There’s a new season of leadership at Common Ground as we farewell founding CEO Rona Glynn-McDonald, and welcome incoming CEO Gemma Pol, and COO Katena Valastro.
Originally starting as an Instagram page in 2017, Rona officially founded the organisation in 2019 with a website bringing together First Nations knowledge, cultures and stories.
“Common Ground was created to respond to the limited opportunities that our communities have to tell our stories our own ways in online spaces. Initially it was an opportunity for education and building relationships between our stories, communities and non-Indigenous folk,” Rona said.
“It has grown a lot since then to be an organisation that doesn’t just exist in the online realm, but exists in many places and spaces and backs our communities to grow in our storytelling in whatever format or medium that may be. It continues to use storytelling as a tool to shift systems and …