Dr. Michelle Evans, originally from the Hunter Valley NSW, is a Bathurst based academic, writer, facilitator and cultural producer. Michelle holds a Senior Lectureship in Leadership at Charles Sturt University and is a Research Fellow at Melbourne Business School and Fellow of the Research Centre for Leadership in Action at NYU. Michelle leads Australia’s first Indigenous Business Master Class series - MURRA - established to skill up Indigenous entrepreneurs. Michelle is a Fulbright Scholar (2013); a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Co-operative and Community Based Economy at the University of Victoria, Canada (2012); and is Trustee of the Yvonne Cohen Award for Indigenous Creative Young People.