The Marmalade Foundation Board

Alexa Haslingden, Chair

Alexa Haslingden joined The Marmalade Foundation in 2014, became a board member in 2015 and became Chair in 2017.

Alexa holds a degree in International Relations from Stanford University and has over 25 years experience in the advertising industry, having worked in the USA, Hong Kong, and Australia for J. Walter Thompson, DDB Needham, John Bevins Pty Ltd and Goldsmith-Jeffrey New York.  Alexa sits on the Board of Sydney Dance Company as well as The Racat Group which includes Northern Pictures, Junkee Media, Australian Geographic and Runaway Play Games.

Karen Martin, Treasurer

Karen joined the board in 2023 as Treasurer. She has a Commerce Degree from The University of NSW. She has over 20 years’ experience working in the fields of Project Management, Property Development, Marketing & Event Management and Investment Management. She currently works for a Family Office managing its investments and private Foundation. This Foundation focuses on the areas of mental health, social justice, homelessness and migrant worker rights.

MICHELLE FOX, Secretary

Michelle Fox joined the Board of the Marmalade Foundation at the end of 2021. Michelle is the managing partner of the Australian office of global law firm Quinn Emanuel. Michelle is qualified, and has practiced, in the US, the UK and Australia, and represents some of Australia’s leading companies in a broad range of complex litigation matters. Michelle graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and summa cum laude from Boston College Law School.

Rebecca Fitzpatrick

Rebecca Fitzpatrick began volunteering at Lou's Place as a specialist music teacher in 2009, joining the Marmalade Foundation in 2014 and the Board in 2016. She holds a BA in Music, Grad. Dip. Ed. in Secondary Education and an A.Mus.A. She has worked as a music educator, performer and conductor for the last thirty years both in established programs and creating new ones for schools and businesses. Rebecca is responsible for Volunteers at Lou's Place, and works at the Plunkett Street Playgroup project. She is also involved in mentoring programs and has links to volunteering in remote Indigenous communities.

Helen Fraser

Helen joined the Board in 2023.

Helen has a Bachelor of Nursing with postgraduate qualifications in HIV/AIDS Nursing and Oncology Nursing, a Master of Public Health and is an alumnus of the Vincent’s Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Fellowship.

Her 30 plus year career includes roles in clinical care, clinical research, health and medical research policy and tertiary education in Australia and overseas. She is currently working at the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Medicine and Health as the Associate Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Patyegarang Precinct.