Gillian Kennedy is a Translational Research Fellow with Nulungu Research Institute at The University of Notre Dame, Broome campus and has 20 years’ experience as an educator and facilitator. Her research focus is on program and impact evaluation within the justice, education, and Aboriginal Community Controlled sectors. Recently she has been working with the WA Police and the WA Judiciary on designing and evaluating professional development programs that build cultural and historical understandings of First Nations contexts. She lives in Fremantle, WA, and is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University.