Suzie May has a varied career in government law, justice and prison reform, welfare, mental health and health consumer advocacy. She has been a state and national consumer advocate in musculoskeletal disease for 15 years and is a consumer advisor to the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network. Mrs May has been lecturing medical and allied health students on the lived experience of chronic disease at various WA universities for 13 years. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples and Community Justice at the University of Western Australia Law School.