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Travels From:
Regional New South Wales/ACT
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Corey is a Kamilaroi man from Nowra, NSW, and a STEM champion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
As a young person, he developed a love of STEM subjects but found little encouragement for Aboriginal people to pursue careers in STEM.
In 2018, Corey founded DeadlyScience, a not-for-profit organisation that provides STEM resources to remote schools in Australia and connects young Indigenous people with STEM professionals.
In 2020, Corey was named the NSW Young Australian of the Year and a Human Rights Hero by the Australian Human Rights Commission. In 2021, he received an Australian Museum Eureka Prize and was a finalist for the 2022 NSW/ACT Indigenous Young Achiever Award. Corey edits the “DeadlyScience” Australian Geographic series and has written his own book called “The First Scientists”, awarded Australian Book Industry Award Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12) and co-authored "This Book Thinks Ya Deadly" celebrating First Nations excellence, published in 2023. His series of education books for National Geographic was published in 2026.
Corey was recently appointed an Associate Professor of Indigenous Sciences at the University of Western Sydney.
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