Gillian Kennedy is a Translational Research Fellow with Nulungu Research Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) and a Masters in Community and International Development. She is currently enrolled in a PhD entitled: On-Country cross-cultural immersion programs for the Western Australian judiciary: A participatory action research project to inform design, delivery and impact. Gillian has 20 years’ experience as an educator and facilitator. She lived in the Kimberley region of Western Australia for 15 years, working in remote Aboriginal communities, firstly as a teacher and then as a project worker with Indigenous Protected Area and Aboriginal ranger programs. In 2011 she moved to Broome and began working as a researcher and lecturer at Nulungu. Her research focus is on program and impact evaluation within the Indigenous justice, cross-cultural education, and Aboriginal Community Controlled sectors. She has worked 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. Gillian is a board member of Backroom Press Inc., a Broome-based micro publishing house.