Hayley McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman born and raised in Rockhampton, Central Queensland. Her work is centred on community, relationality and convening new collectives to rethink education. She is the co-founder and CEO of The National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, Co-Chair of Learning Creates Australia and board director for a number of non-profit organisations.

She brings over 10 years of experience working across Indigenous policy and training, and has worked on education campaigns and initiatives with young people, coalitions and organisations from around the world.