Author/Editor: Judy Atkinson

Professor Judy Atkinson's heritage is the Jiman people of the Upper Dawson in Central West Queensland, and the Bundjalung of Northern NSW.

Judy has focused most of her community and academic life working in the field of violence, trauma and healing. At the professional level in this field she has followed the oral tradition through her presentations as an invited keynote speaker at numerous conferences, many of which have been published.

Judy holds a BA in Arts from the University of Canberra, majors in Professional Writing and Media Studies (UC) and Aboriginal Studies (ANU), and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology in the area of Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Aboriginal Australia.

She has published widely in the areas of Indigenous Therapies, Health and Healing in Aboriginal Families and Communities, Transgenerational Trauma, Violence in Aboriginal Australia, and Gender Relations in Aboriginal Communities. Judy also has practical experience through leadership and involvement in programs and workshops for community healing and violence prevention.

She is the author of Trauma Trails: Recreating Songlines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia (2002).