Meet The Team
Bianca Hennessy
Founder & Facilitator
Hennessy Legacy
Collective.
Bianca Hennessy is a proud Malyangapa woman. Drawing on her lived experience and her family’s long history of community-led healing, Bianca creates supportive spaces for people to reconnect with their identity through story, creative expression, and shared truth. Her work focuses on strengthening spirit, rebuilding confidence, and helping people feel grounded, seen, and supported in culturally meaningful ways.
Coral Hennessy
Elder & Advisor
Hennessy Legacy
Collective.
Coral Hennessy is a proud Malyangapa women, respected Aboriginal community leader and a key custodian of the Hennessy family’s healing legacy. As former Chairperson of The Glen, she has supported community wellbeing for decades through quiet strength, cultural integrity, and unwavering commitment. Coral continues to guide and inspire the Hennessy Legacy Collective with her wisdom and deep connection to community.
James Hennessy
Youth Advisor
Hennessy Legacy
Collective.
James Hennessy is a proud Malyangapa man and Youth Advisor with the Hennessy Legacy Collective, committed to empowering the next generation through culture, identity, and connection. With lived experience growing up in a community shaped by both resilience and challenge, James brings a grounded, relatable voice to young people navigating their own pathways..
From the left:
Cyril Hennessy, May Hunt,
and Coral Hennessy
Where It All Began
The Hennessy Legacy story is one of healing, not perfection, but persistence.
It began with May Hunt, born in the red dust of Milparinka in 1900. She was a woman of strength and courage, fearless, creative, and grounded in culture. She raised her children to stand tall, to fight with dignity, and to love without fear.
​From her came Cyril (who founded The Glen Rehabilitation Centre). He was a man who saw pain in his people and decided to do something about it. In 1979, he founded the National Aboriginal Mental Health Association and called for Aboriginal people to lead their own healing. He said, “When an Aboriginal person reconnects with land and story, they remember who they are and that memory becomes medicine.”
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He was decades ahead of his time. He gave our people language for something we already knew: that healing must come from within community, led by culture and truth.
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Then there was Glen, Cyril's Son, the linguist and poet. He wrote the heart of our people into words. His poems spoke about the quiet things, the pain, the laughter, the loneliness, the fight to belong. He showed that storytelling could heal what medicine could not.
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And then Coral, Cyril's Sister, who carried that work forward at The Glen. The quiet leader, strong, humble, steady. She didn’t chase recognition, but she built legacies behind the scenes. She was the rock that kept everything standing.
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And now it’s the next generations turn, to continue that story.
