Professor Bindi Bennett (she/her) is a K/Gamilaroi woman, mother, and social worker and is a Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University living, playing and working on Jinibara lands. She is a social justice scholar, a compassionate radical and activist requesting transformational change. Her research areas are disability/neurodivergence, Remote, Rural and Regional Aboriginal wellbeing and AI in the First Nations space.
Professor Kelly Menzel is a Ngadjuri woman from mid north South Australia with ancestral connections to Bundjalung Nation. Bundjalung Country is where she lives, works and plays. She is a nurse by trade and has worked in higher education and research for over 20 years. Her research area of interest is radically challenging race-based violence in institutions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Pedagogy and methodology, Aboriginal women in leadership and seeking socially just, transformational change. She is currently a Professor and inaugural Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiative at the Burnet Institute.