Tiarnee Schafer

Tiarnee Schafer is a proud Kalkadunga Kintja (Kalkadoon woman) from Mt Isa QLD and is currently living in Sydney working at the Black Dog Institute as the iBobbly Project Officer and Social and Emotional Wellbeing Community Liaison. She graduated with a double degree in Psychological Science and Business.

After finishing high school, Tiarnee started to notice the alarmingly high rates of suicide in her community and saw the effects it had on her community and family. She wanted to help her mob and thought the best way to do that would be to study Psychology, which saw her move to Brisbane and attend Griffith University. After completing her Bachelor’s degree, Tiarnee has continued on to study a Master of Suicidology and is currently completing her fourth year in psychology studies.

Tiarnee’s lived experiences have made her passionate about improving the Social and EmotionalWellbeing within her own community and the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. She wants to be able to make a difference by gaining a better understanding of best practice in suicide prevention.