Dr Lilly Brown is an educator, facilitator, researcher, executive and non-executive director. She is currently the part-time Chief Executive Officer of Magabala Books, a community controlled and award winning First Nations publishing house. 

Lilly is driven to support organisations and individuals to strengthen both their capacity to value, see clearly, engage with, and respond to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In doing so, she has taught in higher education as a lecturer for over a decade and worked with organisations and institutions across the not-for-profit, government, corporate, arts and culture, and education sectors on the development of practices of racial literacy and cultural safety. Lilly’s work responds to and is informed by her relationships with different communities across Australia, including with Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal young people and their families. 

Lilly spent her early years on the unceded lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people and belongs to the Gumbaynggirr people of the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She currently lives on her partner’s and children’s ancestral lands in Rubibi/Broome on Yawuru Country in Western Australia.