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Professor Anne Poelina is the Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies and a Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame. She is a Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Professor Poelina is the Chair of the Mar tuwarra Fitzroy River Council and is an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, and a filmmaker.

Professor Poelina holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Indigenous Wellbeing), Doctor of Philosophy (First Law), Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education and a Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy).

She is Signatory to the Redstone Statement 2010 and helped draft the first 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 held in Geneva, 2017. Professor Poelina believes that we can dream together as human beings, and start to live in harmony and peace with each other and with our non-human families.