Channel the anger, frustration & hope into advocacy

Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman who is using
her legal skills to fight back against the systematic oppression
of First Nations people in Australia.


She became a lawyer, after first working as a teacher, because
she felt a pressing sense of obligation to her people.


In 2010, Reid was selected as Australia’s Indigenous Female Youth
Delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues, where she was elected by the delegates to become the
secretariat of the World Indigenous Youth Caucus.


When asked what she thinks about her own leadership, Teela tells
Kate Mills that the idea of it sits a little bit uncomfortably
with her. As she explains, in the Aboriginal community, leaders
are elders, so she wouldn’t consider herself one.


Instead, she’s just trying to channel her anger, frustration, and
glimmers of hope into advocacy and conversations that will make a
difference for First Nations people.


“I’m not settling for the status quo; I’m trying to create a
world that is fairer and a world that is prepared to dismantle
racism within its institutions.”


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