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Sandra Harben is a Whadjuk/Balardong Nyungar woman. She studied at UWA under a scholarship granted through the Public Service Commission Aboriginal Employment Career Strategy, graduating in 1994. In 1995 she undertook studies at the University of Illinois as a recipient of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Overseas Study Award. In 2003 she was awarded Murdoch University’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Scholarship.

Sandra was a lecturer and principal research consultant at Murdoch University’s Kulbardi Aboriginal Education Centre. but resigned to pursue her own consultancy business, Richmond Consultancy. She has conducted numerous Cross Cultural Awareness Training Workshops (CCWTW) throughout the South West and metropolitan areas. Sandra recently completed CCATW with Legal Aid WA, Department for Sport and Recreation and Keystart WA.

She is currently employed by Curtin University as an associate researcher. Sandra, in collaboration with Professor Leonard Collard, who is an expert in Nyungar culture, history and language, was successful in gaining an Australian Research Council grant to research and develop the ‘Nyungar Place names and Meanings’ in the South West of Western Australia.