Katrina is a researcher and educator with extensive experience working with remote Indigenous communities across Cape York and Far North Qld. She is passionate about working together with young people, families, communities and educators, to create culturally responsive education systems, which promote and support social and emotional wellbeing, resilience and positive life outcomes. Her roles have included primary school teacher, transition support advisory teacher (Cape York), RATEP teacher coordinator (Yarrabah) as well as various research and evaluation work. She is a trained Family Wellbeing facilitator has facilitated early intervention suicide prevention workshops and has co-developed mental health resources for remote Indigenous schools. Through her work with Transition Support Services (TSS) Katrina co-founded and was an associate investigator on a five year NHMRC study (CQU and TSS) examining psychosocial resilience and wellbeing of Indigenous students attending boarding schools. Her PhD research explored the post-schooling transitions of remote Cape York Indigenous boarding school graduates.