Dr Susan Sisko is a registered psychologist, clinical supervisor and lecturer at a major university. She is engaged in research with the Challenging Racism Project | Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre at Western Sydney University. With a background in counselling and psychology, Susan brings her clinical expertise to academia. Susan strives to develop meaningful learning communities, which reflects powerful dimensions of feminist and multicultural pedagogy.

Amongst other publications, Susan is author and co-editor of Cultural Responsiveness in Counselling and Psychology (2021). The book focuses on Australian populations and systemic structures with a social justice framework. Susan is passionate about changing the debate in the field by moving away from cultural competence based on a Eurocentric position and focus on social justice and systemic issues – ultimately shifting blame from vulnerable and non-dominant groups to exploring systemics issues as related to quality of care and the inequity gap in accessing mental health services.