Academic Director, Indigenous Professor Bindi Bennett 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 who is committed to improving and growing cultural responsiveness, re-Indigenising Western spaces, understanding and exploring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in research and exploring the human-animal bond.