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N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM is an Aboriginal Australian rights activist. She is a Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon Wurrung elder, and serves as the Boon Wurrung representative in the City of Port Phillip.
For fellow panellist N’Arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM – who is a Boon Wurrung senior Elder and founder and chairperson of the Boon Wurrung Foundation – she looks to her great grandmother Louisa Briggs, in particular, for strength.
May 28, 2021 · N'arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM has previously been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her outstanding service to Indigenous culture and the Indigenous community and has recently received her PhD from RMIT.
Jun 10, 2019 · Victorian elder Carolyn Briggs has been a champion for Indigenous culture for over five decades. Indigenous elder Carolyn Briggs has been awarded an AM in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List ...
- Lydia Feng
N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM. Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. She has been involved in developing and supporting opportunities for Indigenous youth and Boon Wurrung culture for over 50 years.
Respected Boon Wurrung Elder, Carolyn Briggs, works passionately to recover and share cultural knowledge with present and future generations. Carolyn believes that an understanding of the enduring patterns of Aboriginal culture is essential for overcoming racism.
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N'arweet Carolyn Briggs. Biography. Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. A descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung, she is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Briggs, a Boon Wurrung woman born near Melbourne in the 1830’s.
