Anoushka is the Director of the Youth Law Program at WEstjustice. She joined there in 2020. Prior to that she worked at VLA, commencing in July 2007 with the Youth Legal Service and moving into the Youth Crime Team in 2012. She successfully gained specialist accreditation in Children's Law in 2012 and was awarded 2012 Children's Law Award along with VLA for the work she led in relation to the Tyler Cassidy Inquest. She was appointed Program Manager of Youth Crime in July 2014. Prior to VLA, Anoushka spent a year in Cambodia volunteering with a children's right advocacy NGO and before that, as a lawyer at the Top End Women's Legal Service in Darwin. She has a deep interest in the rights young people in conflict with the law and is committed to effective advocacy on their behalf. Anoushka is a member of the Law Institute’s Criminal Law Executive and Children’s Law Advisory Committee; the Victorian Multi Cultural Committees North West Regional Advisory Committee and was recently appointed as a Director of the Sentencing Advisory Council.