Rona Glynn-McDonald
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Rona Glynn-McDonald, also known by her stage name RONA., is an Aboriginal Australian activist, advocate, and musician. She is known as the founder of the not-for-profit Common Ground.
Rona Glynn-McDonald is the daughter of film-makers Warwick Thornton and Penelope McDonald; she is also the granddaughter of Freda Glynn and the sister of Dylan River. She grew up in Alice Springs (Mparntwe).[1][2][3] She is a Kaytetye woman.[1]
She later studied economics in Melbourne, where she began to think about the role that cultural capital plays in sustainable development for First Nations communities, and why western economic systems were not serving her people. This led her to realise the importance of storytelling in shaping the understanding of both the present and the past.[4]