We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Lulkbudia Ali Mclean Gerrard is a proud Miriwoong Gajerrong person from Kununurra in the East Kimberley. They are an artist, DJ, youth worker and event producer organising around Queer Blak joy in regional, remote and metro WA.
Lulk is passionate about building Black power through community connection and representation. They run a camp for LGBTQIA+SB Mob with Elisha Jacobs Smith on Whadjuk Noongar boodja, creating healing experiences through community, country and culture. Lulk also delivers Deadly Decks with Sarah and Kev (aka the Lubly Dae Crew), a DJ program rooted in community skill sharing and designed to decolonise the creative scene in WA by up skilling and promoting First Nations talent from the decks to the dance floor.
Lulkbudia is the Arts & Culture Fellowship Recipient of 2024, working with Wear it Purple to coordinate the Queer Futures and Future Me Fund and provide grants to LGTBQIA+SB young people through out so-called Australia.
Rona is a proud Kaytetye woman from Central Australia who works with high impact organisations to create systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and solutions.
Rona is the founder of Common Ground and brings 7 years
of professional experience working across First Nations organisations and not for profits. Rona was previously the Director of First Nations at YLab, a social enterprise that puts young people with diverse lived experiences at the centre of designing and developing innovative and impactful solutions
to complex social issues. Over her career, Rona has worked in policy at the Central Land Council, the Research Unit for Indigenous Languages at the University of Melbourne, Reconciliation Victoria, and the Foundation for Young Australians.In 2020, Rona was a finalist for the Victorian Young Achiever awards, was awarded a Westpac Social Change Fellowship. In 2019 Rona won a Diana Award and was named a 'Woman of the Future' by Women's Weekly.Through her work with First Nations communities across Australia, Rona aims to create future systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and cultures.Rona currently resides in Mpartnwe on Arrernte Country.
We are a First Nations not-for-profit that exists to centre First Nations people, Country and truth-telling. We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
.avif)
