# Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Yasmin Behrendt (born 1969) is a legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate, an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Eualeyai/Kamillaroi peoples. As of 2020 she is a Professor of Law and Director of Research and Academic Programs at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney, and holds the inaugural Chair in Indigenous Research. == Early life and education == Behrendt was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1969, Her mother, who was non-Indigenous, worked in naval intelligence, while her father was an air traffic controller and later an Aboriginal Studies academic.