Margaret has a background in project management, business development, fundraising, health promotion and peer support, moving from engineering and managed services to the NFP sector after having children. A bereaved parent, Margaret recently developed and delivered Red Nose’s pilot Hospital to Home program with her team providing peer support and navigation to bereaved parents in the acute stages of grief following a stillbirth or neonatal death. She was also a consumer member of Safer Care Victoria’s Safer Baby Collaborative faculty.
As well as championing improvement in care and well-being for parents, Margaret is passionate about social justice and equality being a first generation Australian to parents who arrived in Australia as refugees without English as a language. She provides personal insight as a consumer and carer on a number of diversity and inclusion working groups in healthcare and is a Board Director for Transcend Australia.
Margaret joined Red Nose from Sands Australia in November 2020. She is responsible for ensuring our education and prevention programs continue to deliver on Red Noses’ mission to save little lives and ensure the wider community understands the devastating impact felt by families whose baby or child has died.