Teela Reid is a Rebellious Lawyer, storyteller, essayists and proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman. Teela is also the co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, an instagram platform that honours First Nation’s Ancestors as the original Storytellers. As a Rebellious Lawyer, Teela is passionate about combining her legal knowledge, storytelling skills and community activism to cultivate positive generational change.
In 2024, Teela was appointed Special Counsel at the Environmental Defenders Office, where she specialises in the protection of cultural heritage.
Teela is an experienced Senior Solicitor with practice in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and in 2022 was appointed the inaugural First Nations Lawyer in residence at The University of Sydney Law School. She was also a working group leader on section 51(xxvi), the Race Power of the Australian Constitution, in the process that underpinned the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Teela completed her Postgraduate Juris Doctor/Law from the University of New South Wales. She has a double Bachelor degree in BA.Secondary Teaching/BA.Health and Physical Education from the University of Newcastle, where she studied abroad in Canada. Teela is a graduate of the Global Emerging Leaders Program at The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Boston USA.
Teela has won multiple awards for her contribution to the law and society;
Teela is currently in the process of publishing her debut novel, Legally Blak.
