The Integrity Army
Integrity Initiative is not a lone venture. Rather, it is led by a dedicated team of young advocates who share a passion for human dignity and a drive for change.
The 14 members of the Integrity Army are compassionate, kind, determined, and incredibly diverse. Together, we bring both Lived Experience and professional expertise across marginalised communities including LGBTQIA+, First Nations, Neurodivergent, regional/ remote and CaLD communities with experiences of mental ill-health, AOD challenges, homelessness, and beyond.
Meet Our Founder, Rachael Burns
Rachael is a passionate intersectional Lived Experience advocate, who - in 2024 - decided to start something revolutionary…
Rachael Burns (she/her) is a 23-year-old mental health, disability, and youth advocate with intersectional Lived and Living Experience fuelling her passion for change across the spaces of eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, neurodivergence, chronic ill-health, and beyond.
Rachael has worked widely across multiple domains of advocacy, serving on the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability, the Young Minds Our Future National Youth Reference Group, as a Community Ambassador for the Child and Adolescent Health Service and much more. She is also a member of several advisory groups and committees, including Embrace Collective’s Youth Crew, where she recently spoke at their 2025 Symposium.
Her storytelling and advocacy have reached broad audiences through contributions to the ABC, Embrace, The Kids’ Institute, and the Butterfly Foundation, and through her journalism for International Day of People with Disability.
Rachael also represented Australia in the 2025 ohort of Orygen Global’s ASEAN-Pacific Youth Mental Health Fellowship
... but most significantly, she is the Founder and CEO of Integrity Initiative.
Rachael endeavours to use her passion and her past experiences to benefit not just those experiencing similar circumstances, but also for the younger version of herself that needed someone to care.
Always was, always will be
Integrity Initiative acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, the Whadjuk Noongar people. We pay respect to Elders past and present, and extend our appreciation for their dedication to culture and their custodianship of what we now call Australia.