Dominique Chen is a Gamilaroi woman and interdisciplinary researcher living on Jinibara Country in Southeast Queensland. She lectures within the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, and is undertaking PhD research at the University of Technology Sydney in the area of relational creative practice and urban-based Aboriginal food and medicine growing. She is mother, artist, writer, and maker, and is passionate about the role of creative practice in making positive contributions to community, culture, and Country. She is a co-founder of Yuruwan, an Aboriginal-run not-for-profit supporting learning opportunities for culturally centred, urban-based food and medicine growing, by and for Aboriginal people.