Ms. Dorothy (Dot) West OAM is a Noongar woman from the south west of Western Australia, with ancestral ties to the north and has been living and working in the Kimberley region since 1977.

Ms West is a director of Broome-based Goolarri Media Enterprises and its production arm, Ramu Productions, and is known for her writing on The Heights, Little J & Big Cuz, and The Circuit, which she also co-produced.

Ms West is the inaugural chair of the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group. Ms West has served on Screenwest’s Industry Advisory Group and WA’s Screen Industry Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Group, as well as on the boards of SBS, NITV, Screenwest, the Australian International Documentary Conference, the National Indigenous Radio Service and as chair of First Nations Media Australia.