Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt AO is the Distinguished Professor and Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney. She has a LLB and B.Juris from UNSW and a LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School. Larissa is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She is currently Chair of the National Library of Australia, Chair of Writing Australia, a board member of Creative Australia, Chair of the Murrup Foundation, Chair of the National Justice Project, a Trustee of the Australian Museum and a board member of Sydney Dance Company. Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. In 2021 she received the Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Medal and in 2020 she received an Order of Australia for distinguished service to Indigenous education and research, to the law, and to the visual and performing arts. In 2009 she was NAIDOC Person of the Year and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. Her previous novels include Home, Legacy and After Story.