Dr Elizabeth Strakosch is a white settler scholar whose work examines the dynamics of race and settler colonialism in public policy, and is senior lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She is currently an ARC DECRA fellow, researching the connections between Indigenous policy and sovereign conflict across the liberal settler colonies. Liz is a co-director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, a board member of the Institute for Postcolonial Studies, and an Executive Officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, which seeks to provide an alternative Jewish perspective advocating for justice and Palestinian freedom.