Meena Singh

Ms Meena Singh is a Yorta Yorta and Indian woman, born and living on the lands of the Kulin Nations. She holds a Bachelor degree in Arts from The University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Law from Monash University.

Ms Singh has over 20 years of experience in legal practice, individual and systemic advocacy and organisational development. Her passion is for elevating and advocating for the voices of people in the community who have been silenced through processes of marginalisation and exclusion, by valuing the learning gained through lived experience as highly as that of academic learning. She is driven to decolonising systems to centre Aboriginal ways of learning, being and doing for the benefit of all people.

After completing her law degree, Ms Singh commenced her legal career as a researcher at the Federal Court of Australia, then undertook her articled clerkship at Victoria Legal Aid and was a criminal and human rights lawyer for many years. She later returned as the Inaugural Director, Aboriginal Services to drive organisational change in improving services for Aboriginal clients and community. She has directed and establish legal programs with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Human Rights Law Centre, including leading advocacy for raising the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria, and nationally, to 14.

She is currently the Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People in Victoria, a role in which she advocates for the voices of Aboriginal children and young people to be heard in the decisions made about them in child protection and criminal law systems, and for systemic improvement in both systems.

Ms Singh has lent her expertise to numerous boards of orgnaisations, including the Sentencing Advisory Council, the Women’s Legal Service Victoria and the Koorie Heritage Trust.