Dr Kelly Menzel is a proud Ngadjuri woman with ancestral connections to Bundjalung Nation, and is the Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University. She seeks to expose the causative factors of institutional racism, which, despite policies of diversity and inclusion, continue to exacerbate the socioeconomic, educational and health gaps between Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous populations, and explore the possibilities of reforms that may facilitate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples social mobility through professional advancement and achievement.