Deborah Mills has worked for many years in arts and cultural policy: as Senior Project Officer and then Director of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board, as a Director in local government managing a range of regional cultural facilities and services and as a freelancer working with local government and with small to medium not-for-profit arts organisations and on behalf of The Institute for Creative Health facilitating sector involvement in the development of a national arts and health policy framework. She is co-author with Dr Paul Brown of Art and Wellbeing: a guide and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at The University of Sydney.