Emma Lee Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting 2023

Emma Lee

Dr Emma Lee is a trawlwulwuy woman of tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania, Australia. She is a professor at the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice at Federation University. Emma’s work in Tasmania has assisted in constitutional reform, the first joint management plan of a protected area and, in 2022, establishing a market for cultural fisheries. In 2023 she became the first Indigenous Australian to be a recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Marine Conservation. Emma was also a finalist for 2022 Australian of the Year (Tasmania) for her body of work in Indigenous rights. In 2021, she became the first Indigenous Australian editor of a Best Practice Guideline for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In 2019, she accepted a Federal Government role on the National Co-Design Group, Indigenous Voice, for developing models and processes for Indigenous advice to parliament and government.