.  In recent years Di has been a carer and returned to study to meet the challenge of becoming a silversmith and jeweller. Di was a member of the first ARROW Programme Advisory Committee in 1994. She was co-opted to the inaugural ARROW Board where she served a further eight years until 2005.

She has made contributions to many ARROW publications through writing, editing, design and layout and she developed the design templates and logos for ARROW’s Annual Reports. She has provided informal mentorship to a number of staff over the years and at a more formal level has contributed actively to policy and organisational development. Di would say her expertise is the organisation of ARROW.