ABOUT AMELIA

melia Olsen is a mum, author of ‘Dirt and Dust’ and ‘Flower Thief’. She is also a small school teaching principal, PhD student and Mongolian trekker.

Amelia doesn’t have hobbies, but instead launches herself into self-confessed ‘passion-projects’.

She has a Diploma of Agriculture, Bachelor of Education, Primary and Middle School (Honors), Master of Education (Leadership & Management) and is currently studying for a PhD.

Amelia has decided to take leave from her teaching-principal role in 2024 to complete her doctoral study titled ‘Creating cultural change from vulnerable to thriving in regional, rural and remote schools across Queensland’.

Riley, now a qualified motor mechanic, is working on a cattle property in the Northern Territory. Jacinta, the third amigo, and Amelia’s youngest, lives and works in Cairns, Far North Queensland.

 

AMELIA OLSEN QUALIFICATIONS

Diploma of Agriculture

Bachelor of Education, Primary & Middle School (Honours)

Master of Education (Leadership & Management)

PhD Student (2019-2025)

listen to amelia via podcast

#neveralone hosts Joe and Mark invited Amelia to be a guest on their podcast about ‘Suicide-causes and impacts’. The podcast elaborates on some of the topics covered in the book of ‘Dirt and Dust’

Sharing this story has been a difficult balance between telling the kick-arse truth and being gentle enough for the three of us to survive our own individual lives.

Amelia