Tracey Bunda is a Goenpul/Wakka Wakka woman - a Goori woman from Queensland. Her career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education began in 1986 at the then Koori Program at the Gippsland Institute in Victoria. Since that time she has worked as the Convenor of the Weemala Centre-Australian Catholic University, the Director of the Wollotuka Centre at Newcastle University, the Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education, located at the Ngunnawal Centre at the University of Canberra and is the current Director of the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, Flinders University, South Australia.

As a Goori woman educator, Tracey is critically conscious of how Aboriginal people's cultural identification, needs and desires can be maintained in sites that are white, dominant and resistant to Aboriginal peoples. Her current research interests focus on the positioning of Aboriginal life-experiences as the theoretical framework for Aboriginal people's engagement in higher education so as to provide a critical and alternative reading of the university. Her objective is to develop knowledge that centres the Aboriginal voice to provide counter-constructions of white institutions, (predominately educational) that will transform the institution and permit Aboriginal liberation.