Dr Georgia Durmush is a proud Wailwan and Gomeroi woman. She is a mother, researcher, academic and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth Work in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. She has a PhD in Indigenous higher education youth wellbeing from the Australian Catholic University. Dr Durmush’s research interests and passions are focused on Indigenous wellbeing, Indigenous languages and student wellbeing, Indigenous youth, and Indigenous young peoples financial wellbeing and aspirations.