Andrew Dowding

Andrew is the Managing Director of Winyama and the Leader of Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia.

Andrew’s role is to manage and guide the Winyama organisation, to create opportunities for our staff to grow into their roles, and most importantly to generate work for our organisation to be sustainable. Andrew is from the Ngarluma traditional owner group and grew up between Perth, Sydney, and the Pilbara. 

Andrew has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney majoring in Anthropology and History, and is a current PhD candidate in Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne. Andrew has lived and worked in a range of places from Perth, Broome, Arnhem Land, Los Angeles, Sydney, New Delhi and Roebounre. Each of these places has provided him with the skills and experiences that he brings to his current role. Andew’s major professional roles have been in the fields of Native Title, ethnographic heritage survey and more recently in Indigenous mapping. 

 Andrew’s passion is Indigenous mapping and the uses of technology for cultural safeguarding. He co-founded Winyama in 2018 and is leading the Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia to provide more opportunity for Indigenous people to work in the geospatial industry and within the broader digital economy. 

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