Helen is a Kungarakan woman of the Northern Territory. She has five children who have gifted her 12 wonderful grandchildren, they are all very important people in her life. Helen’s professional and academic interests are in her ambitions to enlarge procedural fairness, dispute resolution, problem solving and participatory agreement making specifically to enhance First Nation Australian’s access to services across Australia. Helen champions dispute resolution as a means to closing the gap in service provision as a constructive tool to enable greater access to restorative justice, effective governance and peace-building practices. Helen formalised her deep interests in social equity and peacebuilding by obtaining a MA in Conflict Resolution and a Professional Certificate Indigenous Research and Leadership. Her aim is to support methods and practices with First Nation Australians in navigating conflict and process managing disputes that would otherwise continue to see them in regular contact with the criminal justice systems; the Police, Courts, Custodial services, Family and Children’s services and other challenging or intrusive social deterrents and exchanges. Helen is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and the Winner of the Australian ADR Award: ATSIS Mediator of the Year 2019. She has contributed to the following bodies across Australia; as a Member of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council to the Federal Attorney General 2001-2004, as the Convenor of Indigenous Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management Project, 2002-2004, as a Consultant to the Federal Court of Australia’s Indigenous Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management Project 2009, and worked as a Mediator in Right People for Country Project, Victoria 2012-2015. She delivered the Inaugural Keynote to the ADR Indigenous Communities Conference, Victoria, 2015. Helen was also a Director, Mediator Standards Board 2018-2019 and remains a contributing member of the Conference Design Committee National Mediation Conference 2018 – 2021. Helen an Australian Member of the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth, (WMC). She hopes to amplify First Nation critical access to culturally effective peace making and building services particularly as these concern community safety, wellbeing and global health across communities. Helen’s objectives are to amplify the need for first nation access to level playing fields for First Nation Australian’s and to enable free, fair and effective non-harmful problem solving that will care for the interests, needs and concerns they express.