Our Founder

I’m so happy that you have made your way to my website. I feel truly privileged to do the work that I do.

As you may have ascertained from this website, I have a “mixed bag” type of career that is a combination of disability/human oriented work and also conservation film making. Though seemingly disjointed, it all somehow works together because at the root of both of these passions of mine is a desire to serve.

I come from a professional background in both wildlife management/environmental roles and social programs.

I spent many years working in local government waste management roles, animal hospital roles, and as a fauna spotter where I was tasked to find and relocate wildlife from sites of deforestation and land clearing. Throughout this period I also spent thirteen years as a disability support worker which was at times a temporary job in between wildlife assignments and at other times my main occupation. I found that though this career was not something I had ever intended for myself, I found it deeply fulfilling.

In 2018 I also launched an independent documentary film production company, Conservation Heart Films, out of a calling to raise awareness to some of the conservation and environmental issues that really stirred me up. Our first feature length release, Rubber Jellyfish, busted a long perpetuated myth that latex balloons are biodegradable when in actual fact they are a major conservation threat to marine turtles and many other species. I came to this film concept after doing research as part of my master’s degree into the impact of helium balloons on green and loggerhead turtles. I learned that despite the fact that wildlife hospitals were regularly removing impacted balloons from the guts of deceased marine turtles that had washed ashore, in most parts of Australia, the release of helium balloons was completely legal because of the balloon industry ‘greenwashing’ where these products had been marketed as biodegradable. I was disgusted and had to take action.

Rubber Jellyfish has made a significant global impact, resulting in environmental legislation changes in several countries, including Australia which now has much more stringent legislations (varying state by state) around balloon litter.

Since 2021 I have been working primarily in the NDIS space as a support coordinator and psychosocial recovery coach and launched Conservation Hearts Support Coordination in 2023 as a sister company to Conservation Heart Films.

It is my aim and mission that the work I do to improve the lives of people with disabilities can also then help support and fund the work I do in conservation film making. To achieve this, I have structured my business in such a way that a portion of the proceeds that I earn through NDIS work are funnelled into the documentary arm of the business.

I love what I do and am so thrilled with this unique and fulfilling career I have invented for myself. I’m so grateful to everyone who has worked alongside me through the journey… and if you are reading this page, you are most likely one of those people – thank you!