Amy Ridge is a member of the Australian women’s water polo team, the ‘Aussie Stingers’. She is a World Championship bronze medallist and is currently training for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She is passionate about diverse representation in sport and equal sporting opportunities in the broader community.

As well as training and competing, Amy is studying a Bachelor of Arts/ Law at UNSW. This sparked her interest in Indigenous justice and confronting the issues in our criminal justice system, particularly the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in custody.

As a Share a Yarn Ambassador she hopes to learn from and develop connections with Indigenous cultures across Australia so that she can better understand and engage with these issues in her future career.