I am the Managing Director, Creative Executive and co-founder of Balarinji and Executive Director, Co-Chair and Co-Founder of Moriarty Foundation.Balarinji is Australia’s most highly awarded Indigenous design and strategy studio, best known for the Balarinji-Qantas collection of art aircraft featuring Aboriginal designs. Established in 1983, Balarinji’s work for public and private sectors spans public art and curatorial, cultural design principles for major infrastructure, stakeholder engagement, branding campaigns and digital. The studio’s clients include Austrade, Transport for NSW, Microsoft, Department of Defence, Macquarie Group, NSW Treasury, Qantas, Australian Paralympic Committee, GPT, Frasers Property Central Place, Canva and University of NSW.Moriarty Foundation was established in 2011 as a solution to closing social disparity. Each week Moriarty Foundation reaches 2,200+ Indigenous children in 18 remote and regional communities through its two interrelated programs, John Moriarty Football (soccer) for 2-18 year olds, and Indi Kindi early learning for birth to 5 year olds. I am currently a Non-Executive Director Australian Design Council and a member of the Indigenous Football Australia Council™. I was formerly a Commissioner for the Future of Sydney CBD (2021), Inaugural Chair of the Football Australia Women’s Football Council (2019-21), and Board member of Menzies School of Health Research Darwin (2019-21), National Gallery of Australia, Australian Major Events SA and the Australian Academy of Design. In recognition of my contribution to design and culture I have been inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame, the Australian Graphic Design Association Hall of Fame and named a Good Design Ambassador. I’ve also been awarded the St Peters Citizenship Award, the Advance Australia Award for Service to Industry and Commerce, the Winner of the Business Enterprise category in the 2015 Financial Review/Westpac Australian 100 Women of Influence Awards, a 2021 UNESCO Achievement Award, the 2021 Good Design Australian Design Prize, and the 2022 Design Institute of Australia President’s Award. I am the author of the memoir Listening to Country (Allen & Unwin 2010), shortlisted for both The Age 2010 Book of the Year, and the 2010 Australian Human Rights Commission Literary Award. I have also written eight picture books for children (Allen & Unwin 2012-18), variously listed for The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award (2012 & 2015), and the 2013 Australian Environment Award for Children’s Literature.