I'm a heritage and museums practitioner, researcher and lecturer with experience in international museums and heritage work, particularly in international development contexts. I am currently Centre Manager for the Australian Centre of Public History and a Research/Engagement Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Over the last fifteen years, I have worked with communities to improve access to the arts and cultural heritage with and across national museums, universities and the private sector in three countries: Australia, the UK and Afghanistan. The thread running through my career is a commitment to helping organisations and institutions innovate and find new ways of serving, engaging with and working collaboratively with a range of audiences.

I have worked worked for a range of international museums and organisations across Australia, Afghanistan and the UK, including designing public programmes and community engagement for the British Museum and Leighton House Museum in London. In Afghanistan, I managed cultural projects for the Kabul based NGO Turquoise Mountain and worked as registrar on a project to digitise the entire collection of the National Museum of Afghanistan. I've worked as part of a team to evaluate UNESCO’s strategy to protect cultural and natural heritage in emergency scenarios.

In Sydney, I have worked at Museums of History NSW on a collaborative, co-designed project with members of Sydney’s Coastal Communities to surface First Nations insights and perspectives on the site of First Government House in order to update the National Heritage listing for the site with First Nations associations and stories. Prior to this, I project managed conservation management plans, social values assessments and worked across built heritage and archaeology projects with a focus on community engagement for GML Heritage.

My first book is out with Routledge: A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan: In the Shadow of the Buddhas (2024) and examines how politics and heritage are currently configured across a diverse range of governments, state and non-state actors, NGOs, individuals and forms of expertise – and why such intersections matter.