Tina Lucas-Smith

Program Coach, Transform Lives Program
Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University

Tina Lucas-Smith is a Social Worker and Program Coach in the Transform Lives Program in the Transforming Corrections to Transform Live Centre, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University. Tina holds a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Counselling. She has lived experience of incarceration, childhood sexual abuse, mental health, and domestic and family violence. Tina is an advocate walking alongside families experiencing criminalisation, with particular interest in supporting criminalised women/mothers, education not incarceration, challenging and dismantling discriminatory practices for criminalised people, and valuing lived experience.