Raised in the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia, she oozes style and creativity. With an early interest in fashion, design and art, she left school to work for top advertising agency Mojo. Soon after marrying and starting a much desired family, she was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's in her twenties and dedicated her future to raising two equally artistic daughters and advocating her health experiences for people living with her condition, positively impacting her community far and wide.
Her reach has been instrumental as a participant in a pioneering Parkinson's drug trial under the leadership of principal neurologist Dr Victor Fung. This groundbreaking and newly approved device recently named VYALEV was funded through pharmaceutical company ABBVIE, also involved in other major groundbreaking Parkinson’s genetic scientific research trials through Neura Australia with significant funding through the Michael J Fox organisation.’ It has over the past three years been the answer to her regaining her mobility and giving her life back.
With featured interviews on major television news channels she has now, along with a handful of selected inclusivity models, walked the esteemed Australian Fashion week for multi-disciplinary designer Jordan Gogos in his latest collection and further interviewing for and gracing both Vogue and Harpers Bazaar editorials.
Ever keen to give back, her volunteering efforts have been awe inspiring including three years at the Sydney Writers' Festival, perfectly suited to this bookwork with her instagram page Books to Beaches spanning a plethora of publications, in particular shining a deserved light on home grown Australian authors.
There are not enough adjectives to adequately praise and present this super woman but to say she is....a woman, a mother, an artist, a friend, an inspiration and a survivor.
