Jennifer Joi Field began her career as a community development practioner 1980 to 1999. Jennifer established management committees, public forums, community markets, community organisations, employment agencies, crisis accommodation services and small tourism enterprises in the urban and then remote Australian communities, in which she worked. In early 1994 Jennifer settled in the Kimberley to open an Art Gallery, in response to the expressed needs of local Aboriginal women, based on a community agency model. Managing the art gallery Jennifer was faced with the complexities and tensions of managing a commercial enterprise that operated on the principles of community development. Frequently challenged by the competing hats she would have to wear she came to understand the concept and value of corporate social responsibility. Following Jennifer's initial cultural experiences in the Kimberley she relocated temporarily to Melbourne in late 1999, to undertake Post Graduate studies in International and Community Development, focusing her research on the issues of Culture and Development. This academic experience gave her an opportunity to place her previous grass roots work into an intellectual and professional perspective. Jennifer's research and writing was and still is focused on the relationship between culture and development. Cultural Mapping is the method that Jennifer now works with to develop tools and methods that enable communities to document, store, self manage and utilise their cultural knowledge and assets to create sustainable futures for their community.