About the Speaker

Davina is a descendent of the Waggaman People of Country around Chillagoe and Mungana in Far North Queensland. With a background in Sociology, Davina is the Operations Manager of Warringu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation and currently Co-Chairs the Cairns Alliance of Social Services (CASS) holding the Ministerial Portfolio; member of the First Nations Focus Group for Queensland’s Law Reform Commission review of particular defences in the Queensland Criminal Code in relation to DFV . Warringu operates two DFV residential healing centres – Cairns and Mossman, Chairs the Remote Indigenous Women’s Shelter Network and is escalating the voice of First Nations women and children experiencing DFV and developing a strategic indigenous workforce response for the sector to national, state and regional audiences. Davina’s current focus is to strategically operationalize a holistic model of care for residential healing environments that centres the health and wellbeing of children experiencing DFSV, supporting mums to realise their hopes and dreams of being the best parent they can be and changing the deficit paradigm and trajectories for First Nations families and communities.