Jax Compton Email & Phone Number

Jax Compton is a proud Traditional Custodian of the Nara Jira Para clan of the Wuthathi peoples (East Cape York). She is also a Zenadth Kes (Thursday, Badu + Moa Islands) woman, mum, daughter, aunty, niece, cousin + cousin sister. She is the current Senior Advisor, First Nations Capability at the Australian Sports Commission working in the Diversity, People + Culture team. Jax is a cultural woman, a holder of a Masters in Cultural Leadership, and an ambassador for her peoples. Her family are cultural practitioners, sportspeople, artists, leaders, and hard workers. Values of work ethic and unwavering contribution to our communities is the lineage Jax continues in her work each day. Not for recognition, or credit, but so when the tide rides, all the boats rise. Her professional career to date, such as Cultural Manager at Teams Mills Foundation and Indigenous Basketball Australia, representing First Peoples at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, in Geneva, on the protection of traditional cultural practices and knowledges, and co-founding Muggera Cultural Enterprise, an Aboriginal cultural education and performance business – for almost 10 years, has enabled Jax to gain knowledge, expertise and skills to design and deliver programs and policies that centre First Peoples, and in doing so honour her Elders. These Elders have taught Jax the importance of finding a passion and purpose and using her skills of her generation to make an impact on the next. Jax values her identity and community throughout her work, as she embodies the values of authentic cultural leadership through the centering of First Peoples knowledges and the unwavering promotion of cultural safety.