Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman, Karina Lester is set to receive the Bettison & James Award at this year's Adelaide film festival this Sunday.  

The Bettison & James Award provides $50,000 in recognition of inspiring lifelong contribution by an individual working in any field.  Karina is Aboriginal Co-Manager and Senior Aboriginal Language Expert for the Mobile Language Team (MLT) at Adelaide University and is celebrated for her dedication to language revival and preservation.  

She's also an anti-nuclear activist, and ambassador with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), sharing family stories linked with early British nuclear weapon testing on Emu Plains with one instance causing her Father to be blinded by the black mist of Totem 1.

Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman, Karina Lester is set to receive the Bettison &amp; James Award at this year's Adelaide film festival this Sunday. &nbsp;
The Bettison &amp; James Award provides $50,000 in recognition of inspiring lifelong contribution by an individual working in any field. &nbsp;Karina is Aboriginal Co-Manager and Senior Aboriginal Language Expert for the Mobile Language Team (MLT) at Adelaide University and is celebrated for her dedication to language revival and preservation. &nbsp;
She's also an anti-nuclear activist, and ambassador with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), sharing family stories linked with early British nuclear weapon testing on Emu Plains with one instance causing her Father to be blinded by the black mist of Totem 1.