NATSILS Team
Chair Person

Priscilla Atkins
CEO
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
Priscilla Atkins is Eastern Arrernte from Central Australia and mother of 10 children and grandmother to 17 grandchildren.
Priscilla is the CEO of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), the largest legal service in the Northern Territory, providing high-quality and culturally appropriate legal aid services for Indigenous people. She is fully engaged in pursuing the rights of Indigenous people through law and policy reform, and has a long history of actively promoting Indigenous culture, language, dance and music worldwide.
Previously, Cilla was the CEO of the CAAMA Group, the largest Indigenous owned and operated multimedia organisation in Australia, managing their commercial enterprises through radio broadcasting, remote Indigenous broadcasting, independent music label, film and television production company, shops and television broadcasting.
Cilla also previously held a position on the NT Indigenous Affairs Advisory Council, was a Board Director on Indigenous Business Australia, Chairperson of the Indigenous Australian Communications Association, Board Director of Imparja Television, National Indigenous Television Service and Indigenous Screen Australia.
She holds a Master of Arts in Producing, and worked with Owen Cole and Rachel Perkins in setting up NITV, the first Indigenous television station, worked with the Australian Indigenous Communications Association in establishing the National Indigenous Television Service, and was the Executive Producer and creator of the first Indigenous children’s television series, Double Trouble.
Highly regarded across various fields, Cilla was included in the 2008-2015 edition of Who’s Who of Australian Women, and has been awarded an array of accolades including: Northern Territory Businesswoman of the Year (2011) Community and Government Sector, Certificate of Recognition in Aboriginal Leadership from the Department of Attorney General and Justice, Northern Territory Correctional Services, Northern Territory award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership in 2020 and was a state finalist for the Australian Leader & Excellence Award. Cilla was also featured in a book in 2014 called "The Climb" written by Geraldine Doogue on the 14 top women leaders in Australia.
NATSILS staff

Roxanne Moore
Executive Officer
NATSILS
Roxanne Moore is a Noongar woman and human rights lawyer from Margaret River in Western Australia. She is the Executive Officer for the National Peak body on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS).
Previously, Roxanne was an Indigenous Rights Campaigner with Amnesty International Australia and Principal Advisor to Change the Record Coalition.
Roxanne has worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, as Principal Associate to the Hon Chief Justice Wayne Martin AC QC; as a commercial litigator; and has international experience with UNHCR Jordan and New York University’s Global Justice Clinic.
Roxanne studied law at the University of WA, and completed an LLM (International Legal Studies) at NYU, specialising in human rights law, as a 2013 Fulbright Western Australian Scholar.