Katherine has extensive experience working in the criminal justice system. She held lead policy and project roles in the SA Attorney-General’s Department (including Justice Youth Reform), SA Health (forensic mental health), SAPOL (State Intelligence Branch, Major Crime Investigation Branch and Special Crimes Investigation Branch), Child Protection, Department for Correctional Services, Equal Opportunity Commission and SA Parliament. She was the Sexual Assault Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra, and the Projects and Research Manager for the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), where she managed large research projects. She was also a Board member and then Quality and Research Manager for Victim Support Service. She has a particular interest in policy, practice and research translation relating to violence against women and children, youth justice and corrections, as well as therapeutic jurisprudence and trauma-informed criminal justice practices. In 2015, she was appointed by the Minister for Correctional Services as the victim representative on the Parole Board of South Australia, and was re-appointed in 2018 and 2021. Katherine completed an Honours Degree in Law at Flinders University solely to learn about criminal law. She has an Honours degree in Psychology, exploring the prediction of violent recidivism by surveying people in prison. She planned to be a criminal profiler, but her hopes were dashed when she met the only FBI-trained profiler in Australia who dissuaded her. Katherine briefly entertained the idea of becoming a lawyer, completing her Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice in 2010, and is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Katherine was a 2018-2021 RTPd PhD Scholarship recipient and completed her PhD in 2022. Having interviewed many chronic offenders who have trauma histories, she examined current trauma-informed sentencing practices. She found that while there is a judicial appetite for trauma-informed sentencing, there is a need to better understand and implement practices that are evidence- and trauma-informed to better promote community safety.She is currently writing her first book.