Senior Advisor, Research and Advocacy, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT.

Emily is a social worker with extensive direct practice experience working with people with disability involved in the criminal justice system. 

She has experience in research, project management, and systemic and individual advocacy. Emily has previously worked in community organisations and government as a practitioner and people manager, and has worked with both women and men exiting prison, people with intellectual disability involved in the criminal justice system and in disability advocacy.

Emily’s previous work has included managing disability rights based projects, systemic advocacy on the rights of people with cognitive disability involved in the criminal justice system and providing disability rights based advice to government and community organisations.

Emily holds qualifications in both general and forensic social work, criminology and forensic disability.