Trained in Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Sarah has been a director in her own Architecture and Interior Design practice since 1993.  Her main area of expertise is in Secure Facility Architecture, undertaking over 100 projects in secure facilities in South Australia. In 2010 she undertook a worldwide tour of Women’s Secure Facilities in her role as the Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholar, focusing on residential parenting programs. She is currently working as a consultant to the South Australian Department for Correctional Services as a design advisor on their major redevelopment programs at the Yatala Labour Prison and Adelaide Women’s Prison. She is a member of the Stronger Foundations and Clear Pathways Women’s Ministerial Work Group.

Sarah is a founding director of the UTurn Foundation, a not-for-profit social initiative focusing on improving outcomes for incarcerated women on their release from prison, by creating employment pathways into the construction industry. She was part of the team that developed the very successful UTurn Construction Pathways Program at the Adelaide Women’s Prison, a unique program that gave incarcerated women work experience and training on a live construction site within the prison. 

 

Sarah is passionate about improving conditions for incarcerated women, and focussing on their specific needs to gain better outcomes.