Trish has experienced life as a migrant living in a variety of countries, and worked for many not-for-profit and for profit organisations connected to multicultural communities, from festivals and events to fundraising and environmental activism, fair trade companies, and banking and finance. Raised in one of Australia’s most multicultural council areas, Dandenong in Victoria, Trish completed an undergraduate degree at UTAS, then a Law degree and a Master of Laws at Monash University. Trish worked for a variety of community legal centres as a generalist lawyer and volunteering for refugee legal in Victoria, before working for Jakarta Legal Aid in Indonesia and with refugee-led organisations across the Asia Pacific for five years. After returning to Tasmania post covid, she has worked in post-separation family mediation, as a family lawyer for the Women’s Legal Service Tasmania, specialising in multicultural community members impacted by family violence, and is currently the senior supervising lawyer at the Tasmanian Refugee Legal Service.