with Glenn Woods, CEO of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, The Kimberley; Mike Winer, Advisor with Juunjuwarra Aboriginal Corporation, Starcke River, Cape York; and Dr Mary Graham, Kombumerri person from the Yugambeh Language Speaking Peoples in South East Queensland.
MARY GRAHAM
Dr Mary Graham is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Queensland. Mary grew up in South-East Queensland, and is a Kombu-merri person of the Yugambeh language speaking People, through her father’s heritage and a Wakka Wakka clan member through her mother’s heritage. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Mary has worked across several government agencies, community organisations and universities. Mary is a lecturer with the University of Queensland, teaching Aboriginal history, politics and comparative philosophy and she has written and published many prominent works, including publications in the Aboriginal Encyclopaedia, training modules for Cross Cultural Awareness and a host of academic papers. Mary is a Director of Future Dreaming Australia, an Indigenous and non-indigenous partnership organisation working to increase cross-cultural ecological knowledge in Australia (www.futuredreaming.org.au)
GLENN WOODS
Glenn Woods is the CEO of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, in the Western Kimberley Region of WA, an Indigenous led not for profit organisation, focused on protecting country via First Law approaches. He is is an educator and researcher who is committed to supporting an understanding and uptake of an Indigenist approach to professional practice. Glenn has worked across the education and training space for 25 years, with a focus on community-based learning and teaching practice that is connected to country. His Ph.D. research was focused on the decolonization of education and training via applied Indigenist theory and practice. Glenn identifies as a third-culture Australian, having a multicultural Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage. Glenn has lived and worked in a diverse range of locations and communities throughout Australia from remote Indigenous communities to large urban settings.
MIKE WINER
Michael is a mentor to Juunjuwarra Aboriginal Corporation, Starcke River, Cape York. Mike moved to Cape York after coordinating Forest Campaigns running The Canberra Branch of The Wilderness Society In the 80’s. He moved to Cairns and set up A branch to campaign on Cape York in 1992. The first Campaign was the Starcke campaign to acquire Starcke cattle lease from land speculators. This led to the formation of The Cape York Black/Green alliance that has resulted in the acquisition of over 6 million ha of pastoral leases on Cape York that have been converted to National Park and Aboriginal Freehold. Mike led the creation of the Jawun Aboriginal Corporate Partnership program in 1999, which brought corporations to work under the leadership of Indigenous leaders and organisations in Cape York. More recently Michael has spent 15 years researching land and sea management and environmental services at the Cape York Institute. Michael has quietly committed his life to supporting civil society, nature and those living in poverty by supporting great leaders who are working for their people and their country.
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