The IWC Committee

Committee Member

Tapu is a proud woman of Samoan Pasifika background living in Brisbane. After many years in various leadership roles, Tapu now leads a Pasifika-driven mental health recovery service called Black butterfly Group in Southeast Queensland. This service is committed to improving the health and well-being of people and their communities. Black butterfly Group is anchored in a vision to see ‘courageous communities flourishing through the power of connection’; Tapu is passionate about finding new ways to raise the optimism levels of communities. With a community development and counselling background, Tapu seeks to encourage people to have hopeful mindsets and cultivate resiliencies for all who face unprecedented mental, emotional, and spiritual battles.