Lucy is a social innovator. She researches social challenges, asks lots of questions and develops, tests and refines solutions. Lucy specialises in collaborative design with communities and is passionate about creating conditions for equity in systems, services and communities. In 2023 Lucy is available for freelance work.

Her practice in this area includes: co-design, co-production, complex project management & contracting, stakeholder and partnership development and management, systems thinker, capability building and coaching.

Lucy is a white Australian woman with European heritage who is on a journey toward cultural competency and allyship to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and First Nations people. She has been taught and trusted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander colleagues, clients, partners and friends to support social innovation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts. 

Lucy has worked for The Australian Centre for Social Innovation for the past seven years, mostly on service and policy co-design and consultation. Lucy has worked with state governments, not-for-profit services and philanthropists to help them partner better with minoritised communities and remove obstacles to community participation and leadership. 

Developing her cultural competency and understanding of systemic conditions has been key to Lucy’s ability to consult and collaborate with communities. For example working with young South Sudanese Australians who developed mental health initiatives in a COVID lockdown, and consulting culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQ+ and disability communities in Victoria to share what they want from government mental health policy.

Lucy is on a sabbatical year in 2023, returning to TACSI in 2024. Previously, Lucy worked for three years as the industrial designer at a lighting start up, Pixalux.

Lucy was born in Sydney and has lived in Singapore, Melbourne, Kiama and now lives on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide). She loves hiking, swimming at the beach and finding the best noodle soups, including ramen.