Professor Anne Poelina, Chair of Indigenous Studies and Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, is a Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Australia. Chair, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, Anne is an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, and film maker. A respected academic researcher, she holds, Doctor of Philosophy (Indigenous Wellbeing), Doctor of Philosophy (First Law), Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy). Signatory to the Redstone Statement 2010 she helped draft at the 1st International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy. A Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership, she was awarded a Laureate from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva,2017). She holds membership to national and global Think Tanks. Poelina is a Visiting Fellow with the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia Water Justice Hub; Visiting Fellow Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University; and Visiting Fellow, The Institute of Post-Colonial Studies (Melbourne).
Professor Anne Poelina, Chair of Indigenous Studies and Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, is a Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Australia. Chair, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, Anne is an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, and film maker. A respected academic researcher, she holds, Doctor of Philosophy (Indigenous Wellbeing), Doctor of Philosophy (First Law), Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy). Signatory to the Redstone Statement 2010 she helped draft at the 1st International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy. A Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership, she was awarded a Laureate from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva,2017). She holds membership to national and global Think Tanks. Poelina is a Visiting Fellow with the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia Water Justice Hub; Visiting Fellow Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University; and Visiting Fellow, The Institute of Post-Colonial Studies (Melbourne).