Bronte Gosper (2021)

Bronte Gosper was born and raised in the small town of Orange in Australia. She is a proud Wiradjuri woman who is passionate about making lasting change for Indigenous communities through creating publicly accessible oral historical documentaries. She has recently written and directed a play 'Yiraway (Mirage)' that was an exploration of the illusions that pervade settler Australia seen through the eyes of a Wiradjuri woman.

She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in History. Bronte has interned with Killer Films/Moxie Pictures in New York and completed a semester of exchange at Barnard College. She has a keen interest in Chinese history and Mandarin language and spent 2 months in Shanghai in 2018, studying mandarin at Fudan University. In 2020, Bronte interned with the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, where she led a community engagement project that informed a research paper investigating the unique challenges faced by indigenous women. I hope to produce a work through OHMA that will give me the opportunity to elevates Indigenous womens' voices at home and in the US. Through recording the histories of Indigenous women involved in advocacy work in the late 20th Century, Bronte hopes to strengthen ties between Native American women and Indigenous Australian women's organisations. She hopes that this documentary will create an archive for future advocates and policy makers while informing the Australian public about issues that are often told for Indigenous women, rather than by them. For the past year, she has worked at FIrst Nations Media as a project support officer. As part of this work, she co-authored a research paper exploring how Indigenous community broadcasters responded to COVID-19. She briefly lived in Jamaica and wants to return as soon as she can!

Her passions include acting, writing plays and music, singing and dancing with friends.