Moya commenced her museum career at the National Wool Museum in Geelong, assisting with exhibition development in the months prior to the museum's opening in 1988. After a year as assistant curator at what was then the Performing Arts Museum in Melbourne, Moya was appointed as the curator/manager of the Museum of Lillydale (now the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum) for nearly six years. It was here that she fostered her love of working at the coal face with communities and developing vibrant exhibition programs. It also gave her an enduring soft spot for Dame Nellie Melba! It was also during this time that Moya's unexpected love affair with glory boxes, the untold histories of many women's experiences and the potential of oral testimony evolved. This eventually resulted in her PhD exploring a cultural history of glory boxes completed in 2009.
Moya has now been the Senior Curator of Migration in the History and Technology Department at Museum Victoria since 1995. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions at the Immigration Museum and Melbourne Museum, including most recently Identity: yours mine, ours, and continues to develop, document and make accessible online the museum's ever growing migration collection. She has delivered numerous conference papers in Australia, the UK, Sweden and Taiwan on representing migration histories in museums.
During her career, Moya has been a committee member, vice president and president of Museums Australia Victoria, a member of the Museums Australia Victoria Regional Exhibitions Touring Initiative committee, Treasurer of the Museums Australia Historians National Network, and most recently a member of the organising committee for the 2011 Oral History Association Victoria conference.
Moya is particularly interested in the role of memory and material culture in interpreting history, gender perspectives in history and the challenges in representing diverse migration narratives in museum collections and exhibitions.
PhD (conferred 2009). Glory Boxes: Femininity, Domestic Consumption and Material Culture in Australia, 1930-1960. The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne.