Professor Pat Dudgeon is a Bardi woman from the Kimberley area of Western Australia and is Australia’s first Aboriginal psychologist. Pat is recognised as being among the leading world experts on Indigenous psychology, social and emotional wellbeing, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention. She is a Research Fellow at the School of Indigenous Studies, Chief Investigator of the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing Project, and the Director of the National Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Western Australia. Pat has held consecutive leadership roles over the course of her distinguished career, including Inaugural Chair of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association, Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission, Co-Chair of the national ministerial Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Advisory Group, and founding member of Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia. Among Pat’s notable publications are Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principle and a practice textbook, the National Empowerment Project, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation project.