Professor Kathomi Gatwiri is Professor in Social Work in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University. Professor Gatwiri is Immediate Past President of the peak body Australian Women & Gender studies Association (AWGSA) and a practising psychotherapist. Kathomi is one of Australia’s leading Afro-diasporic scholars whose award-winning interdisciplinary research investigates the intersecting topics of racial trauma, belonging, blackness, and migranthood. Since being awarded her PhD in 2017, she has attracted over $1,300,000 in competitive research funding and published over 70 traditional and non-traditional research outputs including the books African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies and Afrodiasporic identities in Australia. 

Professor Gatwiri has received numerous awards for excellence in research and community service including a Vice-Chancellor’s award in Research Excellence and Outstanding Community Impact (2022), a Vice Chancellor Early Career Researcher Award for outstanding research achievement (2019) and Community Impact Award as “Kenyan of the year” (2017). She is the Founder and Director of Healing Together, a service that provides accessible, culturally sensitive therapeutic support for people impacted by racial trauma and Femicide Count-Kenya  a platform that collates reported deaths of Kenyan women who have been killed through violence.