Sana Nakata

Sana Nakata is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University. A Torres Strait Islander, she was one of the first two Indigenous Australian residential students to commence at Trinity College in 2001. Since then, she has trained in the law and political theory of the Western tradition, and her research focuses upon the politics of childhood, Indigenous policy and governance. She has held multiple Australian Research Council grants, written and edited books including Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy (Routledge, 2015) and published in leading international and Australian journals, including Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Public Law Review, and Australian Journal of Political Science.

She lives on Wurundjeri country with partner Daniel and two children, Lucas and Liam.

Sana Chairs the Pathways School Business Committee.