Karen Mundine

CEO Reconciliation Australia
UTS 2021 Alumni Award Recipient - Indigenous Australian Award

Bachelor of Arts in Communication, 1993

Karen has shaped the national journey towards a just, equitable and reconciled Australia. A proud Bundjalung woman, she has been involved in reconciliation for several decades, culminating in her appointment as CEO of Reconciliation Australia in 2017. 

Karen is known as a leader who will always preference action in social justice over public profile, and responsibility to community over individualism. She has been instrumental in the development of some of Australia’s watershed national events including the Apology to the Stolen Generations, Centenary of Federation commemorations, Corroboree 2000, and the 1997 Australian Reconciliation Convention.

Her work led to the development and implementation of the State of Reconciliation in Australia Report, and the Australian Reconciliation Barometer – documents upon which national reconciliation is based and measured. 

In December 2021, Karen gave an online talk on Three Decades of Reconciliation for the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Indigenous Lecture, which you can watch here.

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Connect with the UTS FASS Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group and The Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges.

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