I am a geo-anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores Indigenous knowledge systems, urban water ecologies, and environmental repair. My practice is grounded in collaborations with Traditional Owners, particularly on Boonwurrung Country (southeast Melbourne), and Duduroa Country (Upper Murray Region), where we works to restore relationships with erased or altered water places through walking, ceremony, and creative practice.
 

I hold a PhD in Architecture from Monash University, where I developed a relational methodology to engage with the memory of drained and buried waterways.

I am currently a Research Fellow on the ARC Linkage Project Repairing Memory and Place, working with Boonwurrung Elder Dr Carolyn Briggs AM at the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab at Monash University. I also joined La Trobe as a Research Fellow at the Climate Change Adaptation Lab in the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) funded project River Communities.

Alongside an amazing team of collaborators we developed Hidden Rippon Lea—an augmented reality and soundscape experience revealing submerged water stories beneath colonial heritage landscapes. This work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice and Seoul Architecture Biennales. In 2024, I received a State Library Victoria Creative Futures Fellowship for Weegabeel Warreeny Maar: Reclaiming Water Country, tracing disappearing coastal ecologies and sea-level rise through Indigenous archival and embodied knowledge.

Through writing, walking, design, and public engagement, I advocate for decolonial water governance, Indigenous sovereignty, and more relational approaches to climate futures.