Dr Francis Bobongie-Harris is an Australian South Sea Islander and Torres Strait Islander with community connections to Mackay, Queensland and Malaita, Solomon Islands. She is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at QUT. Her research focuses on Indigenous Education in Australia and the Pacific and Australian South Sea Islander Policy, History and Cultural studies. She specialises in ethnographic, narrative, community – led and participatory research methodologies.

Francis wants to see all girls succeed and reach their full potential and is passionate about girls education both in Australia and across the Pacific.

She is a wife to Eddie and mum to two beautiful girls Lejla and Tallullah. They split their time between Queensland, Australia and Washington DC in the USA