– Pauline Cook –

Pauline Cook is the CEO of Monaro Family Support Service, a child youth and family organisation in the Snowy Monaro region which has been punching above its weight for almost 50 years. This role built on Pauline’s prior experiences living and working in remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia, informing her fierce commitment to driving change through place-based ground-up responses.  

With skills spanning leadership, practice and research, Pauline is dedicated to mobilising more effective ways of integrating an understanding of community needs, and what works ‘on the ground’, with practice and policy frameworks.