Marisa Paterson
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6 November 1982
Marisa Paterson | |
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| Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Murrumbidgee | |
| Assumed office 17 October 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Bec Cody |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marisa Paterson 6 November 1982 |
| Party | Labor Party |
| Alma mater | Charles Darwin University (PhD) Australian National University (MAAPD) Monash University (BA) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Academic |
| Website | www |
Marisa Paterson (born 6 November 1982)[1] is an Australian anthropologist, academic and politician. She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in 2020, representing the Australian Labor Party[2] for the electorate of Murrumbidgee.
Paterson was born in Melbourne but spent much of her childhood in the high country of Victoria. She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Psychology, before moving to Canberra in 2005 to pursue a Masters of Anthropology and participatory Development at the Australian National University.[3]
Following that, Paterson moved to Darwin, Northern Territory to pursue a PhD with Charles Darwin University, studying the impacts of gambling in remote Indigenous communities[4] before returning to Canberra in 2013 to taking up work in a range of research schools and centres at the ANU. In 2017 she became the Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at the ANU and continued to work for the centre until her election to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2020.
