Agents of Change: Insights from First Nations Social Enterprise Leaders
- Date:21 May 2025
- Time:
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Location: online
Join The Land Back Foundation in an interactive online webinar to explore how social enterprises can work as agents of change to advocate and uplift Indigenous businesses.
About this webinar
Join the The Land Back Foundation to explore key questions for social enterprise leaders, including:
- Does our current understanding of the systems and structures we operate in every day have some ‘blind-spots’?
- How do ‘standard’ ways of seeing and doing impact Indigenous and non-Indigenous businesses in the social enterprise sector?
- How might we reveal historical and present-day systems to help us see more clearly where we can be of service.
In the second of two sessions to be convened by The Land Back Foundation, we invite you to engage in individual, organisational and collective reflection to deepen your understanding of worldviews, Country, and the need to address 'blind-spots' in our systems as part of social enterprise commitments to social, cultural and environmental wellbeing.
Tara Croker
Founder of Yaala Sparkling
Yaala Sparkling
Tara is a proud First Nations Wiradjuri woman, a trailblazing entrepreneur who merges her Indigenous heritage with the dynamic world of business. Her impressive career trajectory includes roles in high-profile global corporations such as Google, YouTube, and News Corp, where she honed her business acumen and marketing expertise. Driven by a deep-rooted passion for the land and community, Tara founded Yaala Sparkling, a multi-award winning beverage company that celebrates the rich flavours of native Australian plants. She promotes sustainable and healthy practices and strives to increase First Nations participation within the native food industry by sourcing ingredients from local wild harvesters and suppliers, and collaborating with Indigenous artists to tell the authentic story of the plants.
Laura Thomson
Co-Founder and CEO of Clothing The Gaps
Clothing The Gaps
Laura Thompson, a Gunditjmara woman, leads an Aboriginal-led social enterprise and B-Corp that unites Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through fashion and advocacy. Under her leadership, Clothing The Gaps has become a significant force in Australian fashion and social justice. Laura is renowned for her advocacy in Indigenous rights, using the power of fashion to drive impactful campaigns like #FreeTheFlag, which aimed to reclaim the Aboriginal flag from copyright restrictions, and the referendum for a First Nations Voice to Parliament.
Birdy Bird
Co-Founder and CEO of The Land Back Foundation
The Land Back Foundation
Birdy is an entrepreneur and architect with a background in community arts, social enterprise and Indigenous community development. Their experience as a fifth-generation colonial-settler descendent whose family’s intergenerational wealth started on a dairy farm on the Mid North Coast of NSW inspired them to start a movement to fundraise via voluntary reparations more than $200 million in the next two generations. They say: “The story I tell myself is, that my family has gained wealth, health, education and opportunity because of our ability to own land, at the expense of First Nations people. I am giving land back."
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