Shelley Ware is a proud Yankunytjatjara and Wirangu woman from Adelaide, South Australia, who currently lives in Melbourne.

For the past decade or so, Shelley has worked in the media as a radio and television presenter on both local and national AFLM and AFLW football news shows. She hosted AFL.com’s The Colour Of Your Jumper and Ware2Now? and is also a member of the Outersanctum Podcast Show. Recently she has joined Broad Radio as one of the Morning Broads. She writes an opinion and AFL column fortnightly for the Koori Mail.

She is the chairperson of the Carlton FC RAP committee and Banyule City Council RAP committee. She is also a board member of the Victorian Institute of Sport. Shelley is a well sought after MC and key note speaker.

Shelley has co-written the national curriculum through, Australia Post, Culture is Life and ABC Education for the Australian Dream and Archie Roach – Stolen Generation. For the six years in a row, she has written the national primary curriculum for NAIDOC week with SBS Learn and this year writing both primary and Secondary.

Shelley is also a teacher with two decades of experience and is now an education consultant travelling Australia to work with schools. She is passionate about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history being embedded into our national curriculum. Shelley has been an Indigenous Literacy Foundation Ambassador for the past ten years.Stay up to date with Shelley Ware on Instagram and LinkedIn.

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