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 also worked at Redfern Legal Centre in their employment team. 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.
For several years, Regina also worked as a solicitor on Nauru and across Australia assisting asylum seekers to secure refugee status.
Recently, Regina and Sharmilla Bargon (Redfern Legal Centre) were selected as The University of Sydney’s first Social Justice Practitioners in Residence, commencing in late 2023. Their project will complete research on the practice of non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment settlements and their impact on sexual harassment reform in Australia.
Regina sits on the board of the Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre and volunteers with both the Top End Womens Legal Service and Redfern Legal Centre.