“I feel passionate and committed to work on issues relating to Empowerment of women and girls, diminishing cultures, global health, sustainability and the environment. This year I am pleased to be invited to attend a masters degree in Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. I am looking forward to this coming academic year and the opportunity to study while continuing to develop my project
and find new collaborations.”
Ally has worked extensively with some of Papua’s least contacted and most remote tribes, including the Kosua of the Bosavi crater as well as the Meakambut, a semi-nomadic group that occupy rock shelters and caves in seasonal rotation with hunting shelters. Ally first travelled solo to Papua New Guinea in 1997, at the age of 17, where she spent months living with isolated tribes. She crossed the Sepik River by canoe twice, trekked the Kokoda Trail, and became initiated into one of the Sepik tribes as well as into the Kosua tribe. Her first book describing her travels in Papua, “Touching Genesis”, was published in 2001. In the last four years Ally has dedicated her work to project “Wild Born”. Through film, photography and writing, this project documents the ancient ways, intimate ceremonies and sacred rites surrounding childbirth amongst tribal women. To learn more about the project please visit the project page. With her husband, Ally offers yoga and whale swim eco trips in Tonga to raise awareness towards ocean and marine life conservation through personal experience of interacting with the magnificent Humpback whales
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