Founder Bio

Jayne is a Baramadagal woman of the Dharug-speaking peoples (now known as the Sydney Basin Area, Australia) through the Reid/Goldspink bloodline, with kinship connections to Wiradjuri Country. Jayne has European heritages including; Danish (Christiansen), Irish (Kelly, Clyde, Orr), Scottish (Stewart Clan) and English (Goode, Perfect).

Jayne's  formal education is in law and arts (political science and sociology). Jayne spent almost 20 years working in the courts and legal sector. Jayne possesses a strong sense of social justice, which saw her dedicate a decade of her legal career practicing as a lawyer in the family, care and civil law jurisdictions in both metropolitan and regional and remote communities.

Jayne is a strong advocate for reforms to Federal racial discrimination laws, State anti-discrimination laws, and the implementation of a positive duty on employers to provide staff with workplaces free of racism and discrimination.

Jayne enjoys the practices of weaving and bush-dying in the communities she belongs and has hosted many weaving circles to facilitate dialogue focused on decoloniality at home and overseas. Jayne works on public art collaborations and commissions with the intent to foreground narratives of First Nations Sovereignty. 

Jayne was the first Baramadagal person to act as Chair of the Parramatta First Nations Advisory Committee and Co-chair the Dharug Keeping Place Reference Group between 2022 - 2024, and was an inaugural participant in the Galang Residency offered by Powerhouse Museum Parramatta and the Cite Internationale Des Arts in 2023.

Jayne is an NMAS accredited mediator, works with the Treaty Council Worldwide and the Allodial Land Use Register (ALUR) and holds various other advisory roles.

Jayne can be contacted to provide consultation and to work on creative collaborations.