A graduate of Boston University’s Global Leadership Institute’s Recovery Class of 2013, Kerry is able to draw on both her lived experience as a family member of someone experiencing extreme and enduring distress, together with a professional career working as a project management consultant, strategic advisor for a federal government agency, and as a Director within the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). She was the carer representative on the Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) board for four years and is currently President of WAAMH. She is also the WA director for Emerging Minds, a national mental health organisation focusing on improving mental health outcomes for children, parents and families and a Board Member of Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA). She is a Commissioner on the National Mental Health Commission.