Host Organisation
Indigenous Desert Alliance
Description
Indigenous Desert Alliance (IDA) is a not-for-profit member-based organisation which supports Indigenous Land Management Organisations and Ranger Teams based and working across the Australian Deserts. IDA’s Membership currently stands at 29 Members encompassing nearly 70 ranger teams.
Speakers
Samantha Murray - Chief Executive Officer
Samantha Murray is a proud Yilka/Wongutha/Noongar woman. She is a Traditional owner of Yilka Country – which is flat spinifex country with red sand. It is situated in the Great Victorian Desert in Western Australia and has connections to the broader Goldfields and Central Desert area. Cosmo Newberry remote aboriginal community, where Sam was raised, is based on Yilka country.
For the past five years, she has played a vital role at the IDA, supporting people and managing programs. As the IDA's first Indigenous CEO from the desert, Sam approaches the role with passion and focus, dedicated to ensuring that Indigenous rangers are enabled to collaboratively manage the Australian desert and are empowered to realise their aspirations for community, culture, and Country.
Jade Bromilow - People and Culture Officer
Jade is a Yilka/Ngaanyatjarra/Narrunga woman with connections to the broader Central Desert Area.
For the past four years, she has worked with commitment and dedication to support her Desert people care for country and elevate the voices of Desert Women, especially young women.
Recently Jade has been developing as an emerging leader in the focus area of Desert Climate Resilience and raising the impacts of Climate Change on Desert Country.
She hopes that by speaking about it and elevating the stories from the communities, this will mean it will be supported more on a national and international level.