In Episode 7 of Black Business with Dixie Crawford we meet Sam Alderton-Johnson.

Sam grew up on Gadigal Country (Glebe) and now calls Bidjigal Country home (south Sydney). He is the Founder and Director of Impact Policy AU a social policy and communication and engagement service, embedding every project delivered in a critical First Nations lens.

Sam graduated from The University of New South Wales with honours in Social Science, majoring in Criminology and completed a Masters of Teaching studies.

He spent ten years in the Not-for-Profit sector. Sam managed local and state-wide projects for NGO’s such as PCYC NSW where he received employee of the year and the Australian Red Cross where he led the NSW Pilot into Post Release Mentoring for men exiting prison. Sam then went on to lead the Dual Diagnosis team for a community not-for-profit in Waterloo, Sydney. He won an excellence in treatment award for programs and services for Aboriginal young people.

For over five years, Sam worked in senior management roles within the NSW Public Service, specifically Aboriginal Affairs NSW and the Department of Planning Industry and Environment. Sam coordinated Solution Brokerage, a whole of Government project for the then Secretary, Department of Planning, around implementing complex social policy projects in the regional NSW community of Bowraville, following the recommendations of the ‘Parliamentary Inquiry into the Family Response to the Bowraville Murders'.

Outside of Impact Policy, Sam is a father of five jarjums. He does his best to live the values he operates alongside—Access, Equity, Inclusion and Justice.

In this episode Sam yarns with Dixie about his university days, working life (and his observations in those spheres), what reconciliation means to him and how we must engage in agreement making with First Nations communities to deliver long-term and equitable change.

*this episode contains explicit language.

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