Aboriginal advocate and researcher on First Nation policy, programs and initiatives. Wakka Wakka and South Sea Islander woman living on the ancestral lands of Meeanjin (Brisbane).

Experience

  • –present
    Director for consultancy business Awakening - Cultural Ways, Indigenous Knowledge
  • 2020–present
    Research fellow, Deakin University

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Sydney, Graduate Diploma of Indigenous Health Promotion (Social and Emotional Wellbeing)
  • 2016 
    University of Woollongong, Graduate Certificate of Indigenous Trauma Recovery Program
  • 2014 
    University of Queensland, Graduate Diploma in Public Health
  • 2005 
    University of Queensland, Bachelor of Applied Health Science (Indigenous Primary Health Care)

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Health Promotion Association
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Association

Contact Samantha for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision