I guide my team to ensure the API provides high quality education choices to property professionals to reduce risk and enhance confidence in their professional services. I also manage membership services and am responsible for future proofing the membership of the API.

Experience; thought process and personality

A move away from traditional roles and hours. Gender diversity at the top won’t happen if it is impossible for women to juggle parenting with the demands of a legal career. Our common law legal system means that students from civil law nations will be less likely to study here or move here to practice law. As a result we have a homogenous profession. We need to encourage a diverse student population which more accurately represents the Australian demographic. We do this by removing financial barriers to studying law. When I taught at UQ law- it appeared that 99% of first years were from GPS schools. What does that say for diversity of thought, social and economic backgrounds and understanding of community?

In truth it was curiosity. I am driven by a desire to understand why and law was a way to understand how society is governed, to gain insight into human behaviours and to help out those in need.