Regina Turner is a Zenadth Kes, Waggadagum, Ipkaziw, Torres Strait, Mabuyag clan, Woman.   She married her high school sweetheart, a mother and grandmother to 3 children and 7 grandchildren.  She resides on Aboriginal Land, Hammond Island, traditionally called Kerriri. Regina and her husband, Edwin, co-founded their creative arts business in 2017 called Panipan Designs.

In 2010 she was elected as President of Mura Kosker Sorority Inc, Torres Strait's peak women's organisation, established in 1988. She thoroughly enjoys the challenges of providing leadership and governance, alongside the support of the other nine board representatives. Mura Kosker traditionally means "All Women Sisters".  https://m.facebook.com/murakos... 

Regina is passionate about community engagement, self determination, social and economical enrichment programs in remote communities. She firmly believes Education Is The Key.   As a child her parents instilled that in her and their children’s children.  

In 2015, Regina was selected to participate in the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation - Leadership Program, Cohort 22. Her cohort and fellow alumni travelled nationally and internationally to Indonesia, learning about regional and global issues and it's effects on society.

Regina has been fundamentally involved in the establishment of the Torres Strait Writers Group since 2016.   She hopes to reignite the flame and bring together women, girls, children and menfolk, to capture Torres Strait traditional, fictional and non-fictional stories, embedded with traditional languages. 

She is keen to learn her traditional mother tongues, Mabuyag and Meriam Mir dialects.