Senior Associate

Tess is a Senior Associate in the monitoring and reporting team. She is focused on projects relating to health and mental health in prisons including, food and nutrition, and deaths in custody. Tess holds an MPA from Harvard and degrees in Law and Arts (history and politics) from the Australian National University. Prior to working at CANY, Tess worked in legal and policy roles in the Northern Territory of Australia, where she was particularly focused on the rights of children in the justice system, the intersection between health and justice, and addressing the over-representation of First Nations people in the justice system. Tess also undertakes justice and health related research with the Harvard FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights and with the Justice Health Unit at Curtain University in Western Australia.