Jodie Ryan is a Gunditjmara women with family ties originally from the South West Victoria.  Jodie has CPA qualifications and a Bachelor of Business.  Jodie worked previously as an Accountant/Auditor with Ernst and Young and in Business Development for the Victorian State Government's Koorie Business Network.  She has worked in various areas of Aboriginal Affairs specializing in community development through education, employment and economic development.

Jodie is the Director of Ingenuity which provides specialist skills and knowledge in working in Indigenous Communities. 

In 1999 Jodie received the NAIDOC Victorian Young Aboriginal Achiever of the Year, and in 2002 Jodie went to Geneva as the Australian youth representative to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations and was elected to the previous Tumbukka ATSIC regional council.  Throughout this time Jodie was a finalist for the Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year, has been listed on the Victorian Women Honor Role, awarded the Centenary Medal and listed in the Australian Woman Who's Who publication.

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