NATASHA CICA is director of the Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society at the University of Tasmania, which advances the university's community engagement and thought leadership agenda.

In 2012 she was awarded an inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.

Natasha has worked as a lawyer, political adviser and policy analyst in Europe and Australia.

She was the founding editor of newmatilda.com and established the consultancy Periwinkle Projects.

Her recent book is Pedder Dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and A Lost Tasmanian Wilderness (UQP, 2011).