Founder Tiffany Hunter , a Taungurung woman built Nerdu Badji Education through inspiration from her great Uncle Roy Patterson who taught her to live and embrace her culture through education and employment.
Uncle Roy Patterson worked as an Indigenous Educator at the Camp Jungai outdoor education facility and at Holmesglen Rural Learning Centre at Eildon, where he became renowned for applying traditional knowledge to his cooking and in medicinal interventions.
ANU Press published book ‘On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture’, a collaboration between Elder Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones, which draws upon Taungurung oral knowledge and an unusually rich historical record. The book can be found here -> https://pos.li/2isxou
