Indigo Willing is an early career researcher who loves supporting, promoting and learning from Asian diasporic communities, and how they define their heritages and constructions of belonging. She has been fortunate to be involved with a number of collaborative film festivals, writing and research activities on these themes with some great mentors and peers from these and other communities, and is very grateful for these opportunities. She has been a researcher at The University of Queensland, where she graduated with a doctorate in sociology in 2010. She also has a MA and BA (Film Major) from The University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate from the McDonald College School of Performing Arts. She is also a former Rockefeller Fellow in Humanities at The University of Massachusetts, Boston 2002/3 studying in their Vietnamese Diaspora project with writers, creatives and researchers from around the world, and her work with the Adopted Vietnamese International network was recognised with a Medal in the Order of Australia in 2006. (Source: http://www.peril.com.au/2012/qa-sky-crompton/ )
