Alongside a background in environmental law and policy (domestic and international) and disaster management, Felicity has extensive experience across the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government. Her career commenced as a judge’s associate in the South Australian Supreme Court, during which time she worked overseas for war crimes evidence-gathering. In the Commonwealth government, her work spanned the environment, health and gender/human rights portfolios. In the Australian Parliament, she worked first as a liaison officer for two Parliamentary Secretaries for the Environment, before becoming a senior researcher for the Senate Environment Committee. Committed to democratic processes, Felicity also worked in the New Zealand Parliament as a clerk of committee for government administration/foreign affairs.

Felicity is a social-ecological-legal researcher focused on preventing environmental harm, advancing multispecies justice, supporting community-led governance, enabling human-wildlife coexistence and promoting ecosystem restoration. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, drawing on law, social sciences, philosophy and the humanities to integrate diverse perspectives and translate them into practical insights.

Felicity has a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) (environmental law prize) from the University of Adelaide; an environmental LLM (substantive theis, high distinction) from the Australian National University; and a Master's degree in Disaster Prevention and Recovery - Resilience and Sustainability (high distinction) from the University of Newcastle. Felicity is a graduate of the Foundation for Young Australians, a forum for ‘emerging leaders in their fields, to consider the complex issues facing Australia’. She was an Associate Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), McGill University and has certifications in environmental law/disaster management from the Université de Montréal (Chaire Jean Monnet), UNITAR (New York), GFDRR and the
World Bank.

Her research interests include: environmental law and policy; environmental restorative justice; multispecies justice; human-wildlife coexistence; civic ecology; Earth governance; democratic innovations; holistic disaster recovery; resilience and long-term planning; and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, governance and social-ecological integration.