Gemma White and Amplifying Voices, YWCA

Gemma is a Social Worker who has been working with people with lived experience to achieve their advocacy goals for over a decade. Gemma worked for 10 years doing community development work with older people experiencing homelessness in Victoria and for the past two years has been leading the Amplifying Voices program for YWCA in Darwin. Her goal is to ensure lived expertise is understood, valued and imbedded within and outside our sector, in all decision making spaces.