Dr Tui Crumpen

2022 Cohort

Pronouns: she/her

Tui is building systems to navigate and bridge the cultural interface in First Nation and Australian institutional and organisational contexts, so that Indigenous people can thrive.

Tui is a Torres Strait Islander, based in Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria, Goulburn Murray region, Australia where she is Director of the Kaiela Institute, a First Nations-led analysis and policy think tank. She has a BA Honours (Sociology) and a Master of Health Social Science, and is a PhD Candidate and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne.

Tui draws on a deep connection and understanding of institutions and social organisation alongside her PhD focus on national Indigenous representative bodies. She has assisted organisations to navigate the cultural interface and develop structures that can help to bridge cultural gaps. She has expertise in program delivery, strategic planning and partnership facilitation with 20 years governance experience across mostly Indigenous organisations.

“My passion is seeing Indigenous people thrive with all our diversity, ideas and capabilities ”

Social change work

Tui’s social change work builds on the Invincible Spirit and Aboriginal leadership legacy of the Goulburn Murray by looking at organisational structures and systems that can naturally grow and develop emerging leaders. It focuses on creating investment and commitment that supports leaders to question, rethink and act to collaborate on strategic approaches that build a strong future for their communities.