Anne Poelina is an Aboriginal Australian community leader, human rights advocate, filmmaker, and academic.
Early life and education edit
Poelina grew up in Broome.[citation needed] She is a Nyikina / Warrwa woman and a traditional custodian of the Martuwarra, in the lower Fitzroy River area in the state of Western Australia.
She has masters degrees in Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Education; and Arts (Indigenous social policy).[citation needed]
Career edit
She is co-author of and signatory to the Redstone Statement, prepared at the 1st International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy in 2010. In 2011, she served as the inaugural chair of the First Peoples Water Engagement Council, and was elected onto the Broome Shire Council. During her first term in office, she became deputy shire president.[1]
An adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Poelina has worked on issues of environmental and cultural protection in the Kimberley of Western Australia. She is managing director of the Indigenous not-for-profit organisation Madjulla, based in Broome.[2]
In 2019, Poelina co-authored a paper titled Why Universities need to declare an Ecological and Climate Emergency.[3]
Poelina is the current[when?] chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council.[4] She is an active Indigenous community leader, human and earth rights advocate, filmmaker, and academic researcher.[citation needed]
Recognition and awards edit
Poelina was a finalist in the Western Australia Rural Woman of the Year in 2010 and the 2011 Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership.[5]
In 2017, she was awarded with the Women’s Creativity in Rural Life Award from the Women’s World Summit Foundation based in Geneva.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Dr Anne Poelina". greataustralianstory.com.au. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Growing up in old Broome". www.abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ^ "Why universities need to declare an ecological and Climate Emergency". Times Higher Education. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council
- ^ "Poelina, Anne - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Rural advocate gets global recognition". PerthNow. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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