Katrina holds a joint appointment between Wanslea Family Services as Manager of Research and Evaluation, and the School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Speech Pathology at Curtin University.

Katrina is also the Outcome Measurement Course Designer and Facilitator at the Centre for Social Impact at UWA, helping to build capacity and knowledge of outcome measurement in the community services arts sector.

Katrina has been a Board member of Tuart Place since 2016, a participant led organisation for care leavers, former Child Migrants, and Forgotten Australians.

A social worker by background Katrina has worked as practitioner, researcher, and educator across the government, non-profit, and university sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work (Hons), Doctor of Philosophy (UWA), and in 2018 graduated with a Masters of Business Administration with Distinction from UWA.

Katrina has a particular interest in the power of knowledge, research and education to create change for individuals and communities.