“Itwas soon after I joined Diabetes Australia in Queensland, working as an accredited exercise physiologist, that I saw my opportunity to become a credentialled diabetes educator.
“Prior to that, I’d been with the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health working at Aboriginal medical centres in southeast Queensland, which gave me an insight into the prevalence of diabetes in Indigenous communities.
“And around the same time, a few of my own family members were also being diagnosed with type 2
