University of Southern Queensland; Queensland Health

I use She/Her pronouns and I am a PhD candidate with University of Southern Queensland and Senior Social Worker with Queensland Health. I am non-Indigenous Australian bisexual woman born on Wiradjuri lands in New South Wales, currently living on Yagara, Jagera and Ugarapul lands (Ipswich QLD), and I work on Giabal and Jarrowair lands (Toowoomba QLD). I grew up primarily with a single-parent low socio-economic family with intergenerational trauma and mental health histories within my legacy. I and am the eldest within a sibship of 4 and have two other siblings who identify within the LGBTIQA+ rainbow. I have a lived and living experience of mental health and neurodiversity and the first within my family to graduate university with a professional background in Social Work. Social Work as a profession is aligned with values of advocacy, social justice and enhancing capacity and I am proud to have the privilege of hearing and walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in my clinical and academic work. Having personally experienced upward social mobility from a disadvantaged background I am particularly interested in understanding and sharing the stories of other people who have experienced disadvantages and using my privilege to amplify these voices.