Emma Lee

Emma Lee is a senior trawlwulwuy woman from tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania. For the past two decades, Emma has worked in land management, caring for country as an archaeologist, policy maker and joint management expert. Her new research interests are concerned with expanding the canon of land rights into sea country and advocating for greater collaboration on benefit-sharing of resources.

In 2017, Emma has begun a new position of Research Fellow at the Centre of Marine Socioecology, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, to investigate barriers and opportunities for Indigenous peoples to enter into commercial fisheries.