Tranby, Glebe Black Coffee
Everyone is welcome to join our newly appointed Black Coffee host Tranby, who has nominated dedicated volunteer regional coordinator Amy Michelle. Amy is a proud Narungga/Wiradjuri Yinaa (woman), mother/young grandmother who was born and raised in Wiradjuri Country NSW. Formally an Aboriginal Studies Teacher and Adult Learning Facilitator across regional NSW. After moving to Sydney in 2023, Amy has recently joined the team at Tranby Aboriginal Cooperative as a Special Projects Officer working across their many Indigenous education programs, social enterprise initiatives, and oral histories program.
A word from Amy:
After moving to the city, and feeling a bit homesick, I found myself feeling most at home in the kitchen at Tranby, having a cuppa with community Elders, just being with local mob and having a yarn… this is how we connect and network as individuals and find our place within a new community… sharing ideas, having a laugh and making new connections.
Established in 1957, Tranby is Australia’s oldest independent First Nations education provider.
Tranby has been a pioneer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult education and an important hub of social action for decades.
Tranby provides a culturally safe space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to meaningfully pursue their personal and communal needs and aspirations. Tranby takes great pride in its ability to initiate and execute projects led and driven by community, centering holistic worldviews and understandings of personhood. Our myriad programs are deeply interconnected, grounded in our long history of social, political, and educational activism, and embedded within a strong network of First Nations and ally organisations. Aboriginal ways of being, learning, and knowing are incorporated into everything that we do.
