Ms Petra Cooper

Petra is a Biripi woman with bloodline ties to Foster/Tuncurry area of the NSW mid-north coast, and Southern Italy. She was born and grew up on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land, and has recently returned after living in Queensland for a few years. She has worked in the tertiary education sector for 10 years, working in a broad range of roles at the Australian National University, University of Queensland, and University of Southern Queensland. She has worked in Operations, Facilities, Student Administration, Academic Administration, Teaching and Learning Design, Research, Executive Services and Project and Event management.

At Yardhura Walani, Petra is working as a Research Officer across a range of projects in the Culture and Wellbeing team. She brings with her a broad range of institutional and sector knowledge, a relational, customer-centric approach, and a passionate attitude. She is excited and proud to be involved with the work being conducted at Yardhura Walani.

In her spare time, Petra enjoys video games, board games, music, and anything creative. Most importantly, she is a mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, spouse, friend and fur-mum, and her loved ones are everything thing to her.