I was born and grew up in Darwin, a meeting place for millennia where my father born in Italy and my mother of second generation Scottish, English and German heritages. I still live in and care for this place as mother to one child, partner, daughter and part of an extended family. 

I wonder if how we think and work together is part of the many crises we face. I am completing doctorate research into collaboration for complex social issues. This thesis is based on my work with teams of staff in schools and as a Backbone Facilitator of the community-led Sanderson Alliance of everyone who wanted to work together for children in the Northern Suburbs of Darwin. 

I have an ongoing interest in documenting stories and ways of working together with community leadership on community priorities and integrated service delivery. I convene a Multicultural Community of Practice for Intergenerational Healing and Trauma Informed Care that resolves to bring their meetings in nature. 

I am employed as the Assistant Director Leadership and Development at the NT Department of Education where we are articulating essential leadership practices for inclusion and inquiry in culturally diverse and otherwise socially complex contexts for school and system improvement. 

My superpowers

• Listening and sensing ways forward

• Seeing and responding to patterns in the moment, across time, place and scales.

• Conceptual, thematic summation of all the things.