Panel: Restorative justice and sexual harm

Chay Brown is born and raised in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, where she is currently based. Chay is a Research and Partnership Manager at The Equality Institute and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. Chay has lived experience of domestic, family and sexual violence, and regularly speaks as a survivor advocate to inform policy and programming responses to violence against women and children. Chay Brown has been researching violence against women since 2012 and works closely with Aboriginal women’s groups in the Northern Territory to prevent family violence. Chay’s doctoral research explored what works to prevent violence against women in the Northern Territory, which led to the development of a Northern Territory specific violence prevention framework. In 2021, Chay was the project lead on research exploring experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in regional and remote areas.  Chay is also the lead author of the ‘Rante rante ampe Marle and Urreye’ Research Report – the first evaluation of primary prevention projects in the Northern Territory. Chay has previously worked in safe houses and for an anti-trafficking organisation, supporting women who have survived sex trafficking.