Over 15 years experience working with Aboriginal languages in the Northern Territory including research, facilitating community-based and school-based language programs, delivering training for Indigenous language workers, documenting endangered languages and working as an accredited Kriol-English interpreter.
Completed a PhD with the Australian National University in 2015 followed by postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, carrying out a project surveying dialects of Kriol.