Crystal Triggs is the Project Director of the Bugmy Bar Book and an Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University. In 2023 she was recognised with the New South Wales Regional Practitioner of the Year Award in recognition of her work on the Bugmy Bar Book and as managing lawyer for the northern region of the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) during the 2022 Lismore Floods.
Crystal was also previously a lawyer in the youth team at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) when the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory was announced and continued to represent her youth clients in the Royal Commission, one of her clients becoming a significant case study published in the final report.
Crystal went on to manage the NAAJA youth team. Crystal has also worked as a teaching fellow at the University of New South Wales.
Crystal was also previously a lawyer in the youth team at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) when the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory was announced and continued to represent her youth clients in the Royal Commission, one of her clients becoming a significant case study published in the final report.
Crystal went on to manage the NAAJA youth team. Crystal has also worked as a teaching fellow at the University of New South Wales.