Teela Reid is the Co-founder of Blackfulla bookclub, an instagram platform that honours First Nation’s Ancestors as the original Storytellers.
She is a Rebellious Lawyer, storyteller, essayists and proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman. She is currently a Sydney-based Senior Solicitor in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and in 2022 was appointed the inaugural First Nations Lawyer in residence at The University of Sydney Law School.
Teela is also a key advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart and recently been appointed to the Federal Governments Referendum Engagement Group to provide strategic input for a Referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament.
She completed her Postgraduate Juris Doctor/Law from the University of New South Wales. She has a double Bachelor degree in BA.Secondary Teaching/BA.Health and Physical Education from the University of Newcastle, where she studied abroad in Canada. Teela is a graduate of the Global Emerging Leaders Program at The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Boston USA.
In 2022, Teela was awarded the Australian Law Awards Indigenous Leader of the Year.
She was raised in Gilgandra western NSW. Foremost, she is a very proud Aunty to Lala & Zavi, who consistently inspire her to show up in the world as a better person. She was raised in a matriarchal kinship system.
Teela is passionate about dismantling systemic racism in society and hopes Australia becomes a Republic.
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