Welcome to the Watertrust Board, Kinjia
Watertrust is pleased to welcome
Kinjia Munkara-Murray to the Board.
In speaking with Kinjia, what comes through quickly is a grounded mix of science, field experience and a strong sense of what decisions need to look like in the real world. She is a proud Tiwi and Rembarrnga woman, and she sees that cultural perspective as something she carries into her work and into the boardroom in a practical way, with a clear focus on responsibility and genuine outcomes.
Before her current role, Kinjia worked with GHD as an aquatic ecologist. A big part of that work was out in the field, monitoring and measuring waterway health across metropolitan Melbourne and other parts of Victoria. That on-ground experience has shaped how she thinks about water and environment decisions, not as abstract debates, but as choices that need to make sense now and still make sense later.
Kinjia now works at Melbourne Water, in a role that sits at the intersection of waterways management and working alongside Traditional Owners. When asked how she describes what she does, she keeps it simple, Indigenous ecologist or Indigenous scientist, which is a very effective way of capturing both what she does and the lens she brings to it.
Kinjia is looking forward to contributing to Watertrust’s purpose and approach, and learning from the depth and breadth of experience around the Watertrust board table.
One small human detail to finish. If you want to see Kinjia light up, ask her about ants. She warns us it’s a rabbit hole she can happily disappear down.
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