I tell stories about people and places because good places come from good stories. With over sixteen years of working across multiple civic and cultural placemaking projects, my passion is finding ways to involve people in using and reusing the touchable and untouchable assets of the places that matter to them in meaningful and relevant ways. My skills lie in helping places and projects put people first. I have specific expertise in strategy and policy development, public and stakeholder engagement, public affairs and government relations, event management, and corporate governance. My experience includes programming multi-day place-learning events, community engagement to create and produce city-wide cultural events, and policy development on high-street regeneration opportunities. I have collaborated with public, private, and non-profit organisations. I am a Board Member and Trustee of National Museums NI, a Board Director of the Academy of Urbanism, and a Trustee and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of the RUC GC Foundation, meaning I have significant experience in corporate governance. Further, I have extensive collaboration, negotiation, and communication skills from working with colleagues across multiple sectoral bodies and forums. I am a Fellow of the RSA and explored civic and cultural regeneration in the US and Colombia as a Churchill Fellow in 2017. I was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant in Belfast in 2024.