Summer is a Yorta Yorta Woman who grew up in Lake Macquarie near Newcastle. She has worked in Aboriginal affairs at the National level and has strong professional connections across the country in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service sector. She specializes in health policy, qualitative research and communications. Summer is a writer with Croakey and is the Co-convener of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group an Associate Consultant with Cox Inall and Ridgeway and is an Honorary Associate at Sydney University. She has worked across the country in a variety of different capacities with a number of Universities, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, Tafe NSW, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and the Victorian and New South Wales state affiliates, National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, the Heart Foundation, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, NSW Departments of Health and the Commonwealth Department of Health. She has a Bachelor of Social Science from Macquarie University, A Master of Public Health Advance from the University of Wollongong and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.