Barbara Ambjerg Pedersen
Barbara Ambjerg Pedersen moved with her family from Melbourne to Mataranka in the Northern Territory as a child. At 17 years old she begin nursing at the old Darwin Hospital when Matron Bullwinkle was in charge. In the years in between then and now she has travelled the world, had a family and finally came full circle back to the Territory. Since November 2001 she has worked as Manager for Mimi Arts & Crafts in Katherine resurrecting the Art Centre, and its Aboriginal Board, following the catastrophic Australia Day Floods in 1998. Prior to that she spent some years studying at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. She has worked with the Holdfast Bay Reconciliation Group in Adelaide and was involved with the writing of the Kaurna booklet 'Footsteps in the Sand'.