The Big Mob, STEM it up Project

Grady is a Minang Noongar man born in Perth. He is an IT Consultant at Winyama with a drone specialisation. Prior to joining Winyama, Grady completed an Advanced Diploma in Engineering and Electrical Design and worked for 10 years as an Instrument and Electrical Designer with resource companies.  In his spare time Grady is a regular attendee of the public speaking group Toastmasters and is an avid...

Noel is a Nyiyaparli/Nyamal man, born in Port Hedland and grew up in Marble Bar. He joined the Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation (KNAC) in April 2023 as the Ranger Program Project Officer, a newly created operational role that works alongside rangers on country and helps with project coordination.  Prior to his work with KNAC, Noel has worked in a variety of fields, including Heritage Manag...

Andrew is the Managing Director of Winyama. Andrew’s role is to manage and guide Winyama, create opportunities for the team to grow into their roles and most importantly to generate work for the organisation to be sustainable. Andrew is from the Ngarluma traditional owner group and grew up between Perth, Sydney, and the Pilbara.  Andrew has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney majoring...

Carol-Anne Tucker is a Nyiyaparli/Banjima woman from the East Pilbara area of Western Australia. She grew up in the coastal Pilbara town of Onslow before deciding to move to Tom Price to be closer to Country. She was very close to her Gubarli (Father’s mother) who taught her a lot about Country and her responsibilities to Country and family.  Carol-Anne says being a young mum was a big challenge,...

Marlee is a Bardi Jawi women and the Regional Ecologist for the Kimberley Land Council based out of Broome.  She works closely with KLC Ranger teams to monitor culturally and scientifically significant species, broker science partnerships, build ranger capacity and inform land management.   Before her time with the KLC, Marlee worked with CSIRO with a research focus on Indigenous coastal developme...

Corey Tutt OAM is a Kamilaroi man from Nowra, NSW, and a STEM champion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As a young person, he developed a love of STEM subjects but found little encouragement for Aboriginal people to pursue careers in STEM. In 2018, Corey founded DeadlyScience, a not-for-profit organisation that provides STEM resources to remote schools in Australia and connects yo...

Bonny Rawson is a Ballardong Noongar woman. She grew up in Boorloo (Perth) and is now living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). She is currently working as a Senior Product Technologist at Coles. She has a Bachelor of Science (Food Science & Technology) from Curtin University. She has worked in various roles at Coles for 9 years. Whist at university she joined CareerTrackers, a program that pro...

Coen is a trawlwoolway pakana related to northeast lutruwita. Coen is a researcher and teacher with broad interests in Indigenous sciences, ecophysiology, and conservation biology. Coen has special interest and experience in understanding the effects of climate change on the physiology, behaviour, and ecology of organisms. Coen is currently undertaking his PhD investigating the role of changing te...

Talia Sarra is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman with Birri Gubba and Gooreng Gooreng heritage and connections to the Mauar, Stephen and Murray Islands.  Talia was the Secondary Student STEM Highly Commended Finalist for the CSIRO Indigenous STEM Awards 2017 and the Young Indigenous Leader Award from QATSIF.   Talia has a passion for environmental science and the creative arts. Her un...

Josh has over 12 years’ experience as a Civil Engineer specialising in the delivery of large and complex projects, subdivisions, and main roads infrastructure. Josh has delivered over $300M+ civil works in South East Queensland, Western Queensland and Northern New South Wales.    Josh is appointed to the National Engineers Register (NER) and is a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPE...

Mel Perkins, a proud Quandamooka woman with connections to the Wakka Wakka Nation, who is currently the Acting Executive Director of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS), in the Office of the Director- General, in Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads.  Her experience extends with over 20 years working in the public sector environment, across a variety of transport and data focused roles...

Associate Professor Kris. Rallah-Baker is a proud Yuggera/Warangu man on his mother’s side and Wiradjuri on his father’s side. He is Australia’s first Indigenous ophthalmologist, founding member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, former President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, Director on the Federal Board of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, technical advisor to...

In this first episode, we yarn with Susan Beetson.  I'm Susan Beetson, Ngemba Computer Science researcher and educator of interactive technologies at UQ. I grew up on my Country in very remote Australia.  I research alongside Ngemba, Ballardong and Whadjuk communities to digitally translate Knowledges into Culture Hubs—e-commerce entrepreneurial platforms. Culture hubs are culturally co-desig...