Our team
An Indigenous-led and -owned business, all of our work is designed and delivered by an experienced and expert panel of academics and Industry practitioners.
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Dr Mark McMillan
Citizen of the Wiradjuri Nation
Managing Director
About
Dr Mark McMillan is a Wiradjuri man from Trangie, NSW. In 2013, he was awarded the National NAIDOC Scholar of the Year Award. His research interests are in the areas of human rights and in particular, the expression and fulfilment of those rights for Indigenous Australians.
He is currently a Director of Yalabara Solutions, a subsidiary of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC), and a current board member of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and the Trangie local Aboriginal land Council.
Mark worked for the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on lands of the Eora Nation for 10 years, in the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, which is now the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research.
In 2013, Mark was awarded the National NAIDOC Scholar of the Year Award. His research interests are in the areas of human rights and in particular, the expression and fulfilment of those rights for Indigenous Australians.
Qualifications
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LL.B, GDLP, LL.M, SJD
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Graduate Dip. Legal Practice (Australian National University)
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Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science (University of Arizona)
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Certificate II in Indigenous Leadership (Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre)
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Graduate Cert. in Wiradjuri Heritage, Language & Culture (Charles Sturt University)
Dr Jane Havelka
Citizen of the Wiradjuri Nation
Director
About
Dr Jane Havelka is a Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) from the Narromine, Dubbo region. Jane has worked in Dubbo, Forbes and Wagga Wagga in the health sector for over thirty years and provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid Training. Jane has served as a director for the last three years with Indigenous Allied Health Australia, and previously as a Community Advisory Board Member of The University of Notre Dame’s Rural WPL School of Medicine in Wagga Wagga.
Jane has held various positions within Charles Sturt University over the past twenty-two years including Program Director, Course Coordinator, Workplace Clinical Coordinator and Lecturer for the Bachelor of Health Science (Mental Health) Djirruwang Program in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Indigenous Health. The Djirruwang Program is the first course in Australia to incorporate the National Practice Standards for Mental Health Workforce and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid in its curriculum.
As an Aboriginal woman, Jane has had a lifetime of past and recent relevant industry experience, skills and knowledges having worked in the areas of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heath Care, Allied Health, Community Services, Counselling, Education support, Health Services, Mental Health and Nursing.
Ed Hubber
Design Lead
About
Ed Hubber is a lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University, and lead designer behind Bundyi Girri Consulting. His design practice focuses on problematising Western design practices, building community through making, and design-led sensemaking.
Qualifications
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Bachelor of Communication Design. (RMIT)
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Honours research thesis Towards an Uncomfortable Practise, which investigated ways of de-centring normative approaches in design.
Dayna Hayman
Operations Designer
About
Dayna Hayman is a talented, creative, and strategic designer. Formally trained with eight years of professional experience, Dayna has led and delivered projects using human centred design principles and design thinking methodologies. She designs projects to embrace the ambiguity in the creative process. Working through complexity with collaborative methods, Dayna finds insights to converge on a clear path forward. Academically published across multiple Scientific Visualisation projects including; The Mamma and Enabling Resilient Investment frameworks. Dayna has also delivered Our Languages Matter! Aboriginal Place naming Workshops, Aboriginal Youth Justice Strategies and product and business design for Uncle Charlie's Tastes of Country.
Qualifications
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Bachelor of Communication Design (RMIT, 2014)
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Scientific Illustration Intensive (Flinders, 2023)
Publications & Awards
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QRA Resilience Checklist (2021)
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MAMMA Framework (2023)
Fiona Simpson
Business Development Manager
Tristan Danino
Experience and Service Designer
