Cheryl Webster is presently the Community Engagement Worker and Cultural Adviser in the Community Living Support Program for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, a mental health program with Anglicare, where she has been working for 37 years. Over the years, she has been involved in establishing a number of Multicultural for a with Government Departments and agencies and has worked with Government Departments (Local, State and Federal) and non-Government organisations at a State level in policy development, consultancy and advocacy; and within ANGLICARE has developed access and equity in service provision for communities of CALD backgrounds.

Cheryl has worked with many communities including African and other small and emerging communities, assisting them to build their capacity as they settle into Australia and advocating for, and with, them as they struggled to have their needs and issues heard. She has also been involved in building the capacity of mainstream organisations to assist new arrivals from these communities. She has spent a number of months each year since 2006 for 12 years working in Ethiopia and Southern Sudan (in a voluntary capacity) gaining greater insight into issues for, and ways of working with, many people from this part of the world.
She has qualifications in Social Work (Honours UNSW), a Master of Management in
Community Management (UTS), Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and a Graduate Diploma in Social Work Student Supervision (UNSW).