Makayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman from Cootamundra, NSW.

After graduating from Psychology Honours from the ANU in 2019, she worked as a research assistant in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program in the Research School of Population Health. Makayla is now a PhD student and Research Associate in the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing, with much of her work based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing.

Makayla is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and taking a strengths-based and decolonial approach to health and wellbeing.