She is of Irish and Scottish descent and grew up on Noongar country in the south-west of Western Australia. Her PhD from La Trobe University examined racism and the role of the Australian state in country New South Wales. She has taught Australian Indigenous studies at the University of the Sunshine Coast and La Trobe University. Her research interests include ageing, anti-racist pedagogy, human rights, racism and the settler-colonial and contemporary state in Australia and rural health. Lucinda has worked with Aunty Judi Wickes on the history of exemption for more than seventeen years and Aunty Kella Robinson for five years.