Josie represented West Coast Fever in the ANZ Championships as an elite netball player from 2008 to 2016, before joining Severn Stars and Team Bath in the UK Netball Super League. Josie formerly held netball scholarships at the AIS and WAIS and represented Australia at the U/21 level.

Josie is currently a board member of the Waalitj Foundation, Western Australian Institute of Sport and Indigenous Basketball Australia and as a proud Torres Strait Islands woman who grew up in Derby, West-Kimberley Josie is passionate about providing talented athletes across Western Australia with pathways and support to excel at the highest levels of the sport. Josie is the Executive Leader of Education Programs at Wirrpanda Foundation, where she leads the implementation of programs that empower and enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands youth to lead positive and healthy lifestyles.

I feel it's a great opportunity to be an AIS Share a Yarn mentor as I've been working with our First Nations People for a long time building positive self-confidence and an awareness of shame and how we can overcome barriers to achieve our success. We always knew that at some stage we would be shifting our focus to work intensely with our allies. A lot of people have great intention but still lack the awareness and understanding of how to create culturally safe and appropriate spaces to ensure we are being inclusive to everyone. If I have a captive audience that are willing to learn how to work with our First Nations People I will do as much as I can to inform them. It's time we open up this conversation and make it everyone's business, we (as First Nations People) cannot do it all on our own.’’