Priscilla Atkins

Priscilla "Cilla" Atkins, (formerly Collins) is a prominent Aboriginal leader, advocate and television producer. Atkins was the Chief Executive Officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), the largest law firm in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Early life

Priscilla Atkins, formerly Priscilla Collins and known as "Cilla", is an

Atkins is an outspoken advocate on issues affecting Aboriginal people across the Northern Territory, including the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in prison, overcrowding and homelessness and problems in the Northern Territory Government’s mismanagement of remote public housing.[4]

Atkins was the Chief Executive Officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal service, which is also the largest law firm in the Northern Territory.

Atkins was awarded the Telstra Business Woman’s Award for Community and Government in 2011.^[5]

She is a non-member director of the Danila Dilba Health Service. She was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), Australia’s largest Aboriginal media organisation. Atkins was heavily involved of the establishment of National Indigenous Television, Australia’s first Indigenous television station.^[3] She has been on the Boards of Indigenous Business Australia, Imparja Television, National Indigenous Television Service and Indigenous Screen Australia, MusicNT and Chairperson of the Australian Indigenous Communications Association.

Atkins has produced television documentaries for

Atkins has ten children.[1]

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