Marie Sellstrom is a leadership consultant who is the national president of Rural Australians for Refugees, an organisation that has a long and deep history with the ASRC.

Ms Sellstrom has served on a number of Boards most recently the Mansfield District Hospital Board. She has performed roles as varied as managing change at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, advising the South Australian Education Minister, director of human resources at Huntsman chemical company, and as a nurse.

Marie brings to the ASRC Board a strong voice of rural Australia and the welcoming and fair go nature that epitomises the commitment of activists living in country Australia.