Dr Noritta Morseu-Diop, a First Nations woman with dark curly hair, wearing a deep purple top, a blue and purple silk scarf, and a silver pendant, smiling at the camera.
When
Sunday 21 June 202611.15 AM
Where
Darnell RoomSt John’s Cathedral
Cost
FreeAll welcome
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Hosted by Uncle Bill Lemson Co-Chair, First Nations Allies Magandjin

About Dr Noritta Morseu-Diop

Dr Noritta Morseu-Diop is a First Nations woman from Tamwoy Town on Waiben — Thursday Island — in the Torres Strait. A First Nations counselling practitioner, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian College of Applied Professions, Managing Director of Malu Mai Wellness Consultancy, and a founding member of Gallang Place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Counselling Services. She holds a PhD in Criminal Justice and Social Work from The University of Queensland (2010), and is recognised as the first Torres Strait Islander to be awarded a PhD from UQ.

“Education is the key. Education pulled me out of poverty, education gave me the drive to carry on. It gave me the wings to fly.”

Dr Morseu-Diop · University of Queensland alumni profile

For over thirty years, Dr Morseu-Diop has worked in grassroots Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities — and within non-Indigenous communities — throughout Queensland. Her work spans grief, loss and bereavement counselling, criminal justice and prison rehabilitation, mental health, drug and alcohol counselling, community development, cross-cultural education, and advocacy for Indigenous health, human rights and social justice.

Dr Morseu-Diop’s doctoral research listened to Indigenous people inside the prison system — the people she calls the silent and forgotten — and asked what genuine healing and rehabilitation would look like on their terms. Gallang Place, which she helped found, focuses on services to improve the emotional and social wellbeing and mental health of Indigenous communities.

She published her research as Healing in Justice: Giving a Voice to the Silent and Forgotten People. She is a recipient of the University of Queensland’s 2018 Indigenous Community Impact Award and its 2010 Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Research, a 2011 Winston Churchill Fellow, and a 2006 Australian Federation of University Women Fellow.

Dr Morseu-Diop joins Uncle Bill Lemson at St John’s Cathedral on Sunday 21 June 2026 to share her story — truth-telling, healing and justice, in the Yarning Circle. Come and Connect.

The printable flyer for the 21 June Yarning Circle with Dr Noritta Morseu-Diop. Download the flyer (PDF)

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21 June Yarning Circle with Dr Morseu-Diop

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An arched sandstone entrance to St John's Cathedral, with ramp access.
Cathedral entry, ramp access · Darnell Room, far side