I’m passionate about creating spaces, both physical and social, where students feel empowered to collaborate, share ideas, and find purpose beyond their coursework. Having personally experienced how strong networks can inspire confidence and open doors, I want to extend that sense of belonging and opportunity across all SONA chapters. My focus would be on fostering inclusive, community-driven initiatives that bridge academia, practice, and student wellbeing. By proactively building relationships with universities, industry partners, and local communities, I aim to help SONA become not just a representative body, but a catalyst for meaningful engagement and growth within architectural education.

As an architecture student with a background in graphic communication, curation, and storytelling, I bring a strong understanding of visual narrative and publication design. I see de-PICT 2025 as more than a zine; it should be a powerful platform of voices, capturing the diverse experiences, experiments, and reflections of students across Australia. My vision is to make it interactive, visually bold, and thematically unifying, featuring student projects, opinion pieces, and sketches that explore the evolving role of architecture in culture and community. By merging design rigour with authenticity, I hope to make de-PICT a valuable space that documents the student journey while provoking thought about the future of our built environment.

I believe engagement begins with connection and purpose. To grow the SONA community, I would focus on creating consistent, inclusive, and value-driven opportunities for students to participate, both online and in person. This could include community-driven events, collaborative design challenges, and mentorship circles linking students with recent graduates and experienced practitioners. I’d also strengthen inter-chapter collaboration by spotlighting local initiatives nationally through digital platforms, allowing students to see themselves as part of a larger collective. My approach would centre on listening and co-creating; inviting members to actively shape the events and discussions they want to see. By amplifying student voices and celebrating shared achievements, I aim to make SONA a space where engagement feels natural, empowering, and continuous throughout the architectural journey.

A key interest in my own works is equity in housing, sustainability and the connection of indigenous knowledge to the design process. I seek to work with the institute to create increased access to resources that are relevant to the student body. In advocating for this, I seek to engage the student body to like minded and pioneering architects, focussing on these various issues as well as others of concern to SONA members. In my representative role I have previously reached out to architects relevant to my concerns for guidance, a pipeline that I wish to extend to the students body to create with architects and practices that align with their values. In the role of VP I wish to give students the platform for activism, understanding it is important in the progression of the field we will inherit, putting students at the forefront of its evolution.

Within my own research from students, there was a perceived disconnect between the student body and practicing architects. Through engagement of the institute I developed two separate frameworks to diversify existing platforms for students to contribute to wider industry discourse. In minimizing the perceived distance between the different arms of practice, I worked with the institute in review of the Institute’s Community Page as well as creating a framework for an extension of the Institutes podcast to include the student voice and interest. Understanding the diversity of the student body, working with state representatives, we further increased the catchment of Superstudio, a key event in the connection of students to practice. Achieving these solutions involved extensive consultation with the student body as well as the Australian Institute of Architects to develop mutually beneficial outcomes, developing relationships in important groups that will help expedite the actioning of future advocacy.