Dr. Jacinta Walsh, a Yawuru/Jaru/Kitja woman from Western Australia with English and Irish heritage, mother of three sons, Indigenous Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) and Lecturer with the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre (MISC) in Melbourne. She serves on the Victorian Stolen Generations Reparations Package Advisory Committee and the First Nations Biography Working Party (FNBWP) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). Her PhD thesis compassionately narrates seven generations of spirit and colonisation from her family's perspective and underscores the importance of remembering a family's love for themselves and their ancestral lineage through historical research.
 
Jacinta is an adoptee who advocates for the rights of First Nations youth in juvenile justice and out-of-home care systems, promotes Indigenous family perspectives in academia, and Indigenous family access to all the archives, including historical textual records, that hold generations of family memory. Her work emphasises trauma and culturally informed truth-telling, reconciliation, healing and ceremonies of celebration through life story research and writing.

Jacinta has received several awards, including the 2025 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellowship Award, 2024 Monash University Indigenous Higher Degree Research Excellence Award, the 2024 Wilhelm, Martha, and Otto Rechnitz Memorial Fund Grant Award, the 2022 Jennifer Straus Fellowship Grant, the 2022 Feminist Fathers Bursary, and the 2021 Marcia and Henry Pinskier Family Bursary.