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Scarlet Alliance Committee
The Committee is elected by the Scarlet Alliance membership at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to carry out the governance and oversight of our organisation. Our Committee is ultimately accountable to the membership and reports to members throughout the year and formally at the AGM. Learn more about our Committee and how to join here.
Jenna Love
President
Jenna is a sex worker living on Darug & Gundungurra land (Blue Mountains, NSW). She is an independent full service sex worker, adult content creator, and sex worker rights speaker & performer. This is her fifth year on the Scarlet Alliance Committee, and third as president.
Jenna is studying a Master of Social Justice (Human Rights), is co-host of adult industry podcast Somebody You Love, and a proud cat mum.
Riley Alexander
Vice President
Riley has been involved in peer advocacy and activism since 2010. Managing an online sex worker only safe space for 10 years, for which she won third place Whore of the Year two years in a row; the first time this award was ever given to someone for work in an online space.
She was a Vixen Committee member for seven years, four of which she was a delegate for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum. Riley has served on the committee since 2021. Riley is deeply passionate about sex worker activism and is devoted to making the world a safer place for sex workers.
Tia
Treasurer
This is Tia’s sixth year on the Committee and fourth year as treasurer, previously serving as president and general member. They have 12 years experience across many forms of sex work, with a focus on independent full service and BDSM, and are based in Naarm/Melbourne.
As ever they are pleased to have the opportunity to be involved in governance and supporting sex worker community and advocacy.
Moisty
Secretary
Mikhala
General Member
Mikhala (she/her) is a sex worker living in Sydney on Gadigal land. She has 14 years of experience in the industry as well as a decade of involvement in sex worker organising.
This is Mikhala’s second year on the Board.
Edie
General Member
Edie is a sex worker living and working on the unceded lands of the Ngambri and Ngunnawal
Peoples (ACT). Over the past decade, they’ve worked as an independent full-service provider in Berlin and within establishments in Australia.
Currently, Edie is a peer educator with SWOP ACT
and sits on the ACT LGBTIQA+ Ministerial Advisory Council. They see care as revolutionary
praxis and have a habit of “accidentally” foster-failing greyhounds. This will be Edie’s first term on the committee, they are humbled by the opportunity to contribute and grow alongside the sex
worker community.
Queenie
Double
Ashley
Double
Cara
Double
Our Staff
Secretariat
Mish Pony
Chief Executive Officer
Mish Pony (they/them) is trans/queer sex worker, whose career tanked when Backpage was taken down due to anti-sex work USA legislation. Mish was appointed CEO of Scarlet Alliance in early 2023. Mish has worked and volunteered with Scarlet Alliance since 2008 in a range of positions, including elected representative positions. Mish has over 15 years’ experience advocating for trans, queer and sex worker health and rights.
Mish previously worked at Twenty10, LGBTIQ+ Health Australia and TransHub, and was a director of Health Equity Matters (formerly AFAO) for 10 years. Mish currently serves as treasurer and acting chairperson of the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, and lives in and is a director of an inner-Sydney housing co-operative.
Mish was elected Scarlet Alliance Whore Of The Year in 2010.
Elena Jeffreys
Policy & Advocacy Manager
Magenta Green
Operations Coordinator
Miya Pittaya
Finance Officer
With many years experience in the field, Miya is a Finance Officer heavyweight. She’s on a mission to dispel accounting myths and support Scarlet Alliance to manage financial affairs efficiently while not compromising quality standards.
National Programs
Katia Schwartz
National Programs Manager
Katia Schwartz (she/her) began the role of National Programs Manager at Scarlet Alliance mid 2023. She is a Deaf, professional erotic performer and career sex worker since 2008. As a member of the disability, sex work and queer communities, Katia is a strong public advocate for inclusion, anti-discrimination and destigmatisation of marginalised groups.
Ari Reid
National Training Coordinator
Ari began in this role in 2021, but has a long history with the Scarlet Alliance training project since 2008. She is passionate about sex worker peer education and community development and has fulfilled various roles at both SIN and Scarlet Alliance since she began as a peer educator in 2004. She holds the Scarlet Alliance Diploma of community development, Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment, and when she is not working for Scarlet Alliance she teaches social work at Flinders University SA.
Alex James
Red Book Online Coordinator
Alex is the Policy Officer for the Red Book Online, a sexual health resource for sex workers by sex workers. They have an extensive background in sex education, inclusive health promotion, person-centred care and harm reduction. They also have lived experience in multiple kinds of sex work, queer and disabled communities and alternative sexuality spaces. Alex is passionate about finding innovative solutions to intersectional public health challenges with their helpful research assistant, Harlot the Cat.
Greta Desgraves
Policy Officer
National Programs
AMSWAG
Lutruwita (Tasmania) project
Eloise
Communications Coordinator
Position open
AMSWAG Coordinator
Andrew
Lutruwita (Tasmania) Project Coordinator
Andrew (he/they) is the coordinator of the lutruwita/Tasmanian Sex Worker Project. Andrew’s career has traversed corporate business, community service, humanitarian resettlement, and, of course, sex work, giving them a unique juxtaposed perspective – collar and tie one day, harness the next. Andrew focuses his efforts on the intersection of marginalised communities and mainstream service providers.
Sarai Sipriano
Lutruwita (Tasmania) Outreach Officer
Advisory Groups
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Sex Worker Advisory Group (ATSISWAG)
We are a Blak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sex Worker Collective founded by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers. We are inclusive of all types of Blak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers, whether out and proud, opportunistic or otherwise!
We work for the acknowledgement and respect of the differences and the diversity of the sex industry. We support and advocate for Blak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers. We consult and advise on all issues that affect us and represent our interest in the wider sex worker movement. We are always open to new members. If you are a Blak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex worker, Bunji man, Bunji woman, Ship Mole, Party Girl or Boy or if you engage in Selly Welly come join us! Email: ATSISWAG@scarletalliance.org.au
You can donate to ATSISWAG here.
Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group (AMSWAG)
Scarlet Alliance’s Migration Project was conducted with the guidance of regular steering committee meetings with sex workers from Chinese, Korean and Thai language backgrounds, as these are the languages most commonly used in the migrant sex worker community. This funded project delivered resources, research and advocacy for migrant sex workers until it was defunded in 2017. The steering committee members then become the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group (AMSWAG) with the intention to further develop and expand the existing resource and service delivery to CALD background and migrant sex workers.
The AMSWAG meets as regularly as possible to provide expert advice and representation within Scarlet Alliance and actively works towards guaranteeing the rights of all migrant sex workers.
You can donate to AMSWAG here.