Industry Associations
Founding and executive member for the Botanic Collections and Records Management (BCARM) group, Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ). Involvement with BGANZ has occurred over many years, including previous membership on the BGANZ Victoria Executive and a BGANZ Professional Development committee, including providing training support for members over a range of topics for many years. |
Voluntary Work
From 2013-2020, inaugural director of the non-political Global Gardens of Peace NGO (continue support as a life member and volunteer) - providing crucial contributions to successful international negotiations and partnerships, membership growth, fund raising, strategic planning and project development. Multiple trips were taken to the Middle East as a delegate to meet with multilateral representatives, national and local governments, botanic gardens, and universities. The aims of these engagements were to develop living landscape spaces for vulnerable children and families in Gaza https://globalgardensofpeace.org/ Recent voluntary work has involved working in Kenya, Africa with botanic gardens, government officials (including Office of the First Lady), NGO’s, academic institutions, and community organisations to progress best practices for climate mitigating tree planting strategies, advocacy for protecting plant biodiversity, and development of landscapes for human health and wellbeing. |