Dr Sadie Heckenberg is the President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Association, holds a ministerial appointment on the Higher Education Standards Panel and sits on the TEQSA Student Expert Panel. A Wiradjuri woman, Sadie is the Program Coordinator of the Indigenous Higher Education Pathways Program and a Lecturer in the College of Indigenous Studies, Education and Research at the University of Southern Queensland. A 2014 Fulbright Scholar, Sadie has been a Columbia University Oral History Institute Summer Fellow (2017) and NLA Norman McCann Summer Scholar (2017). Sadie has recently completed a PhD in Indigenous Oral History at Swinburne University of Technology focusing on Indigenous methodologies, Cultural Safety andprotecting Indigenous spoken knowledge.