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I grew up in the Northern Territory in a remote community which shaped my values and provided me with a lot of resilience. I am a very family orientated person and love to spend my spare time with family. I have quite a big family with four children and nine grand kids. I enjoy bush walking, photography, travelling, exploring, and going on adventures.
I am currently the Senior Program Officer for IBA’s Business Solutions Team in Cairns (Yidinji Country). My role involves a continuous improvement approach to identify opportunities and solutions during program/projects lifecycles, provide advice, training and support to internal Business Solutions staff, wider IBA networks and external customers.
For example, First Nations workshop attendees, organisations and facilitators, report on and monitor our KPIs to ensure our targets are on track and review quality standards along with considerable work on the systems and processes that support these projects.
I studied and went to school in Queensland. I attended James Cook University where I did a degree in Business. I have worked in several different places ranging from Federal and State Government to major banks and non-for-profit organisations.
Over the last five years I have been working in the Indigenous non-for-profit sector and was mainly based in Northern Territory and the Cape in far north Queensland. After a while I realised, I wanted to be closer to family and saw a position at IBA in Cairns open. I decided to take the chance and have been here for almost a year now.
I have always had a passion for family especially children, I believe to help children and families we must look at how we can help adults. When I lived in Northern Territory, I witnessed first-hand the impact of poverty, homelessness, and the discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
My job allows me to support and create an impact within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It is creating and establishing action to encourage impact, physical action will get an outcome.
I grew up riding horses and always thought they were beautiful spirits, especially Arabian horses. They are such a fiery horse, that smell and look nice. They have such healing spirit, that I sometimes prefer them over people.
