The 3rd Space Team
The Senior Leadership Team
MATT KEARNEY
Chief Executive Officer
Matt Kearney commenced as Chief Executive Officer of 3rd Space in April 2026. Born and raised in Ipswich, he began his career in South East Queensland before spending the past decade with St Vincent’s Health Australia, most of that time serving as Executive Director of Mission & Health Equity at St Vincent’s Public Hospital Sydney. Currently, Matt also serves as Board Chair for the Haymarket Foundation, a homeless service in Sydney. Until recently he was a Director of End Street Sleeping Collaboration in NSW.
Matt has maintained a lifelong connection to homeless services, beginning as a Rosies volunteer in the early 1990s. He holds a Master of Counselling, a Master of Business Administration and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Matt is deeply committed to strengthening compassionate, dignified services and improving supported pathways to housing for people experiencing homelessness.
AMY CAHILL
Services Manager
Amy leads the Services Team at 3rd Space, overseeing service delivery, staff development, and participant outcomes. Her role combines operational leadership with strategic planning to ensure programs meet community needs and align with best practice.
With international experience across mental health, criminogenic rehabilitation, and public health sectors, Amy has held roles including Practice Lead, Senior Clinician, and Project Manager. She also holds a PhD in Psychology, focused on public attitudes and preventative approaches, a framework now informing global anti-stigma and early-intervention initiatives.
Amy is passionate about creating a psychologically safe workplace and embedding culturally safe, strengths-based approaches. Her vision is to strengthen practice frameworks, foster partnerships, and drive service innovation to help individuals move out of homelessness and into sustainable futures.
ONOLINA MOEFAAUO
Operations Manager
Onolina’s professional journey has been shaped by a passion for people, service, and community. Drawing on her background in hospitality, events management, and community engagement, she brings a relationship-focused approach to leadership and operations at 3rd Space.
She believes that meaningful change begins with connection and strives to create spaces where everyone feels welcomed, heard, and valued. Whether supporting staff and volunteers, strengthening partnerships, or improving organisational processes, Onolina is motivated by the opportunity to help others succeed.
Her commitment to community building and inclusive leadership reflects her belief that every person deserves dignity, belonging, and the chance to thrive. Through her role at 3rd Space, she is proud to contribute to an organisation that supports people through some of life’s most challenging circumstances while fostering hope and connection.
EMILY WASIK
Community Engagement & Executive Support Lead
Emily has spent the past two decades working as a community engagement lead, communications/marketing director, fundraising specialist and high-impact storyteller for social advocacy nonprofits like the RBWH Foundation, United Nations, International Rescue Committee and the NY State Department of Health, global media companies like The Economist, HuffPost and TED to leading creative agencies/world brands like Google, PSFK, Microsoft and Disney.
Having worked across three continents – in NYC, Berlin, London and Brisbane – she specialises in executing impactful community engagement, leading cross-functional teams and utilising her communications acumen to drive success across social/economic impact, community services, healthcare, fundraising, philanthropy, corporate operations, tech, innovation, policy, education, sustainability and future-readiness – and the pivotal nexus where all these things intersect.