INDIGENOUS BUSINESS – MAKING OUR OWN NETWORKS

Leesa Watego is a Brisbane-based Murri – mum, educator and business owner. She is passionate about social media, digital technology and Indigenous micro- and small business and the organisations and peak bodies that represent them. Leesa is the current volunteer President of the South East Queensland Chamber of Commerce, is actively working on the development of a Queensland peak body – Indigenous Business Queensland, a director on FACCI, the First Australians Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and co-founder of Indigenous Business Month.  Leesa has been a volunteer contributor to Australian Blak History Month’s Great Moment in Blakistory Fact Sheet series for nine years, and is a newly accredited Level 1 Recreational Running Coach and is currently a volunteer coach the graduate program of the Brisbane Deadly Runners. THERE’S NOTHING SHORT ABOUT BLACK COFFEE… Like most things talked about – projects, initiatives –  this one has a backstory story. In 2014 I read a…