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Sherry Atkinson has studied at Tranby Aboriginal College and Performing Arts at Eora College in Sydney and has modelled, acted, and worked in community radio. Atkinson was fostered out at a young age to a non-Aboriginal couple but left her foster family at the age of fifteen in search of her Aboriginal family.

Atkinson's story was recorded and transcribed in The Lost Children: Thirteen Australians Taken from Their Aboriginal Families Tell of the Struggle to Find Their Natural Parents (1989), edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.