Regina Featherstone joined the Human Rights Law Centre in July 2023. She is a Senior Lawyer in the centre’s Whistleblower Project, which is designed to help protect whistleblowers and create stronger public interest accountability mechanisms in the government and private sector. It is the first service of its kind in Australia.

Prior to joining Human Rights Law Centre, Regina was a Senior Associate in the Pro Bono team at Allens. She was also an employment and discrimination lawyer at Redfern Legal Centre for several years. There, she focused on migrant worker exploitation and workplace sexual harassment through casework, strategic advocacy and law reform. She brings her employment law expertise and understanding of the community legal sector to assist clients in coming forward on wrongdoing in the workplace and in breaking down structural barriers that prevent truth-telling. In her early career, Regina also worked as a solicitor on Nauru and across Australia assisting asylum seekers to secure refugee status.

Regina was jointly awarded The University of Sydney’s first Social Justice-Practitioner-in-Residence in 23/24. You can read her research on the prevalence of non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment settlements since the Respect@Work Report here.