Dan Schulz

Dan is a researcher, visual artist, filmmaker and journalist with a doctorate in water justice in the Murray-Darling Basin from the Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy.

Their work in water justice began after mass fish kills saw over one million fish die in the Murray-Darling. Since then, they have been an advocate within academic and policy spaces for the ecological restoration of the Baaka-Darling River, First Nations water sovereignty and water governance reforms.

Combining academic expertise, deep listening to community experience and multimedia storytelling, Dan’s frontline work highlights the consequences of environmental mismanagement and strives to understand and advocate for social movements responding to ecological crises.

To the Kimberley, they bring valuable experience from the most abused river system in Australia, where over-extraction of water, land clearing, invasive species and repeated policy and governance failures produced one of Australia's greatest environmental tragedies.