Samantha is a Wiradjuri woman, living and working on stolen Wurundjeri Country. She is an Associate Lecturer in the Aboriginal Studies Department at La Trobe University as well as the Indigenous Post-graduate Engagement Project Officer at Gabra Biik, Wurruwila Wutja Research Centre. Her research areas of interest are Decolonisation, Indigenous Nation-(re)building and the violence of imperialism and settler colonialism from theory to practice, with a specialisation in Zionist ideology.