Rachel Stringfellow

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About Rachel Stringfellow

Grounded in a strong desire to share and elevate the voices of our communities on a global scale, Rachel brings a fresh and exciting energy to NIT. Rachel comes with a background teaching at QUT within First Nations knowledges units and brings a love for disseminating research, writing, and yarning. Her matrilineal connections are through her Nanna, Nida Lowe (family name: Wilson) who was a Stolen Generations (Gudanji nation) and wider family have and continue shaping her into the person she is today. Connection to family, her history, our history grounds Rachel, and continues to be an inner driving force in her life. This internal drive has seen her grow with guidance from family, friends, and through experience gained from a variety of industries spanning Education, Government, Non-for-Profit and Media. Integrity, transparency, and a desire to build upon her relationships are at the bedrock of who she is.

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Talk respect with children and reflect on your own actions to end cycle of violence, new campaign urges

The Stop it at the Start campaign, supported by First Nations Australians Scott Prince and Shelley Ware, aims to break down the barriers of communication, by encouraging conversations about respect be...

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow Jul 26, 2022
Indigenous award winner says Queensland resources industry is 'fair dinkum' on jobs

The Queensland Resources Council has announced Multhana Property Services founder Joseph Wallace as 2022's Indigenous advocacy award winner. The award celebrates leading Indigenous participation pract...

Indigenous self-determination 'critical' to nation's economic progress: Yu

First Nations leaders have "a huge sense of optimism" that Australia can break from the past, backed by a new blueprint for economic development.

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow Jun 29, 2022
Indigenous psychologists' call to redirect mental health funds to First Nations services

Indigenous psychologists have criticised a state of 'political limbo' they claim has led to the funneling of money into non-Indigenous organisations despite years of calls to redirect efforts to commu...

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow Jun 14, 2022
Role models not mud-slinging: young Indigenous entrepreneur's call for unity

Brisbane entrepreneur Jack Reis has called out lateral violence among Indigenous communities and urged unity after being recognised at this year's Supply Nation awards.

City-centric 'save them' mentality hampers Indigenous justice access

A city-centric mentality has led legal access in regional Australia to crisis point, a peak legal network warns, as it makes its case for a complete reset to address systemic issues which have led to...

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow May 31, 2022
Traditional Owners, conservationists ink Ngalurrtju deal to protect sprawling outback lands

More than 300,000 hectares in Central Australia will be protected in a partnership between the Traditional Owners of the Ngalurrtju Aboriginal Land Trust, Central Land Council and Australian Wildlife...

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow May 31, 2022
Darwin Elder Richard Fejo's life of advocacy honoured by Flinders University

Darwin Elder Uncle Richard Fejo's decades of leadership has been recognised with an honorary doctorate at Flinders University. The Larrakia man was in May awarded the title for his leadership in Indig...

Rachel Stringfellow Rachel Stringfellow May 23, 2022
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