Kirsty has many years’ experience working in the ACT Community Sector with people experiencing homelessness, domestic and family violence, alcohol and other drug issues and incarceration. She has established and co-ordinated a number of programs in that time. As an adult student Kirsty has completed a degree with Honours in Sociology and a Masters in Alcohol and Drug Studies. Her work life passion is working towards righting social injustice. More important than any of this Kirsty is a proud mother of three daughters who have grown up in the ACT and lives in the deep south with her husband and various combinations of children and pets.