Katrina Marson

Katrina Marson is passionate about pursuing a world where everyone has the right to sexual wellbeing and to live free from sexual violence.

Katrina graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 2012, and was named Student of the Year in 2013. Katrina then worked in the criminal justice system for a decade, predominantly in the area of sexual offences at the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions. She undertook a year's secondment at Legal Aid ACT as a criminal defence lawyer, and in 2016 was named ACT Young Lawyer of the Year.

In 2018, Katrina was appointed Director of the ACT's Child Abuse Royal Commission Criminal Justice Response Team - responsible for implementing the criminal justice recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Australian Capital Territory. Katrina then returned to work in the Sexual Offences Unit at the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions. She also tutors in Criminal Law and Evidence Law at ANU. Katrina sat on the Governance Committee of the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre between 2012 and 2017.

Katrina's first book, Legitimate Sexpectations: the power of sex-ed, was published in 2022 (Scribe). In December 2022 she gave a TEDx Talk in Brisbane about why consent education is not enough.

Katrina was the chair of the ACT Government Sexual Assault Prevention Working Group, and is now a member of the federal government's National Respectful Relationships Education Expert Working Group . She is taking a break from the criminal law to pursue her PhD in sex education, and is a regular contributor to The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.